TfL maintenance costs by tube lines and transport services

The request was refused by Transport for London.

Michelle Gooden-Jones

Dear Transport for London,

I would like to request from you through the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the following information:

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Hammersmith & City underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Piccadilly underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Bakerloo underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Central underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Circle underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the District underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Jubilee underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Victoria underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Metropolitan underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Northern underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Waterloo & City underground line between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the London Underground tube service as a whole between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the London Overground train service between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning TfL Rail service between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the DLR service between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

The amount of money spent repairing, maintaining and cleaning the Tram service between 16 March 2018 to 16 March 2019.

Yours faithfully,

Michelle Gooden-Jones

FOI, Transport for London

Dear Michelle Gooden-Jones

 

Our ref: FOI-3468-1819/GH

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 15
March 2019 asking for information about London Underground.

 

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 15 April 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

 

Graham Hurt

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

 

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FOI, Transport for London

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Dear Michelle Gooden-Jones

 

Our ref: FOI-3468-1819/GH

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 15
March 2019 asking for information about London Underground.

 

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. Unfortunately,
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 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 request. This is because it is estimated that it would take
over 18 working hours to retrieve and compile the information you have
requested.

 

We do not hold centralised information on the costs for maintenance and
repair work across the entire network. On London Underground, each line
will have had multiple teams carrying out works on different sections of
the track on any given night and weekend, as well as future programmed
works. Therefore, to locate and collate all of this information would
exceed the cost limit. Additionally, obtaining the information for London
Overground, TfL Rail, Trams and DLR services would add to this burden.

 

Similarly there are different contracts in place for cleaning on the
Underground and the other services. Obtaining the costs for all of the
cleaning across the network would also be a significant task which would
take up an excessive amount of our time.

 

To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450
limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more
easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. If
you want to refine your request or make a Freedom of Information Act
request in future, please bear in mind that the Freedom of Information Act
allows you to request recorded information held by Transport for London.
You should identify the information that you want as clearly and concisely
as you can, specifying the types of document that you are looking for.

 

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 are not satisfied with this response please see the attached
information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Graham Hurt

 

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

 

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