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DfT FOI and EIR disclosure log, August 2025
Updated 30 October 2025
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| Case Number | Outcome | Summary | Date Responded |
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| FOI-00044264 | Fully Met | 1. How many staff in the Department have permission to work remotely outside the UK? 2. In which countries those staff are based? | 01 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044265 | Fully Met | UK maritime accidents 21-22 February 1993 | 01 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044266 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Outline Business Case (OBC) for the Brighton Mainline Upgrade Programme, which includes the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme (CARS), Norwood Junction station improvements, and the proposed third platform at Reigate. According to public communications, this programme was paused in 2022 at the Outline Business Case stage. I would therefore like to request: -A copy of the most recent version of the Outline Business Case submitted or prepared prior to the programme being paused. -Any accompanying summary documents, executive summaries, or supporting technical appendices that were submitted with the OBC. | 01 August 2025 |
| EIR-00043794 | Fully Met | A list of all URLs for the local highway maintenance transparency reports for 2025, as submitted to the Department for Transport by local highway authorities in England in compliance with the 30 June 2025 deadline for the road maintenance funding transparency requirement. | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00043841 | Fully Met | How much has been spent on departmental ministers' internal domestic travel by aircraft of any type, broken down by trip (including date), minister, and type of travel since 04 July 2024? | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00043878 | Fully Met | Number of staff within your organisation who have received formal training in Artificial Intelligence over the last three years, broken down by year. • I’d like to know the number of staff trained e.g. 2025: 450 staff trained • Courses attended: AI ethics, basics etc • Estimated cost of training: £30,000 | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044543 | Fully Met | 1. full details of the methods - including any computer code, e.g., R code - it used to estimate future global sea freight movements. 2. full details of the proxy seat methodology it used for the 2007 HLOS by sharing a spreadsheet that implements that methodology 3. full details of the theoretical framework implemented in its aviation model ICAM 4. full details of the methods the Department used in its rail Carbon Trajectory Model | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044094 | Met But Some Info Not Held | For the purpose of the below questions, a greyfleet vehicle can be defined as a personal vehicle, such as an employee owned vehicle, used for business purposes. • How many greyfleet miles have been travelled by your employees in the financial year 2022-2023? • How many greyfleet miles have been travelled by your employees in the financial year 2023-2024? • How much money has been reimbursed back to employees for those grey fleet miles in the financial year 2022-2023? • How much money has been reimbursed back to employees for those grey fleet miles in the financial year 2023-2024? • How many employee road accidents using a greyfleet vehicle have been reported to your organisation in the year 2022 -2023? • How many employee road accidents using a greyfleet vehicle have been reported to your organisation in the year 2023 -2024? | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044096 | Met But Some Info Not Held | 1. All internal documents (2019–present) justifying the exclusion of the Isle of Skye (57.2°N, 5.9°W) from night flight restrictions applied to urban areas under the UK Air Navigation Order 2016. 2. Minutes of meetings between DfT, NATS, and airlines (e.g., Air France, Emirates) where routing over Skye was discussed, including: - Fuel-saving analyses for the NW corridor. - Noise impact assessments (or explicit decisions not to conduct them). 3. Health impact studies commissioned or reviewed by DfT regarding sleep disruption in rural communities from night flights (2019–present). | 04 August 2025 |
| FOI-00043989 | Fully Met | Total number of times pest control services were called out to any buildings managed or occupied by your department. Please provide this as a single figure broken down for each calendar year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 to date). For each occasion, the type or category of pest reported (for example: rodents, insects, birds, etc.). | 05 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044499 | Fully Met | * A copy of the formal written advice received from National Highways (NH) in relation to Queensbury Tunnel and an estimate of costs for the proposed tunnel abandonment scheme. We believe that both should available for public scrutiny before any works that are prejudicial to community aspirations are allowed to begin. | 05 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044786 | Fully Met | * Lillian Greenwood MP described two coated approaches that could be used at the Queensbury Tunnel 1) The Tunnel to support a Greenway 2) The Tunnel shafts to only be stabilised. What are the estimated costs of each approach? | 05 August 2025 |
| FOI-00043905 | Met But Some Info Not Held | I would like to request any information held by the Department for Transport relating to the impact of cable theft on the UK rail network. | 05 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045447 | Fully Met | Information about terms and conditions for an armed forces veteran joining the department as a civil servant. | 06 August 2025 |
| EIR-00044884 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | The Evaluation Report for the Aviation Decarbonisation Policy Development Contract Award. | 06 August 2025 |
