Request ID: FOI-2601-2122 Date published: 22 February 2022
You asked
Thank you for your email of 3 February.
Your information was passed onto the constituent.
They have requested that TfL provides certified minutes of the May 2019 board meeting when the decision was made to introduce the proposal, and also the date when the terms and conditions were updated. Please would you send these over to us?
We answered
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 4th February 2022 asking for information about the 60+ Oyster Card.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act / Environmental Information Regulations and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked that “TfL provides certified minutes of the May 2019 board meeting when the decision was made to introduce the proposal, and also the date when the terms and conditions were updated. Please would you send these over to us?” There are no such minutes. The decision was not made nor ratified at a board meeting as implied by the question. Rather, the decision was taken by our Payments team as part of their usual day to day work. The Deputy Mayor for Transport was notified of the decision on 13th May 2019 and the changes to the terms and conditions were made on 1st August 2019. The rationale for the change was to: (a) mitigate the risk of misuse of the concession, and; (b) to make a contribution to the cost of running the scheme. In relation to (a) above, note that when the scheme was launched in 2012 the average length of validity for a 60+ card was around one year. At the time of the changes in 2019 this figure had risen to six years and two months. This growth in the length of validity increased the likelihood of a 60+ card being incorrectly used by someone who is no longer resident in the London area, and hence the decision was made to update the controls originally put in place in 2012 to ensure they remain adequate.
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Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
