Request ID: FOI-4096-2324 Date published: 01 March 2024
You asked
Under the Freedom of information Act, please can you tell me how much money TfL spent on cycling in each year since 2000.
Please can you also provide me with the raw data used to construct the chart on p.21 of the Cycle Action Plan (Cycling-action-plan-2 (tfl.gov.uk)).
To clarify the second part of my request, I would be interested to see the calculation of cycle risk in each year - so I am looking for the number of casualties in each given year and the amount of cycle miles travelled in each given year.
We answered
TfL Ref: EIR-4096-2324 Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 9th February 2024 asking for information about cycle infrastructure spending. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) and our information access policy. Specifically you asked: “Under the Freedom of information Act, please can you tell me how much money TfL spent on cycling in each year since 2000. Please can you also provide me with the raw data used to construct the chart on p.21 of the Cycle Action Plan (Cycling-action-plan-2 (tfl.gov.uk)). To clarify the second part of my request, I would be interested to see the calculation of cycle risk in each year - so I am looking for the number of casualties in each given year and the amount of cycle miles travelled in each given year.” I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. In answer to your first question, this element of the request is being refused under Regulation 12(4)(b) of the EIR on the basis that it is “manifestly unreasonable”. The information has not been collated before and there is no quick, efficient or automated way of doing so. Your request is broad in scope, referring simply to spending on “cycle infrastructure” in the title of the request and “cycling” in the body of the request itself (which, in its narrowest interpretation, would still include spending on the cycle hire scheme; the implementation of cycle lanes; cycle parking infrastructure at stations or on the road network; and no doubt other areas) and covers a 24 year timeframe. There is no single source for this information, and just trying to determine exactly what is held and where would be a convoluted task, notwithstanding the need to then source it. We see no particular wider public interest in expending the necessary resource to answer such a broad question. You may therefore wish to refine the request to narrow its scope, focussing on the information that is of most importance to you. For example, you may wish to specify exactly what infrastructure you are interested in, and to consider narrowing the timeframe. In answer to your second question, the attached table includes the raw data behind the graph on P21 of the Cycling Action Plan 2. This also includes the formulas used to produce the graph. 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