| FOI-00041887 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Remote-ID privacy assessments & ICO/CAA correspondence - DPIA(s), privacy or risk assessments, or briefing papers on Remote Identification of UAS held by DfT since 1 Jan 2024. | 06 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044429 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Bus related funding and agreements for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority in 2025/26 | 06 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045282 | Fully Met | How much the Department for Transport spent on legal fees in the case against North Warwickshire Borough Council which contested High Speed 2 Ltd’s extension to the Bromford Tunnel. Please breakdown all fees from the case, which started in 2021, with dates and individual payments. | 08 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044334 | Fully Met | What evidence has the Department used to support the claim made by Alan Over and Lord Hendy that higher speeds, like those proposed for HS2, help a bit with capacity on that route? | 08 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044802 | Fully Met | Please provide all departmental policies and procedures related to suicide prevention. Specifically, what actions are line managers expected to take if an employee reports feeling suicidal or is suspected to be at risk of suicide? Additionally, are there any established policies or procedures that guide the department’s response if an employee dies by suicide and attributes their decision to work-related factors? If so, what follow-up actions are undertaken? | 08 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045450 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | All emails and Word documents held by the CAA Sponsorship Team during the period 1 October 2018 to 31 January 2019 which discuss: • The financial viability of Monarch Aircraft Engineering Ltd (MAEL) • Regulatory oversight or any consideration of enforcement or contingency planning in connection with MAEL’s insolvency | 08 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044974 | Fully Met | Is time off allowed to Health and Safety Representatives to carry out their functions, to attend H&S committees and undertake relevant training counted against the facility time allocation for the department. Also please send me all relevant extracts from the policies governing time off allowed to Heath and Safety Representatives to carry out their functions, to attend H&S committees and undertake relevant training. | 11 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046184 | Fully Met | Please provide: 1) The latest organisation structure for Transport for the North, showing all full time, part time and secondee roles. 2) Please provide salary information for all roles. | 11 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044897 | Fully Met | Vickers Viking Accidents between 1961 & 1965. | 12 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044971 | Fully Met | I would like to request copies of all current sick pay policies applicable to employees of your organisation. | 12 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045937 | Fully Met | Employment information for the Director General of Major Rail Projects Group. | 12 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046248 | Fully Met | All of your entity's transactions over £25000 for May to June 2025. | 12 August 2025 |
| EIR-00044509 | Fully Met | 1. Total amount paid by OZEV in (a) EV chargepoint grants to landlords and (b) EV infrastructure grants to landlords, broken down per financial year, from FY 2020–2021 to the latest completed year. 2. Number of grants awarded in each category, per year. 3. If available, total number of landlord applicants in this period. | 13 August 2025 |
| EIR-00044785 | Fully Met | * Status of the Development Consent Order for A303 Stonehenge | 13 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045635 | Fully Met | Information regarding recruitment by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2024. | 13 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045852 | Fully Met | The number of complete applications received for the recent Deputy Director Digital Assurance, Compliance, and Controls role in your department (reference: 413817) | 13 August 2025 |
| EIR-00041614 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Consultation responses/submissions made by various car companies to the most recent ZEV mandate consultation (which closed on 18 February). | 13 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045100 | Fully Met | Each year the Dept for Transport publishes “Freeflow speed data”. For 2023 and 2024, please supply the following additional information: For each individual site where the speed limit is 20mph or 30mph, for cars only: * Site location (postcode, whatthreewords or similar) * Speed limit at the location (20mph or 30mph) * Mean speed of vehicles * Percentage of vehicles by speed (5mph buckets) * Number of vehicles in sample (if available) | 14 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045165 | Fully Met | What authority do the British Parachuting Association have to conduct investigations into work-related parachuting incidents? | 14 August 2025 |
| EIR-00044949 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Documents or information relating to the adoption, regulation, and strategic planning for Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable fuel source in the United Kingdom. | 14 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045163 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | The names and members of the four Task and Finish Groups, which sit inside the Jet Zero Taskforce | 14 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044973 | Fully Met | Any relevant documentation (including, but not limited to, guidance documents, intranet material, etc.) detailing corporate policy in respect of managing workplace relationships. | 15 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045046 | Fully Met | 1. Whether the department has approved a salary exceeding the Permanent Secretary pay band since 04 July 2024. 