• Reference: 2023/4845
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Transport for London (TfL) operates a scheme to allow people to apply for dispensation to relax parking rules on red routes. For each financial year since 2016-17 could you provide a table including: a) year, b) type of dispensation, c) volume of dispensations issued and, d) value of dispensations issued.

• Reference: 2023/4844
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

For each bus route in London which Transport for London (TfL) has put out to tender and is currently operating, please provide a table including: a) bus route, b) route details, c) tender issue, d) tender return, e) contract award, f) contract start, g) vehicles, h) accepted bid, i) Lowest Individual Compliant Bid, j) Highest Individual Compliant Bid and, k) Cost per live mile of awarded contract £/mile.

• Reference: 2023/4843
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

For a new bus route, could you outline the elements of setting up that bus route that create extra costs for Transport for London (TfL) with a clear itemisation of each element that also separates one-off and ongoing costs?

• Reference: 2023/4842
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

For a typical bus route change, could you outline the elements of changing a route that create extra costs for Transport for London (TfL) with a clear itemisation of each element that also separates one-off and ongoing costs?

• Reference: 2023/4841
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

For all routes where their route changed since May 2016, could you give a table that provides details including: a) route affected, b) date of change, c) cost of changes, d) brief summary of costs and, e) change in number of bus stops served?

• Reference: 2023/4840
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Does Transport for London (TfL) have safeguards in place to prevent the use of CCTV and other imagery by artificial intelligence powered processes in any way that might be considered a form of facial recognition and if so, can you explain what they are?

• Reference: 2023/4839
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3582, in which you said: “I am in the process of commissioning an evaluation of Solar Together London.” When will you be publishing this evaluation?

• Reference: 2023/4838
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Since my report London’s Dead Spaces was published on 6 June 2022, I have been contacted by numerous representatives from social enterprises and charities in search of empty properties in which to provide much-needed community and neighbourhood support activities. My report recommended that: “Work should be done by the Mayor of London to map and evaluate the wider range of empty spaces in our city.” Your response to my report did not tackle this recommendation specifically, so could you outline any work you have done on this and publish any data that you hold?

• Reference: 2023/4837
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The November 2023 Housing Research Note 11, The Cost of Poor Housing in London, from GLA Housing and Land, states: “The estimated cost of poor housing in London is very large: around £100m per year to the NHS alone. The estimated cost of mitigating all poor conditions would be around £1.20bn. The savings made by the NHS would pay back the cost of mitigation in 12.0 years.” What new actions will you take to tackle poor housing in light of these findings?

• Reference: 2023/4836
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3582, in which you said: “The London Resilience Forum maintains a Structural Collapse Framework (last fully revised in 2021). This Framework and response capability is maintained in response to the risk of structural collapse in general. We intend to hold a roundtable meeting with relevant partner organisations in coming weeks to consider the implications of a structural collapse involving RAAC and any additional resilience work that may be required.” Could you tell me where the Structural Collapse Framework is published, and when the roundtable meeting took place and where the minutes are...