Who makes the keys and locks for London Underground
Request ID: FOI-1900-2425 Date published: 04 October 2024
You asked
Hello,
I would like to know who manufactures both keys and locks for the London Underground
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1900-2425 Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on16 September2024 asking for information about London Underground locks and keys.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
I can confirm that we hold the information you require. However, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. We estimate that it would take in excess of 18 hours to ascertain whether we hold the information you have requested which, calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described, exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’. There is no central repository for the information you have requested. A significant amount of work and time would be required to locate and extract information that would fall within the scope of your request, and then collate any relevant information we may hold.
To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to narrow its scope to focus on matters that are of most importance to you so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal. Yours sincerely, Mary Abidakun FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
