Officers are drafting a response which will be sent shortly.

Written response received on 13/03/13.

I will arrange for you to be sent copies of the replies to the two FOI requests which formed the basis for the BBC article. TfL publishes comprehensive information about crimes committed on buses in the quarterly Crime Statistics bulletin http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/crime-and-antisocial-be... and on the London Dashboard http://data.london.gov.uk/dashboard-summary/crime.

The recent media headlines reporting a 50 per cent increase in crime on night buses are incorrect, as the 2011/12 figures show there was a 15 per cent increase compared with 2009/10. Overall, crime on the bus network at night has seen around a 10 per cent reduction since 2007/8, even with ridership increasing over this time. TfL and its policing partners remain focussed on driving crime down even further.

TfL responded to more than 2,500 FOI requests in 2011/12 and publishes information in line with the Secretary of State's Code of Recommended Practice on Data Transparency. The disclosure log will be removed from the TfL website because, given the high volume of requests, it is now unfeasible to keep it updated. TfL is making this change in accordance with new guidance from the Information Commissioner, in recognition that TfL regularly publishes information on its website.