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DfT FOI and EIR disclosure log, September 2025
Updated 10 November 2025
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| Case Number | Outcome | Summary | Date Responded |
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| EIR-00046247 | Fully Met | A copy of the net zero transport job growth potential calculators. | 01 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046204 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Investigation into VOS Voyager. | 01 September 2025 |
| FOI-00043875 | Fully Met | State the total number of civil servants in the aviation division (DfT) and the number within the aviation division who are working on any aspect of Heathrow expansion, including proposals for a third runway and a review of the Airports National Policy Statement. | 02 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047512 | Fully Met | Does your department have a data governance plan? Please provide the document name and what is the job title of the person who oversees data governance in your department? How many staff members in your department have “data” in their job title? Please provide this information for the most recent year September 2024-August 2025. | 02 September 2025 |
| EIR-00046804 | Met But Some Info Not Held | 1. How many public EV charging points there are in the United Kingdom; 2. How many of those are currently operational; 3. What regulations there are to cap their charges per kWh; 4. What regulations there are to advertise their charges as per a petrol or diesel supplier; 5. Why do so many not have a sufficient signal to accept a debit or credit card? | 03 September 2025 |
| EIR-00045564 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Advanced Fuels Fund Round 3 | 03 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046273 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | 1) Any internal briefings, risk assessments, or research papers (2019–2024) held by the DfT concerning alcohol consumption as a contributory factor in leisure vessel accidents. 2) Aggregated statistics compiled by the DfT (from MAIB, MCA, or other sources) on: - The number of leisure boating accidents (2019–2023) where alcohol was confirmed or suspected as a factor. - Associated fatalities/serious injuries. 3) Details of safety campaigns or initiatives (2019–2024) funded/organized by the DfT targeting alcohol use by leisure boaters. | 04 September 2025 |
| FOI-00039598 | Fully Met | Map of all Active Travel Fund area-based interventions at all project stages, including Low Traffic Neighbourhoods • Map of all LCWIP schemes available on ATIP in Liverpool City Region. I would like you to provide the information as GIS layers, ex. geojsons. Please ensure the funding scheme and project stage are included in the properties table. | 05 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046363 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Data on leisure vessel accidents with alcohol as a contributory factor. | 05 September 2025 |
| EIR-00045334 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | (a) what consideration, if any, was given towards the second-hand market for electric vehicles (EVs) in the design of the Electric Car Grant announced on the 15 July 2025; and (b) can you please share any internal communications relating to considerations over the introduction of measures supporting the second-hand electric vehicle (EV) market as part of, or in conjunction with, the introduction of the Electric Car Grant. | 05 September 2025 |
| EIR-00046348 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | * A38 Derby Junctions scheme funding decision and cost escalation | 08 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046864 | Fully Met | • The number of staff who have received payment in lieu of unused annual leave (sometimes referred to as “annual leave buy-back” or “holiday pay” for leave not taken) • The total cost of these payments in each year. • A breakdown of the number of staff and total cost by staff grade. • The highest single payment made to an individual in each year, and the grade of that individual. | 09 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046530 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Lost or Stolen IT equipment | 09 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046688 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | 1) Do you use a Citizen Engagement platform? 2) If so, what tools do you use? 3) How much do you spend annually on a Citizen Engagement tool? 4) Which month & year does your contract with your supplier end? A citizen engagement platform is a digital tool or system designed to facilitate communication, interaction, and participation between citizens and government or public institutions. Its goal is to make civic involvement easier, more transparent, and more effective. | 09 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046968 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | • Policy documents and consultations relating to the trail parking penalties with BCP and guidance discussed and implemented on the authorisation of the Department of Transport. • Rationale for increasing penalty to £160. • Details of all parking contraventions for previous periods (August 2024, August 2023, Augus 2022). • All data you hold regarding me and my vehicle. | 09 September 2025 |
