Our refs: FOI-2210-1617, FOI-2211-1617 & FOI-2215-1617

Thank you for your three emails received on 10 and 11 February 2017.

Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy.

Our records show that you have made 12 FOI requests to TfL in a continuous period of 43 working days (excluding bank holidays) up to and including the date of your most recent request of 11 February 2017. Because of this we are now applying an aggregate cost limit to the three requests which remain outstanding.

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 of £450 provided for in the Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.

We have estimated that, to date, it has already cost over the ‘appropriate limit’ to respond to your earlier requests, as we need to consider the time taken in locating, retrieving and compiling the information you requested.

As this overall cost exceeds the £450 limit, we are applying Regulation 5(1) of the Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, which permits us to take into account requests made by the same person which relate, to any extent, to the same or similar information, in this case all of your requests appear to relate in some way to London Underground.

Please note any further requests that we receive within a 60 working day timeframe may also be subject to consideration under Section 12 of FOI.

We recognise the need for openness and transparency by public authorities, however, responding to continuous and seemingly random requests places a burden on the relevant area of TfL and can prevent members of staff from carrying out their normal durties. If you wish to make Freedom of Information requests in the future, we suggest that you limit the number of requests by concentrating on matters which are of the most importance to you.

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