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Full Business Cases and One Year After Reports

Request ID: FOI-3012-1819
Date published: 11 March 2019

You asked

Dear Sir or Madam: This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I request that a copy of the following documents or documents containing the following information of the listed projects (See below) be provided to me: 1. Full Business Case (If it was revisited and updated after the investment decision, the Full Business Case at the time of the initial approval) 2. One Year After Report or any documents containing the information on completed (If it has not reached substantial completion, the most recently updated) (1) construction cost, (2) land related cost, (3) finance cost, (4) other significant costs, and (5) date in service. I understand that under the Act I am entitled to a response within 20 working days of your receipt of this request. Some parts of the request may be easier to answer than others. Should this be the case, I request that you release information as soon as possible. If my request is denied in whole or in part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I will also expect you to release all non-exempt material. I reserve the right to appeal your decision to withhold any information or to charge excessive fees. I would prefer to receive the information electronically. If you require any clarification or find any aspect of this Freedom of Information request problematic, I expect you to contact me under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance. Please acknowledge receipt of this request. I look forward to receiving the information in the near future. Yours faithfully, List of Projects Bank (Waterloo & City Entrance): Station Upgrade Bond Street: Station Upgrade Contactless Ticketing on All Modes Excluding Cycle Hire Delivery of 800 New Routemaster Buses Finsbury Park Future Upgrades Including Paddington (Bakerloo Line) Gallions Reach Crossing Growth Station Schemes Including Elephant and Castle, Woolwich and Tottenham Hale London Overground Capacity Improvement Project: Five Car New Growth Funding Including Tottenham Hale Station Upgrade Northern Line Upgrade Silvertown Tunnel Sub-Surface Railway Upgrade Tottenham Court Road: Station Upgrade Tramlink Improvements: Four Additional Trams and Wimbledon Platform Works Victoria and Jubilee Line Capacity Increases Victoria Station

We answered

TfL Ref: 3012-1819

Thank you for your email received by us on 11 February 2019 asking for information about Full Business Cases and One Year After reports for various transport projects.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. You asked for:

1. Full Business Case (If it was revisited and updated after the investment decision, the Full Business Case at the time of the initial approval)

2. One Year After Report or any documents containing the information on completed (If it has not reached substantial completion, the most recently updated) (1) construction cost, (2) land related cost, (3) finance cost, (4) other significant costs, and (5) date in service.

List of Projects

Bank (Waterloo & City Entrance): Station Upgrade

Bond Street: Station Upgrade

Contactless Ticketing on All Modes Excluding Cycle Hire

Delivery of 800 New Routemaster Buses

Finsbury Park

Future Upgrades Including Paddington (Bakerloo Line)

Gallions Reach Crossing

Growth Station Schemes Including Elephant and Castle, Woolwich and Tottenham Hale

London Overground Capacity Improvement Project: Five Car

New Growth Funding Including Tottenham Hale Station Upgrade

Northern Line Upgrade

Silvertown Tunnel

Sub-Surface Railway Upgrade

Tottenham Court Road: Station Upgrade

Tramlink Improvements: Four Additional Trams and Wimbledon Platform Works

Victoria and Jubilee Line Capacity Increases

Victoria Station

I can advise that the Gallions Reach crossing was a potential project being considered under the previous Mayor but was not taken forward by Transport for London (TfL). Therefore, neither a Full Business Case, nor a One Year After report was produced.
The Silvertown Tunnel is currently undertaking a procurement process to form a Public Private Partnership for delivery and operation of the tunnel. Construction has not commenced. The current Outline Business Case is available here. It will be updated to a Full Business Case before award of contract, which is likely to be in the summer 2019.
In accordance with section 21 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply you with a copy of the requested information as it is already accessible to you elsewhere.

We also publish Annual Reports and Business plans that may be of interest via the following links to our website:

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/budget-and-business-plan-past-years

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

Unfortunately, to provide the remainder of 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 a request 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. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.

To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. If you want to refine your request or make a Freedom of Information Act request in future, please bear in mind that the Freedom of Information Act allows you to request recorded information held by us. You should identify the information that you want as clearly and concisely as you can, specifying the types of document that you are looking for. You might also consider limiting your request to a particular period of time, geographical area or specific departments of the organisation.

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Please note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.

In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Yours sincerely

Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
Information Governance
Transport For London

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