Since September 30 2017 how many uber Drivers have had their licence revoked for sexual assault

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TfL Ref: FOI-4611-1718 and FOI-4727-1718

Thank you for your requests received by Transport for London (TfL) asking for information about revocations and prosecutions.

Your request have 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.

Unfortunately, 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 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.

Please note that under Regulation 5(2) of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004, we are permitted to aggregate requests where they relate to any extent to the same or similar information that are received within a sixty working day period, and we consider that this is the case with your requests.

To locate the information you have requested, we would need to manually review the case files of each instances of a sexual assault revocation and then cross reference this with other records held to determine whether any drivers were recorded on our operator upload system as working for Uber. We would need to further explore the specific incident and determine whether the driver was taking trips for Uber at the time of the incident in question. For example, the incident on which the revocation was based could predate the time a driver featured on the operator upload system as working for Uber but the only way to determine this would be to manually review all of our records on each incident in detail and then collate accordingly.

We estimate that providing this information would exceed the limit outlined above and, in some cases, it may even be apparent that after an exhaustive search we may not hold some of the information. In addition to this, we would need to review the records of our ‘assistance dog refusal’ prosecution data and then manually collate a list of the operators through which the relevant trip was booked. This would, of course, cause additional processing time.

To help bring your request within the cost limit, you may wish to limit your request to the question in FOI-4727-1718 as the operator detail is more easily accessible due to the fact that the prosecution relates to a booked trip. Alternatively, you may wish to narrow the timeframe to a more manageable level.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Lee Hill

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

FOI-4611-1718

Since September 30 2017 how many uber Drivers have had their licence revoked for sexual assault

FOI-4727-1718

Between February 2015 and November 2017, You have successfully prosecuted 25 minicab drivers for refusing assistance dogs.. Can you provide the names of the operators the drivers were working for

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