| FOI-00044200 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | [Late] Clarification on original request regarding: Secretary of State for Transport: costs and submissions as intervener in Supreme Court Case UKSC/2022/0046 | 10 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046682 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Spiralling costs of car insurance. 1. Since the announcement on 16 October 2024, have there been: a) any meetings with industry groups, consumer champions, and insurance regulators for this purpose? b) any meetings of the new cross-government motor insurance taskforce? 2. If yes, please provide the dates of meetings and a copy of the attendees and minutes. | 10 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046923 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Does your department or any of its associated agencies or arm’s-length bodies currently use Camunda in its technology stack (most commonly used for business process orchestration or workflow automation)? If so, please provide: The version of Camunda software currently in use. The name(s) of any suppliers, delivery partners, or consultancies involved in implementation, integration, or support. A short description of the primary use cases or processes Camunda supports If not, please provide a list of products currently used for business process orchestration or workflow automation. | 11 September 2025 |
| EIR-00047136 | Fully Met | Under the terms of the Development Agreeement HS2 are required to provide monthly reports of the AFC (Anticipated Final Costs for the project phases. I have been informed by HS2 that at some point EAC's were provided in lieu of AFC. EAC's have been provided previously. Please provide AFC values for Phase 1 that were provided by HS2 to DfT, of particular interest as those at the end of March 2021 and March 2022 as these are referenced in the annual reports, however I would like this going back to the beginning of the reporting if not too onerous. | 12 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046772 | Fully Met | Citizen Engagement Platform | 12 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046891 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Please include the following information for the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25: • The average call wait times for your customer service phone lines are each year. • The percentage of calls answered within your target time for each of those years. • The average response time for written correspondence (email, letter, or online submissions) in each of those years. • The percentage of correspondence responded to within the organisation’s target timeframe in each year. • The number of formal complaints received relating to delays, unanswered calls, or poor customer service, broken down by year. • If held, the department’s official service level targets for customer interaction (e.g., target wait time, target response time) and whether those targets were met in each year. | 12 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046770 | Fully Met | Network Rail maintenance awards ceremony | 15 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047510 | Fully Met | Please could you confirm whether there is any intention to procure the street works qualification register under a competitive process, and if not, clarify the legal basis for direct award. | 15 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046866 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Estimated infrastructure debt – roads and rail | 15 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047114 | Fully Met | On June 10, 2025 a DfT press release claimed the self driving vehicles "industry could create 38,000 jobs and add £42 billion to the UK economy by 2035, helping deliver the Plan for Change by putting money in people’s pockets" Please provide me with the information which underlies the analysis that 38,000 jobs could be created and £42 billion will be added to the economy. | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048502 | Fully Met | Copy of the report on North Yorkshire Council's ATF5 A661 Wetherby Road scheme | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048865 | Fully Met | Information on how Child Fare train prices are calculated including how the main factors and the final calculations are done. | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046867 | Met But Some Info Not Held | I am now revising my request …. I am requesting service performance data for the First Essex/First Bus 300 service Basildon to/from Chelmsford from Q1 2024 to date. Specifically, I would like to know what percentage of services on this route met the Traffic Commissioner’s national target whereby 95% of bus services should depart within the bracket of up to 1 minute early and up to 5 minutes late. | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045120 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Staff Safety and Manual Handling: GWR, RDG, and Cecence Ramp Project | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045166 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Information request relating to the organisation’s ICT contracts, specifically around: 1. contact centre contract(s) 2. inbound network services contract (s) | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045926 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | 1. Any advice, correspondence or other documents from National Highways relating to your decision to abandon the Queensbury tunnel scheme; 2. Any advice from civil servants relating to your decision, including in particular the advice you received on 14 May 2025; and 3. To the extent not covered by the above, any documents comparing the BCR of abandoning the tunnel and pursuing the “alpine” active travel route relative to restoring the tunnel and pursuing an active travel route through the tunnel. | 16 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048302 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Who is the individual in charge of the online consultation and engagement platform you use to connect with the public? What team does this individual belong to in the department? Who is the individual in charge of reporting on response data received from the public? What team does this individual belong to in the department? Who is in charge of procurement for your consultation and engagement software? What team does this individual belong to in the department? When is the next planned online consultation for your department outside of existing ones? Who is responsible for the day to day running of the platform? | 16 September 2025 |
