Taxi Cost to Force

Reference Number: 1673
Date released: 09 February 2009

Request

Please could I be supplied with:

Your force's total spend on (i) taxis and (ii) hire vehicles during the last financial year.
Your force's total spend on taxis for suspects released from custody over the last financial year.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

(i) The Forces total spend on taxi's. This information is held in individual expense claims. To determine the figure would require a manual examination of over 4,000 claim forms. This it is estimated would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations. (ii) The force's total spend on hire vehicles for 2007/08 was £411,076.52.
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