What were the total costs of employing temporary staff by Taxi and Private Hire Financial year 2015/2016?( Including Agency fees, Employers NIC and other related costs)

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TfL Ref:2568/2569/2570/2571/2597-1718

Thank you for your emails received by us on 7 and 8 December 2017 asking for information about Taxi and Private Hire (TPH) staff. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

Your requests have 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 the following:

FOI Request 2568-1718

For financial year 2016/17 How many temporary staff were by employed Taxi and Private Hire?

Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking the largest ever overhaul of our organisation to provide the most efficient and cost effective transport service for Londoners. We have already reduced management layers and bureaucracy and merged functions in other areas to eliminate duplication and reliance on expensive agency staff.

In 2016/17, there was an average number of 108 temporary staff employed in TPH per period.

FOI Request 2569-1718

For financial years 2015/16 How many temporary staff were by employed Taxi and Private Hire?

There was an average of 75 temporary staff employed per period in 2015/16.

FOI Request 2570-1718

What were the total costs of employing temporary staff by Taxi and Private Hire

Financial Year 2016/2017?( Including Agency fees, Employers NIC and other related costs)

Based upon a mean average, the cost of employing a temporary member of staff in 2016/17 was £35,000 per annum.

Total expenditure on temporary staff in 2016/17 was £3,780,370.

FOI Request 2597-1718

What were the total costs of employing temporary staff by Taxi and Private Hire

Financial year 2015/2016?( Including Agency fees, Employers NIC and other related costs)

Based upon a mean average, the cost of employing a temporary member of staff in 2015/16 was £31,000 per annum.

Total expenditure on temporary staff in 2015/16 was £2,384,394.

FOI Request 2571-1718

For financial years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 What was the total cost staff made redundant by Taxi and Private Hire?

We have located details of two voluntary severance payments during this time period. As disclosure of the total sum paid would enable either individual to determine precisely how much the other received, in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) this personal data has been withheld, 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. Redundancy does not relate to an employee’s official functions and responsibilities, but instead signals the end of the relationship between TfL and the individual, which carries a strong expectation of privacy. There is a public interest in the expenditure of public funds, and this interest is now met by the publication in the Annual Report http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-annual-report-2015-16.pdf of the number and cost of compulsory and voluntary severance termination packages agreed during the year. This publication is in accordance with Section 3 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, and by the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, in which Parliament has set out its expectation for the appropriate level of public sector transparency in relation to severance payments.

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.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Jasmine Howard

FOI Case Officer

Information Governance

Transport For London

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