| EIR-00047472 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | I am enquiring as to the scoring methodology with respect to the IAE Carbon emissions, that is points associated with CO2 in g/kWh for both battery cell and vehicle manufacturing and the associated scoring thresholds for the £3750 (Band 1) and £1500 (Band 2) Electric Car (also known as zero emissions car) Grant. | 17 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045167 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | All minutes from meetings between the Aviation Minister and Thomas Woldbye, Chief Executive of Heathrow Airport. | 17 September 2025 |
| EIR-00047540 | Fully Met | [LTC] (1) The costs associated with any planning, construction or development work for the Lower Thames Crossing. Please break this data down into categories detailing what the costs covered. (2) The legal costs incurred by your department in any legal cases associated with the Lower Thames Crossing. | 18 September 2025 |
| EIR-00045004 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Information in relation to the Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) Round 3. | 18 September 2025 |
| EIR-00045399 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Various information about the Advanced Fuels Fund Window 3 Competition. | 18 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048473 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Information regarding penalty fare revenue arrangements under National Rail Contracts. | 18 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045599 | Fully Met | Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide a list of all internal briefings, submissions, or ministerial notes prepared by DfT officials for Ministers (including the Secretary of State and Rail Minister) regarding redevelopment proposals at Liverpool Street Station since 1 January 2024. | 19 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047303 | Fully Met | list of current ongoing cross-sectional research studies commissioned since March 2024", including any available summaries, aims, objectives and entities undertaking the research? | 19 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048125 | Fully Met | Information about Alan Over's employment. | 19 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048126 | Fully Met | For the last three financial years - 2024/25, 2023/24, 2022/23: 1.) The number of days which were lost to sick leave within the Department for Transport each financial year (which employees required a fit note for). 2.) The number of days which were specifically lost with Department for Transport staff requiring sickness leave on mental health grounds each year. 3.) The number of staff employed by the Department for Transport in each financial year. | 19 September 2025 |
| FOI-00049240 | Fully Met | For RAIB: Suppliers payment/spend data from 2018 to the most recent months. Payments to suppliers over £500 or over £25,000, depending on your publication thresholds | 19 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047562 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Request for Four Accident Reports between 1936 and 1943. | 19 September 2025 |
| EIR-00047599 | Fully Met | At the July 2025 Transport Committee, Alan Over discussed Optimism Bias (Q22) and that the Target was based on a P50 and the P70 was the value at which the government 'understood they were ensuring themselves'. Can I have a copy of the report on which this was based? If not please can you answer: 1) Was the P70 the same as the upper funding envelope of £44.6bn? 2) What were the P80, P90 and P95 values from the Optimism Bias adjustments? 3) Was the HM Treasury Optimism Bias toolkit used? If not what? 4) What category was used for the OB adjustment? e.g Rail, High Speed Rail, mixture etc? | 23 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047542 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Please can you provide me with the TSR (Train Service Requirement) at Church Stretton as detailed in the Welsh Franchise Agreement and associated documents from 2018. Have any changes to the TSR been made and if so can you provide the current TSR? | 23 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047515 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Questions on Consultation & Safety Recommendations during and after investigation into G-BXFI. | 24 September 2025 |
