I would please like to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about Performance Ratings as part of the TfL PRP process where senior management and or HR have reviewed the end of year rating/score awarded to an individual. In what department or directorate did the review take place and what was the outcome in any of the cases? Also, can you please give me information about pay alignments exercises within TfL where the pay ranges of staff in the same grade was deemed disproportionate. In what department or directorate did the review take place and what was the outcome in any of the cases?

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TfL Ref: FOI-2451-1920

Thank you for your request of 13^th November 2019 asking for information about TfL staff performance ratings.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

“I would please like to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about Performance Ratings as part of the TfL PRP process where senior management and or HR have reviewed the end of year rating/score awarded to an individual. In what department or directorate did the review take place and what was the outcome in any of the cases?

Also, can you please give me information about pay alignments exercises within TfL where the pay ranges of staff in the same grade was deemed disproportionate. In what department or directorate did the review take place and what was the outcome in any of the cases?”

I can confirm that we hold the information you require. However, the information is not held centrally by our Human Resources team. Rather, it is held at the local level within each individual team. In order to answer your questions for the entirety of TfL (which employs around 27,000 staff) we would need to source data from across the organisation, a task we believe could only be achieved at disproportionate cost. 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, and then locating, retrieving or extracting it from other information, would exceed the appropriate limit of £450. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described – equivalent to 18 hours work.

To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit you may wish to consider narrowing or reframing its scope to focus more specifically on the information that is of most importance to you. For example, you may want to focus on a specific area of TfL and for a defined period of time only. If you do choose to submit a refined request you should note that under Data Protection law (which is enshrined within s40 of the FOI Act) we would be unable to release any information where it would allow a third party (i.e. any individual other than yourself) to be identified and where such identification would be deemed unlawful or unfair.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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