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Mike Magee
Network Rail
By email:
request-347606-
Freedom of Information
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
The Quadrant
Elder Gate
Milton Keynes
MK9 1EN
T 01908 782405
E xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
27th July 2016
Dear Mr Magee
Information request
Reference number: FOI2016/00830
Thank you for your email of 24th July 2016. You requested the following information:
‘Can you tell me how much money your corporation has received from the paid for
female and male toilets at King's Cross station in your fiscal 2014-2105?’
I have processed your request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA).
I confirm that we hold the information that you have requested. However, under
section 21 of the FOIA, we are not required to provide information in response to a
request if it is reasonably accessible to you by other means. The information you
requested is already available through our Transparency Portal at:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency/datasets/ 1.
Under section 16 of the FOIA we have a responsibility to provide advice and
assistance to requestors so far as it is reasonable for us to do so. With this in mind I
thought it might be useful to raise the following points:
• The figure in question refers only to our gross income – our net income once
the cost of staffing, cleaning and maintenance has been taken into account is
likely to be considerably less. By way of comparison in 2012/13 33.6% of the
gross income received for the Kings Cross toilets was spent on the staffing,
cleaning and maintenance of the facilities.
• Any profits made from our toilets are reinvested into our station facilities.
• Your request makes reference to ‘female and male toilets’ but does not ask
for a breakdown of the cost on this basis. We think providing the overall figure
is the most natural interpretation of your request, if, however, you would like to
see a breakdown between female and male toilets please write back to us
and we will treat this as a fresh request. Please note we do not at this stage
1 Please check under ‘Station toilet figures’ / ‘Station financial data’
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know whether we hold this information and, as with any other request, cannot
guarantee that we will be able to provide any information in advance of
receiving the request.
I hope the information provided proves useful, if you have any enquiries about this
response, please contact me in the first instance at
xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx or on
01908 782405. Details of your appeal rights are below.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Mantle
Information Officer
Appeal Rights
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