| FOI-00049515 | Fully Met | Access to the Department for Transport’s current Policy on Mark Time Pay. | 24 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047862 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | In 2019 the Department introduced a new section into the TSRGD, entitled “Chapter 6, Traffic Control”. I would appreciate it if you would provide nformation regarding the development and introduction of this section of the TSRGD: | 24 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047901 | Fully Met | Please provide copies of any current internal policies or guidance documents held by your department that encourage the procurement of British-made office products and stationery, including any such policies applicable to your department’s arms-length bodies. | 25 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048300 | Met But Some Info Not Held | I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 relating to all Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) sponsored by the Department for Transport Specifically, I would be grateful if you could provide details on the following: The dates on which each DfT-sponsored ALB last conducted an externally facilitated Board Effectiveness Review (BER). The name of the external firm or consultant that facilitated each of these reviews. | 25 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048298 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | I would like a copy of the contract: "Provision of Legal Advice for External Legal Sanctions" (Reference 4104124) awarded to DLA Piper commencing in July 2025. | 25 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046114 | Met But Some Info Not Held | Please can you provide me with a breakdown of Government support for the rail freight industry for the last financial year 2024/2025? Please include rail freight grants, Mode Shift Revenue Support grants and any other grants or ad hoc funding provided to rail freight operators during this timeframe. | 26 September 2025 |
| EIR-00048501 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Information related to the decision to limit the Fund to supporting one form of cross-pavement EV charging solution. | 26 September 2025 |
| FOI-00046255 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | Any correspondence between DfT officials or Ministers, and their counterparts in the United States Customs and Border Protection agency in the last two years regarding the prospect of ‘immigration pre-clearance' being introduced at UK airports to enable passengers travelling to the United States to clear US immigration in the UK rather than the US. Please could you also provide any internal briefing prepared for Ministers in the past two years regarding the prospect of pre-clearance being introduced at UK airports. Please could you also provide any media briefing that includes mention of pre-clearance at UK airports. | 26 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048258 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | An engineering study of the feasibility of reinstating a railway line between Colne and Skipton to modern railway standards (Steer consultancy)' completed 2018. | 26 September 2025 |
| EIR-00047887 | Fully Met | 1) Breakdown of actual spend on Road Investment Strategy 2, with the same categories as were set out for the Interim Settlement on page 27 of this policy paper: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-road-network-interim-settlement-2025-to-2026. Note that the National Highways' Performance Report to Parliament 2024/25 only appears to have set out the total figure, rather than breaking it down into categories. 2) Annual reports for 2023-24 and 2024-25 of DfT's Joint Analysis Development Panel, as these still do not appear to have been published on DfT's website. 3) Any emails or meeting notes or indeed other information produced since 1 January 2024 discussing the need to update the 2022 National Road Traffic Projections and potential timing to do this. | 29 September 2025 |
| FOI-00047996 | Met But Some Info Not Held | 1. How many staff are employed at DFT on skilled worker visas sponsored by the department? 2. What was the cost of skilled worker visas at the department in the last financial year? Please break this down by the cost of visas and the cost of renewing existing visas. | 29 September 2025 |
| FOI-00045993 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | (1) any application which has been made by Stockton on Tees Borough Council to extend the temporary closure of footpath number 4 in Whitton, Stockton on Tees, since the extension was granted by you on 24 January 2025 (such an extension due to expiry on 21 August 2025), (2) any correspondence or documentation sent from the Department of Transport to Stockton on Tees Borough Council, or vice versa, concerning the same said footpath from 25 January 2025 to date. (3) Your response to any such application and any order made. | 29 September 2025 |
| FOI-00048242 | Met But Some Info Not Held | What is the carriageway road maintenance backlog in England for local roads? Does the Department for Transport have details of each highways authority's carriageway maintenance backlog? If so I would like this information. What percentage of each local highways is Red, Amber or Green in terms of condition? Does the Department of Transport recognise the ALARM survey data showing a £16.8 billion carriageway maintenance backlog in England and Wales? A part from the £1.6 billion funding from government for road maintenance and potholes for local roads. What plans are there to tackle the massive road maintenance backlog which is growing each year? | 30 September 2025 |
| EIR-00048245 | Part Refusal/Exemptions | In NAO HS2 Progress Report 2020 it states: "2019 Jun • Chairperson of HS2 Ltd informs the accounting officer that there is no prospect of HS2 Ltd being able to deliver Phase One within the available funding or on time and provides the Department with a draft report from their review of the programme." Can I have a copy of any documents ref that meeting & the draft report. As the NAO reported it there must be documents or how could the NAO have recorded in there report. | 30 September 2025 |