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Dear Mr Kearney

Our Ref:         FOI-2122-2425

Thank you for your request received on 6 October 2024 asking for
correspondence associated with our response to Members Correspondence "RE:
Bus death data query" sent 1 October 2024 on behalf of Caroline Russell
AM.

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 1 November 2024. 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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Dear Mr Kearney

Our Ref:         FOI-2122-2425 / FOI-2123-2425

Thank you for your requests received on 6 October 2024 asking for
correspondence associated with our response to Members Correspondence "RE:
Bus death data query" sent 1 October 2024 on behalf of Caroline Russell AM
and correspondence associated with the Bus Safety Performance data we
published in September 2024.

Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of
the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. I
can confirm that we hold the information you require.

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.

We have estimated that it would cost over £450 to provide a response to
your current requests. This is because it is estimated that it would take
in excess of 18 working hours to retrieve and compile the information you
have requested. We are now applying an aggregate cost limit to the
outstanding requests which we received on 6 October 2024.

It should be noted that currently we are unable to conduct remote searches
for emails and so the process of locating emails is entirely manual,
consisting of searches conducted by individuals that may or may not hold
relevant material. Through an initial manual search for sampling purposes
we have identified approximately 500 emails that may be relevant to your
requests. However it is probable that additional emails are held in other
areas of the organisation that were not identified through this manual
search which would increase the volume of material requiring review
further. We would need to manually review all of the emails identified in
order to extract and collate the relevant emails. In many cases it will
not be immediately obvious whether emails regarding bus safety data was
directly relevant to the specific matters you are interesting in and so a
period of detailed review on each email and any associated attachment
would be necessary. We estimate that conducting this process would exceed
the cost limit set out above.

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, focusing on a question or
document of interest rather than broad requests for correspondence, in
order to make the best use of the processing time available to you under
the FOI Act.

Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a
request for specific documents, we do 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.

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-2122-2425

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