• Reference: 2024/0203
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

A long-running investigation by The Times details the collision KSIs and poor working conditions (long hours, distracted driving) associated with contracted timeliness targets embedded into delivery driver contracts and found on delivery driver dashboard technology. In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “[contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” are precisely the same kinds of timeliness targets that The Times has long exposed as dangerous for delivery drivers and that bus drivers have informed the Transport Committee are in place for them. Please explain why time-based headway...

• Reference: 2024/0202
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

How many establishments have signed up to the LGBTQ+ Venues Charter, and can this be broken down by year since it was created?

• Reference: 2024/0201
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

What has been the impact of the LGBTQ+ Venues and Promoters Forum?

• Reference: 2024/0200
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

How many Night Time Surgeries will be planned for this year by the Night Czar, especially in light of the NTIA figures?

• Reference: 2024/0199
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

NTIA figures produced by CGA powered by NeilsonIQ shows in September 2023, there are 35,469 independent businesses operating within the night time economy, a sharp decrease from the number of businesses in 2020 at 41,596 – with a staggering 5% decline in just the past year. How is the Mayor helping independent businesses in the night time economy?

• Reference: 2024/0198
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Only 37% of night time cultural and leisure workers are paid London Living Wage, what work has the Mayor done and what more can be done to improve this number?

• Reference: 2024/0197
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Since our last discussion in December, what actions have you taken regarding bus delays through Streatham?

• Reference: 2024/0196
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

What progress has been made to date on publishing a “statement of facts” promptly after a fatal bus collision, with the basic facts of the incident known at that time?

• Reference: 2024/0195
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Who are the Met external auditors?

• Reference: 2024/0194
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

An 11 December article in the Evening Standard reported London bus drivers claiming LTNs had removed bus lanes and that the resulting time pressure being placed on them by their employers and the public was compelling them to consider strike action. Is there any evidence to support their claim that the creation of LTNs removed bus lanes? Has Unite the Union raised the issue that hostility to LTNs might provoke strike action by London bus drivers at any tripartite meetings?