2. If so, when the approval was made. 3. If so, for which role's salary. | 15 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045228 | Fully Met | I am seeking to understand, with a yes or no answer and appropriate evidence, whether the east coast mainline, will have sections that can operate up to 140mph, once the upgrades to digital in cab signalling be complete? Also if yes when will trains start operating at 140mph. If no please provide rationale as to why this has changed since the IRP in 2021. | 15 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045943 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | How many FTE/headcount/individuals have left the organisation for another role whilst on the lowest performance rating in the last year? How many FTE/headcount/individuals have been removed from the department due to performance concerns or failure to meet performance criteria? How many staff members are currently on the departments lowest performance banding? | 15 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045978 | Met But Some Info Not Held | The median amount of time current employees at specified grades have been in their current role in the department. | 18 August 2025 |
| EIR-00041402 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Submissions from various airlines (included all attached documents) to the Department for Transport's consultation on the "SAF revenue certainty mechanism: approach to industry funding. | 18 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045563 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Provide all letters of support the department for Transport received in respect to the funding they provided to Worcestershire County Council for the A38 Bromsgrove Route Enhancement Programme | 18 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045044 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | The number of instances that DfT has used private detectives/investigators since 2023 until now; * Over what time period they were used and how much was spent; * Any internal communications relating to any such investigation. | 18 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045277 | Fully Met | 1. A detailed breakdown of the £2,800 spent on 'Employer for Carers Membership' and an 'Iftar Event' as mentioned in the Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report. 2. An itinerary of the events including times, speakers, and teams involved where applicable. Include event descriptions where applicable. | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045537 | Fully Met | Copy of Report G-AVUT March 1979. | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00043441 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Funding of the National Parking Platform | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045613 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Demographic data of DfT’s workforce. | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045951 | Met But Some Info Not Held | 1. Sports and leisure facilities available to staff at Great Minster House (e.g. Gymnasium, Aerobics classes). 2. The total annual cost of upkeep of each facility since 2023. Include the so-far incurred expenditure in 2025. 3. Total number of users of each facility reported by the operator, broken down by month, since January 2024. | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00042546 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Follow up to FOI-00040584 copies of internal emails, memos, or risk assessments between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2024 discussing: Public pushback or controversy regarding 15-minute city policies, low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), or similar schemes. | 19 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045515 | Fully Met | Information about lost emails in DfT(c)'s systems in the past 12 months. | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045536 | Fully Met | Questions on AAIB Report AAIB-30407 G-FICH. | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045545 | Fully Met | Please detail the number of laptops, tablets and phones purchased by your department, as well as the average cost per device. Please provide this information by year from August to July for the past three years. | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045983 | Fully Met | What structured career development or support programmes does the department have to promote talent within the organisation. | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046113 | Fully Met | Does the department have any programmes or systems for monitoring and supporting technical expertise within the workforce (e.g. programmes that are designed to support specific technical specialists, such as data scientists, develop their career in the organisation). Does the department have any measures, programmes or systems in place to protect and enhance institutional memory or capabilities via workforce retention? | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046008 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Information for the most recent 12-month period available, relating to Southeastern’s One Click Delay Repay (OCDR) system. | 20 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045538 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | AAIB's contract register, procurement strategy, and key contact information. | 21 August 2025 |
| EIR-00044846 | Fully Met | All correspondence between Oxfordshire County Council and the Department of Transport on the subject of a possible congestion charge in Oxford during 2025 | 22 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045571 | Fully Met | What proportion of electricity consumed on the departmental estate comes from renewable sources. | 22 August 2025 |
