FOI request detail

C-Charge and T-Charge

Request ID: FOI-4756-1718
Date published: 04 April 2018

You asked
- How many vehicles were registered entering the Congestion Charge Zone in June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2017, and January, February 2018? Please give each month’s data separately - How many vehicles were registered entering the Congestion Charge Zone in November, December 2017 and January and February 2018 that didn’t conform to the minimum T-charge standards? Please give each month’s data separately - How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge in June, July, August, September 2017? Please give each month’s data separately - How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge in November 2017, December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018? Please give each month’s data separately - How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge AND the T-Charge November 2017, December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018

We answered

          

TfL Ref: 475601718

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 5 March 2018 asking for information about the Congestion Charge and the T Charge.

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 the information you require. Our responses are as follows:

  1. How many vehicles were registered entering the Congestion Charge Zone in June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2017, and January, February 2018? Please give each month’s data separately

This information is available online as part of the Mayor’s City Dashboard data on the GLA website: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/vehicles-entering-c-charge-zone-month. Also, we publish quarterly figures via our online factsheets which are available on our website under the ‘Finance, operations & performance’ tab here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/congestion-charge.

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.

  1. How many vehicles were registered entering the Congestion Charge Zone in November, December 2017 and January and February 2018 that didn’t conform to the minimum T-charge standards? Please give each month’s data separately

Since the launch of the T-Charge the number of the most polluting vehicles entering central London has reduced. The table below details the reduction by showing the average daily number of vehicles entering the Congestion Charge zone which were non-compliant with the T-Charge requirements for each of the requested months:

Month

Daily Average Non-compliant T-Charge Vehicles Detected in CC Zone During Charging Hours

Nov 2017

5,513

Dec 2017

5,572

Jan 2018

4,842

Feb 2018

4,807

  1. How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge in June, July, August, September 2017? Please give each month’s data separately
  2. How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge in November 2017, December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018? Please give each month’s data separately
  3. How many vehicles were issued with Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for non-payment of the Congestion Charge AND the T-Charge November 2017, December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018

For questions 3, 4 and 5, as the T-Charge forms part of the Congestion Charge scheme a single PCN will be issued for non-payment of the Congestion Charge scheme as a whole. The below table explains the total number of PCNs issued for non-payment of the Congestion Charge scheme for each of the requested months:

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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

Sara Thomas

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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