Request ID: FOI-2725-2223 Date published: 09 February 2023
You asked
Dear Transport for London,
Can you please respond with Transport for London's current monthly revenue and profit/loss split into each area as follows:
London Underground
DLR
Overground
Elizabeth Line
Trams
Buses
We answered
Our ref: FOI-2725/6/7/8-2223/GH
Thank you for your four requests received by Transport for London (TfL) on 24 January 2023.
Your requests have been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
I can confirm that we do hold the information you require. However, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with requests if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
For example, you have asked ‘Please can you release all outsourced construction/engineering/maintenance labour contracts on fleet, track, engineering, signals, REW and TMU’. Searching for this information,over an unspecified time period and across the TfL network would be a huge task. You may find information of interest via the Contract Register: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your requests to concentrate on matters which are important to you.
Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