| EIR-00046115 | Fully Met | Please provide information on your department's current use of solar panels on your estate. If they are not used on your estate please let me know. Grateful to be provided with any future plans to increase the use of solar panels on your estate or plans to use solar panels on your estate. | 22 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045565 | Fully Met | Provide copies of the following: Traffic Advisory Leaflet 1/86: Cycle Route Project, Stockton Traffic Advisory Leaflet 3/86: Cycle Route Project, Bedford, The Hastingbury Route | 22 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045338 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Please could I request any policy papers produced by the Department on the policy of a frequent flyer levy. | 22 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045540 | Fully Met | Has there been a cost/benefit analysis relating to building the HS2 line starting from the North. i.e. Leeds (or possibly Manchester) to Birmingham and thence to London? If so, what was the outcome of the analysis? | 26 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045924 | Fully Met | I understand that a number of allegations of wrongdoing were made against me by civil servants from the Department for Transport and National Highways during the recent stakeholder meeting to discuss Queensbury Tunnel. Can you please provide me with a recording or transcript of the meeting. | 26 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045627 | Fully Met | Follow up to FOI-00043785 Correspondence related to the research into the effectiveness of current civil parking penalty charge levels | 26 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045945 | Fully Met | Does the department hold information and actively manage its cadre of domain specialists (by domain specialist, I am referring to subject matter expertise. For example, in HMR, this might look like a Civil Servant with an in-depth understanding of a certain sector, within the FCDO this might refer to a Civil Servant with an in depth understanding of certain regions or political groups)? | 26 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046055 | Fully Met | 1. The name of your primary YouTube channel. 2. Costs associated with producing YouTube videos for the primary YouTube channel, broken down by video, since 01 January 2024, including venue, personnel hire, editing, agency costs, all where applicable. 3. The number of FTE staff who have responsibility for the primary YouTube channel on YouTube currently. | 26 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045714 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | As I understand it, your organisation has renewed (I believe either last year or early this) its accreditation to be a Disability Confident Leader. That must mean your organisation made a submission to an external body setting out the organisation’s self-assessment and updating the evidence template and providing evidence on Voluntary Reporting. I would like a copy of that submission . | 26 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045946 | Fully Met | 1. How many staff have hired a bicycle/equipment for a bicycle since 01 January 2024 as part of the Cycle to Work (CtW) scheme, broken down by month. 2. How many staff have paid a fee to retain their bicycle at the end of the hire period as part of the Cycle to Work (CtW) scheme since 01 January 2024, broken down by month. | 27 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046270 | Fully Met | How many employees are currently on permanent contracts with no duration limit? How many employees are currently on fixed term contracts (e.g. 2 years)? Can you break this data out by grade? How many employees are on temporary contracts? | 27 August 2025 |
| EIR-00045882 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | The list of respondents to the call for evidence on the "RTFO statutory review and future of the scheme" which was published on the 25th November 2024. | 27 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045988 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Information regarding Floating bus stops | 27 August 2025 |
| EIR-00046080 | Fully Met | The specific date and the detail of the electric car grant provided by the government to the motor industry and how, (specifically Stellantis) | 28 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046033 | Fully Met | Process and Legal Framework for Lime E-Scooters in the UK | 28 August 2025 |
| FOI-00045982 | Met But Some Info Not Held | St Ives Prohibited Vehicles - A3074/B3306 | 28 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046134 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Please provide a copy of the strategic and economic cases for the East Coast Digital Programme that were produced at the strategic outline case stage, outline business case stage and full business case stage. | 28 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046183 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Passenger accidents/injuries worldwide on UK registered cruise ships. | 28 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046249 | Fully Met | Questions on Safety Actions from accident to G-BXBU 12 Aug 2021. | 29 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046271 | Fully Met | How many FTE/headcount/individuals in the SCS have accepted packages or settlements via either voluntary exit schemes or mutually agreed exit schemes in the last 12 month period? How many FTE/headcount/individuals in the G6 and G7 grades have accepted packages or settlements via either voluntary exit schemes or mutually agreed exit schemes in the last 12 month period? How many FTE/headcount/individuals in the SEO - AA grades have accepted packages or settlements via either voluntary exit schemes or mutually agreed exit schemes in the last 12 month period? | 29 August 2025 |
| FOI-00044428 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Please provide copies of all correspondence received / sent from yourselves to National Highways or others in regards to this inquiry/ new junction | 29 August 2025 |
| FOI-00046251 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Pre-load Calculation Questions on G-VSKP 27Oct2018. Which of the two conflicting* illustrations in AAIB 1/2023, Fig. 8 at p. 18 or Fig. 29 at p. 76, correctly depicts the installation of the duplex bearing in G-VSKP. | 29 August 2025 |