Mental Health

The request was refused by Transport for London.

Jeanette Bryan

Dear Transport for London,

Can you please provide me emails between Mike Brown and Heidi Alexander for the period between 1-1-19 - 1-5-19.

If this exceeds costs can you please tell me how many emails there are?

Yours faithfully,

Jeanette Bryan

FOI, Transport for London

Dear Ms Bryan

 

Our Ref:         FOI-0347-1920

 

Thank you for your request received on 1 May 2019 asking for
correspondence between TfL Commissioner, Mike Brown, and Heidi Alexander.

 

Your request will be processed in accordance with the requirements of the
Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

 

A response will be sent to you by 31 May 2019. We publish a substantial
range of information on our website on subjects including operational
performance, contracts, expenditure, journey data, governance and our
financial performance. This includes data which is frequently asked for in
FOI requests or other public queries. Please check
[1]http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transpar... to see if this helps you.

 

We will publish anonymised versions of requests and responses on the
[2]www.tfl.gov.uk website. We will not publish your name and we will send
a copy of the response to you before it is published on our website.

 

In the meantime, if you would like to discuss this matter further, please
do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Gemma Jacob

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

 

[3][TfL request email]

 

 

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Lewis Western left an annotation ()

Why is this called Mental Health but the request is for emails? If related, wouldn't a title like "Emails about Mental Health" be better?

FOI, Transport for London

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Dear Ms Bryan

 

Our Ref:         FOI-0251-1920 / FOI-0252-1920 / FOI-0346-1920 /
FOI-0347-1920 / FOI-0350-1920

 

Thank you for your e-mails asking for various pieces of information about
taxis and mental health issues.

 

Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of
the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy.

 

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. Section
12(4)(a) of the Act provides for the costs of complying with two or more
requests made in a 60 working day period which are, to any extent, for the
same or similar information to be combined. Section 12(4)(b) provides for
requests made by different people acting in concert, or in pursuance of a
campaign to be considered together under section 12.

 

Our records show that you have made five FOI requests to TfL within a one
week, up to and including the date of your most recent requests of 1 May
2019. Additionally, we believe that you are working in concert with
another requester that has also submitted requests that are clearly
similar in nature which, in total, accounts for 12 open requests from
persons we believe to be acting on concert. We are therefore refusing all
of these outstanding requests under section 12 of the FOI Act. Please note
any further requests that we receive within a 60 working day timeframe
from you or the other requester may also be subject to consideration under
section 12 of FOI.

 

While we appreciate there is a high level of interest in how we are
regulating taxis and the private hire trade, there is a small team
available to respond to these requests and the burden placed on them has
to be balanced with their substantive roles. To help bring the cost of
responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to
prioritise the information you are most interested in and make a single
request on a topic, rather than several requests in a short period of time
in order to make the best use of the processing time available to you
under the FOI Act.

 

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

 

Yours sincerely

 

Gemma Jacob

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

[1][TfL request email]

 

 

 

FOI-0251-1920

Received: 24/04/2019

FOI-1698-1819 shows that you have been sharing driver data with MyTaxi,
under an FOI request can you please tell me;

(a) On what authority do you have to share driver data with MyTaxi who are
unregulated and unlicensed?

(b) How many TFL licensed taxi drivers data have you shared with MyTaxi in
the last 6 months?

(c) What has been the content of taxi driver data that TfL have shared
with MyTaxi? i.e did you receive complaints from MyTaxi about a driver and
did you discuss any driver complaint with MyTaxi in the last 6 months?

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FOI-0252-1920

Received: 24/04/2019

Can you please send me all emails from Mike Brown that reference "mental
health" or "wellbeing" as keywords within the last 3 months.

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FOI-0346-1920

Received: 01/05/2019

How many Licenced Taxi Drivers have had their licences revoked or
suspended due to depression, anxiety or any other mental health condition
in 2018.

Please list the years separately.

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FOI-0347-1920

Received: 01/05/2019

Can you please provide me emails between Mike Brown and Heidi Alexander
for the period between 1-1-19 - 1-5-19.

If this exceeds costs can you please tell me how many emails there are?

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FOI-0350-1920

Received: 01/05/2019

How many Licenced Private Hire Drivers have had their licences revoked or
suspended due to depression, anxiety or any other mental health condition
in 2018.

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