Request ID: FOI-1825-2223 Date published: 22 December 2022
You asked
Please could I request, under the Freedom of Information Act, details of all meetings held between any TfL official working on the ULEZ consultation and any member of the Mayor of London’s office from 1st July 2022 to 1st October 2022. Please provide emails, agendas, minutes and any other documents from the meetings.
To assist you with this request, members of the Mayor’s office include but are not limited to: the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the Deputy Mayor for Transport Seb Dance, the Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy Shirley Rodrigues, the Mayor's Chief of Staff David Bellamy, the Mayor’s Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Watts, the Mayoral Director of Political and Public Affairs Felicity Appleby, the Mayoral Director of Communications Sarah Brown, or the Mayoral Director of Operations Ali Picton.
We answered
Our Ref: FOI-1825-2223
Thank you for request received on 1 November 2022 asking for information about meetings between TfL and the Mayor’s Office regarding the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) consultation.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.
Please find the requested information attached. Please note that information that is not related to the ULEZ expansion consultation has been removed.
In accordance with our obligations under Data Protection legislation, some personal data has been removed, as required by section 40(2) of the FOI Act. This is because disclosure of this personal data would be a breach of the legislation, specifically the first principle of Article 5 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation which requires all processing of personal data to be fair and lawful. It would not be fair to disclose this personal information when the individuals have no expectation it would be disclosed and TfL has not satisfied one of the conditions which would make the processing ‘fair’.
This exemption to the right of access to information is an absolute exemption and not subject to an assessment of whether the public interest favours use of the exemption.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please feel free to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Gemma Jacob Senior FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
