Dear Mr. Hill, I'd be grateful if you could supply me with a list of all London Underground stations that underwent temporary closure, including the number of times each station was closed, from January-December 2018 and, separately (or clearly demarcated in your data) from January 2019 until the most recent date for which you have collected data. Could you kindly include a breakdown to show how many of these are due to staff absence and industrial action (please mention if industrial action is counted under staff absence). Providing that the following does not cause this request to exceed the cost limits set out by the Freedom of Information Act: could you please also include a breakdown of how long each closure was for. If you do not already compile your data in this way, please choose a few sensible categories spread evenly across the range of station closure lengths (e.g. 0-10 mins, 10-20 mins, 20-30 mins etc..) Thanks in advance.

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TfL Ref: FOI-3368-1819

Thank you for your email received by Transport for London (TfL) on 11 March 2019.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm we do hold the information you require. You asked:

I'd be grateful if you could supply me with a list of all London Underground stations that underwent temporary closure, including the number of times each station was closed, from January-December 2018 and, separately (or clearly demarcated in your data) from January 2019 until the most recent date for which you have collected data.

Could you kindly include a breakdown to show how many of these are due to staff absence and industrial action (please mention if industrial action is counted under staff absence).

Providing that the following does not cause this request to exceed the cost limits set out by the Freedom of Information Act: could you please also include a breakdown of how long each closure was for. If you do not already compile your data in this way, please choose a few sensible categories spread evenly across the range of station closure lengths (e.g. 0-10 mins, 10-20 mins, 20-30 mins etc..)

Please find the requested information in the attached spreadsheet. As requested, the first tab shows two tables listing all temporary station closures, closures due to staffing and closures due to industrial action in 2018 and 2019 to date.  This is also summarised in the table below:

Year	All Temporary Station Closures	Closures due to Staffing	Closures due to Industrial Action
2018	575	127	1
2019	93	8	0

We capture industrial action separately. We only had one instance where the closure was allocated against industrial action in 2018; the station was overcrowded, caused by a reduced train service on the Piccadilly Line due to Train Operator RMT industrial action rather than station staff industrial action. This is also annotated at the bottom of 2018 table on the first tab. To date in 2019, we have had no closures allocated against industrial action. 

The second tab gives the closure details including location, dates, times, duration and whether the reason was due to staffing or industrial action.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some 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

Eva Hextall

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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