FOI request detail

ULEZ Cameras

Request ID: FOI-2389-2425
Date published: 13 November 2024

You asked

Please could you provide the following information by calendar month for the period from January 2019 until and including October 2024. • How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras were vandalised? • How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras had to be repaired? • How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras had to be replaced? • How much money was spent to replace/repair LEZ/ULEZ cameras? • How much money was spent to replace/repair any other LEZ/ULEZ infrastructure ie. signs • How much money was collected from fines issued to drivers violating LEZ/ULEZ zones?

We answered

Our Ref: FOI-2389-2425

Thank you for your request received on 28 October 2024 asking for information about the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) and Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) and our information access policy. We do hold the information you require. You asked:

Please could you provide the following information by calendar month for the period from January 2019 until and including October 2024.

• How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras were vandalised?

• How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras had to be repaired?

• How many LEZ/ULEZ cameras had to be replaced?

• How much money was spent to replace/repair LEZ/ULEZ cameras?

• How much money was spent to replace/repair any other LEZ/ULEZ infrastructure ie. Signs

In accordance with the EIR, we are not obliged to supply any of the information as it is subject to a statutory exception to the right of access to information under regulations R12(5)(a) – international relations, defence, national security & public safety (in this instance specifically public safety), regulation 12(5)(b) – the course of justice, the ability of a person to receive a fair trial or the ability of the public authority to conduct and inquiry of a criminal or disciplinary nature – (in this instance specifically the course of justice), and regulation 12(5)(e) – confidentially of commercial or industrial information where such confidentiality is provide by law to protect a legitimate economic interest.

Please refer to the decision notices issued by the Information Commissioner regarding the application of these exceptions:

https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2024/4028410/ic-277488-p1r5.pdf

https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2024/4028192/ic-263495-n0p0.pdf

https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2024/4028098/ic-262996-q1d5.pdf

• How much money was collected from fines issued to drivers violating LEZ/ULEZ zones?

We publish information on income generated by all of our Road User Charging schemes in our Annual Report:

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/annual-report

We have also answered several requests for this or similar information. The following requests may be of interest to you, but all of our responses are published on our website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/search?Query=&Sort=date%2Cdesc&TimePeriod=24&PageSize=100:

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0030-2425

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-4666-2324

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-3074-2324

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