TfL Ref: FOI-2260-1617
Thank you for your email received by us on 16 February 2017 asking for information about ICT documents. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.
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:
1. ICT Strategy- I require the document that hold future plan and strategy of the organisation’s ICT department.
Please find attached the Technology and Data Strategy Plan.
2. ICT Departmental Business Plan.
Attached is the list of strategies for the Technology and Data Strategy Plan.
3. ICT Technical Strategy.
See the attached strategy.
4. ICT Structure
Attached is the ICT Organisation Chart. Please note that the structure is undergoing transformation therefore the attached ICT Organisation Chart is subject to change.
5. ICT Capital budgets and programmes.
See the attached Business Plan and the IM AIMS paper.
Can you please provide me with the latest document to date the organisation holds and please state this within the response. If no information is provided, I will contact the organisation back to verify that this is the latest version of the document.
As above.
AN example of this would be an ICT strategy 2012-2017, in some cases, this is acceptable, but on the foot of the document, it states 2012. We require the latest documents; please communicate this to the information holders.
As above.
If the organisation doesn’t have a document that covers the current financial year, please provide me with information (month) on when this document will be published or updated. In the response please provide us with the previous document along with publish month of the future document.
See attached.
If you feel that your organisation or the department hold other documents that relate to my request or the document above please send them accordingly.
Some organisations within the region may title the document something else, which includes IM&T Strategy, IS Strategy, Technology Strategy and ICT Strategic Plan.
Lead member: Cabinet Member for ICT and Telecommunications come under. Please can you provide me with their direct contact details including their Full Name, Actual Job Title, Contact Number and Direct Email Address?
Vernon Everitt is the Managing Director – Customers, Communication and Technology. Please see the link below for more details:
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/how-we-work/corporate-governance/chief-officers
Please note that in accordance with TfL’s obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) we are not providing his contact number or direct e-mail address, as required by section 40(2) of the FOI Act. This is because disclosure of this personal data would be a breach of the DPA, specifically the first principle of the DPA 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 of Schedule 2 of the Data Protection Act which would make the processing ‘fair’.
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If you wish to contact him please do so using one of our contact centres: https://tfl.gov.uk/help-and-contact/.
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.
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Yours sincerely
Paulina Tuffour
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
