Dear Sir/Madam I would be grateful if you could provide the following information: (1) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL as a whole over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (2) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL who left TfL (regardless of the reason) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (3) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL whose full-time, permanent employment contracts were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (4) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (5) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division who left TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division (regardless of the reason, and even if they left to take up another job within TfL) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (6) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division over the period 2013-2018 whose full-time, permanent employment contracts with TfL were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and Breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (7) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin). (8) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team who left TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team (regardless of the reason and even if they left to take up another job within TfL) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin) (9) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team over the period 2013-2018 whose full-time, permanent employment contracts with TfL were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and Breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin)

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TfL Ref: FOI-3178-1819

Thank you for your request of 20^th February 2019 asking for information about staff employed / that have left the employment of TfL, broken down by ethnicity and by the Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Team.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. This is provided in the tables below.

You should note the following:

• TfL does not collect/record separately the “race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin” of staff as asked for in your request. Rather, we only record the race/ethnicity of staff, as shown in the tables below;
• It is not possible to run headcount data accurately over a time range, so the headcount data is a snapshot at the end of the fiscal period closest to the end of the calendar year (dated between the 3^rd and 9^th January depending on the exact data in question). This snapshot has been used as the headcount for the entire fiscal year. The data only includes permanent and fixed-term contract employees;
• Leavers reporting is for the yearly range, it is not a snapshot;
• The Taxi & Private Hire division has undergone changes over the years, and we are unable to identify/distinguish between a “Licensing Division” and a “Licensing Applications Teams”. Therefore this aspect of the data relates to the Licensing area over this timeframe. This means Questions 4 – 9 have been combined into 3 answers instead of 6;
• Under section 40(2) of the FOI Act (the exemption relating to “personal data”) some of the data has been removed where it relates to 10 or fewer people. This has been done where the subset of people to which it relates is also relatively small, meaning that staff could be identified along with the manner of their departure, which would be unfair on those staff members and hence a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), and specifically the first principle of the DPA which requires all processing of personal data to be fair and lawful (using a fictitious example to illustrate the point: if the data showed that only 3 people had left the team in a given year, and two of those had retired and one had been dismissed, then it is highly probable that any members of that team who saw such data would be able to identify the person who had been dismissed). Where such data has been removed it is shown as “<10”.

Question (1) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL as a whole over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

All TfL	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
White	12077	12273	12174	11617	11550	12757
BAME	6043	6212	6238	6039	6707	7161
Prefer not to say	1220	1218	1209	1086	1303	1275
Unknown	2414	2245	2777	3589	3279	2800

Question (2) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL who left TfL (regardless of the reason) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

All TfL	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
White	442	572	526	974	824	830
BAME	141	165	150	475	283	318
Prefer not to say	41	63	67	147	93	77
Unknown	99	108	152	244	289	270

Question (3) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL whose full-time, permanent employment contracts were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

All TfL White	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	5	2	7	5	5	2
Dismissed Failed Training	0	2	0	0	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	1	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	20	19	26	23	23	11
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	22	21	25	20	24	25
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	36	46	54	42	54	71
Unsatisfactory probation	1	7	8	0	3	4
Subtotal	84	98	120	90	109	113

All TfL BAME	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	5	3	4	5	1	3
Dismissed Failed Training	4	3	2	0	0	2
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	1	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	23	17	21	12	22	15
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	5	5	6	2	8	12
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	8	25	18	16	12	23
Unsatisfactory probation	0	2	2	2	3	4
Subtotal	46	55	54	37	46	59

All TfL Prefer Not To Say	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	0	0	0	1	1	0
Dismissed Failed Training	0	1	0	2	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	2	3	2	0	1	2
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	2	3	0	1	1	2
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	7	10	6	2	5	5
Unsatisfactory probation	0	1	4	0	0	0
Subtotal	11	18	12	6	8	9

All TfL Unknown	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	2	2	4	1	4	3
Dismissed Failed Training	2	0	1	5	10	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	6	3	7	4	4	12
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	2	2	0	1	1	4
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	3	3	3	3	6	8
Unsatisfactory probation	4	1	3	14	13	9
Subtotal	19	11	18	28	38	36

Question (4) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin), and;

Question (7) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team over the period 2013-2018 by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

Taxi and Private Hire	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
White	33	35	30	37	28	31
BAME	19	18	27	24	31	33
Prefer not to say	6	4	4	4	4	4
Unknown	18	18	21	45	12	11

Question (5) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division who left TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division (regardless of the reason, and even if they left to take up another job within TfL) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin), and;

Question (8) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team who left TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team (regardless of the reason and even if they left to take up another job within TfL) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin over the period 2013-2018. (Total and breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

Taxi and Private Hire	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
White	<10	0	<10	<10	0	0
BAME	0	<10	<10	0	0	<10
Prefer not to say	0	1	0	0	0	0
Unknown	<10	<10	0	<10	<10	<10

Question (6) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Division over the period 2013-2018 whose full-time, permanent employment contracts with TfL were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and Breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin), and;

Question (9) Number of permanent full-time employees employed by the TfL (Taxi & PHV) Licensing Applications Team over the period 2013-2018 whose full-time, permanent employment contracts with TfL were terminated by TfL (incl. reason for termination) by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin. (Total and Breakdown for each year by race, nationality, ethnic origin and national origin):

TPH White	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed Failed Training	0	0	0	0	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	0	0	<10	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	0	0	0	<10	0	0
Unsatisfactory probation	0	0	0	0	0	0
Subtotal	0	0	<10	<10	0	0

TPH BAME	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed Failed Training	0	0	0	0	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Unsatisfactory probation	0	0	0	0	0	0
Subtotal	0	0	0	0	0	0

TPH Prefer Not To Say	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed Failed Training	0	0	0	0	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Unsatisfactory probation	0	0	0	0	0	0
Subtotal	0	0	0	0	0	0

TPH Unknown	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Compulsory Redundancy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dismissed Failed Training	0	0	0	0	0	0
Displaced after assessment or selection	0	0	0	0	0	0
Summarily Dismissed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – No Alternative Employment	0	0	0	0	0	0
Termination on Medical Grounds – Unfit for Alternative Employment	1	0	0	0	0	0
Unsatisfactory probation	0	0	0	0	0	0
Subtotal	1	0	0	0	0	0

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,

David Wells

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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