Active Private Hire Operators & License Fee Income
Dear Transport for London,
Please can you provide a year-by-year total from 2011 to the latest year full year of the following:
1. Number of private hire operators with an ACTIVE license for each year.
2. Number of private hire operators with a license that EXPIRED each year AND DID NOT renew.
3. TfL income from PHO license fee's for each year.
Yours faithfully,
Samuel O
Dear Samuel Olugbenga,
Our ref: FOI-2995-2324
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 22 November 2023 asking for information about our Active Private Hire Operators & License Fee Income.
Your request will be considered in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy, and we will issue you with a response by 20 December 2023. 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 and EIR requests or other public queries. Please check http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transpar... to see if this helps you.
We will publish anonymised versions of requests and responses on the 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.
Yours sincerely,
Tahsin Prima
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
Dear Samuel Olugbenga,
Our ref: FOI-2995-2324
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 22 November 2023 asking for information about our Active Private Hire Operators & License Fee Income.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy.
I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
You asked:
Please can you provide a year-by-year total from 2011 to the latest year full year of the following:
1. Number of private hire operators with an ACTIVE license for each year.
3. TfL income from PHO license fee's for each year.
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.
The number of private hire vehicle (PHV) operators with an active licence and PHV operator licence fee costs is already published on our website: Licensing information - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk). On this page we publish an annual snapshot of private hire operator numbers, by year, as well as Taxi and Private Hire financial summary documents that set out income from each licensing category. This information is provided until 2019/20.
Figures post 2020 cannot be provided at this time. In accordance with the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply the information you have requested, as it is subject to a statutory exemption to the right of access to information, under Section 22 of the FOI Act. In this instance the exemption has been applied as the requested information is intended for future publication.
2. Number of private hire operators with a license that EXPIRED each year AND DID NOT renew.
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 requests 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. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
To provide this information we would need to individually check each private hire operator licence issued since 2011, extract and collate this information. The information requested is not held in a reportable format and we have estimated that manually checking this data would considerably exceed the limit set in legislation
To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your requests to concentrate on matters which are important to you.
Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely,
Tahsin Prima
FOI Case Officer
General Counsel
Transport for London
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