Dear Transport for London, I am writing to ask whether it would be possible for you to give me the following information simply for personal use. 1) The documents relating to the newest tender agreement (ITT, Stand arrangements etc) which was announced on Thursday 15th November 2018 for route 240. 2) The documents relating to the newest tender agreement announced this year for route 292. 3) Any internal correspondence (email, records of meetings etc) within your organisation since August 28th 2018 relating to the renaming of stop Pentavia Retail Park (QZ) along route 113. 4) An updates including timescales for completion, up to date drawings, and other information relating to plans for: the Mill Hill Circus redevelopment scheme and the relocation of bus stops Shakespeare Road (towards Hendon) and Frith Lane (towards Edgware) in NW7. Thank you for your assistance with my enquiries. If the cost exceeds £450 or you need further clarification on what I am asking for please do not hesitate to contact me by replying to this email.

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Our ref: FOI-2170-1819/GH

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18 November 2018 asking for information about buses.

Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy.

I can confirm that we do 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 requests 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. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.

In Question 3 of your request you ask for ‘Any internal correspondence (email, records of meetings etc) within your organisation since August 28th 2018 relating to the renaming of stop Pentavia Retail Park (QZ) along route 113’.  A search for emails containing the keyword "Pentavia retail park" was stopped at a fifth of the way through, having reached 615 hits. It is not unreasonable to conclude that, had the search been left to continue, the total result would have been over 2,000 hits. We would need to retrieve all of the emails and manually check them to ascertain if they were relevant to your question and this would take an excessive amount of time.

In Question 4 you ask for ‘An updates including timescales for completion, up to date drawings, and other information relating to plans for: the Mill Hill Circus redevelopment scheme and the relocation of bus stops Shakespeare Road (towards Hendon) and Frith Lane (towards Edgware) in NW7’. We assume you mean ‘any updates’, but you have not provided a time frame. You also have requested ‘other information relating to the plans…’ which is very broad and searching for all relevant information again would exceed the cost limit.

To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your requests to concentrate on matters which are important to you.

Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.

If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Graham Hurt

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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