TfL Ref: FOI-2030-1617

Thank you for your email received by us on 18 January 2017 asking for information about the TfL Business Plan.

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.

You asked for:

a) the planned annual kilometrage to be operated by London Overground.
b) the planned annual kilometrage to be operated by Docklands Light Railway.
c) the planned annual kilometrage to be operated by TfL Rail / Crossrail.
In each case for each year covered by the Dec 2016 Business Plan (2016/17 - 2021/22).
       
Please see the attached information in response to your request.
           

I would also like to request that TfL provide the agreed alternative presentation of bus network costs. This was requested by the London Assembly Transport Committee as recommendation no.6 in their Oct 2013 report on Bus Services. TfL accepted this recommendation and agreed to publish the information regularly. This was not done in the Dec 2016 Business Plan. For the record I am referring to the info in Table 9, page 79 of the TfL Business Plan 2014.
I would also like to know why TfL did not publish this information given the commitment made to the Assembly Transport Committee.

Our goal is to ensure that we publish transparent and accessible finance information. A key component of doing so is ensuring that we report our financial information in a consistent manner. Therefore we have published the Bus Subsidy table as requested but this has been completed on a consistent base with the Business Plan Bus Financial Table on page 53.

You should note that the only variable to the previously reported bus subsidy table is that the new table includes Indirect Costs.

The decision was taken to report on a consistent base for all Business areas in the Business Plan and therefore the Bus Subsidy Table was not provided as per the Business Plan 2014.

Please see the attached information in response to your request.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Paulina Tuffour
FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London