• Reference: 2025/3524
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Could you tell me how much funding Transport for London (TfL) has provided for the teaching of cycling control skills and safe road riding to adults and children for the following financial years: 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25? Could you provide the information in table format for year, borough, amount of funding, number of hours of cycle instruction delivered to children and to adults, and pay rate for instructors?

• Reference: 2025/3523
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

An impact of the increased traffic and resulting congestion from the September 2025 DSEI arms fair at ExCel London, was that bus drivers for the Silvertown Road Tunnel cross-river cycle-shuttle were unable to park at the City Hall end. This then affected their ability to use the toilets they have access to there, meaning drivers had to wait to use the toilets at the other end of the route. What measures did you take to assess how additional vehicles relating to the arms fair around ExCel would impact the Silvertown Road Tunnel cross-river cycle-shuttle and bus driver shifts?

• Reference: 2025/3522
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

A constituent has raised their frustration at the “repeated closure of Pimlico Underground Station on Thursday 26th, Friday 27th, and Saturday 28th June 2025 due to staff shortages.” Transport for London (TfL) has told me that: “there have been occasions recently where we have not had sufficient resources to keep Pimlico station open safely. We have been allocating resources from different parts of the network but this means there is a short period whereby staff need to receive the relevant training and familiarisation in order to run the station safely and confidently. We are confident this will bring back resilience...

• Reference: 2025/3521
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

At the roundtable event that I held for the launch of my July 2025 report, Changing the Narrative: Ending the acceptance of road death in London, a key point raised by attendees was that disability is not one of the road safety statistics collected and published by Government, nor is it in the STATS19 data recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after a collision. Will you lobby the Government and the MPS to record and publish whether anyone killed or seriously injured in collisions is disabled?

• Reference: 2025/3520
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Vehicle information collected by Government includes weight, amongst other factors in the data, yet this is not included in the published road safety statistics, or in the STATS19 data gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after a collision. Recent research has shown that, when involved in a crash, the weight of a vehicle has an impact on whether people are killed and on the level of any serious injuries sustained [cross ref MQ 2025/1799]. Will you lobby the Government and the MPS to collect and publish data on the weight of vehicles involved in collisions, so the impact of...

• Reference: 2025/3519
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

A constituent has shared with me their horror at seeing a BAE System advert for its military drones on the Transport for London (TfL) network, specifically at Westminster Tube station. Clearly, this advert is aimed at the politicians and civil servants working in and around the Houses of Parliament. Given the loss of life and injuries associated with military drones in conflicts in Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, Gaza and elsewhere, what justification does TfL have for approving this advert?

• Reference: 2025/3518
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

I was pleased to see the advertising campaign from Transport for London (TfL) announced on 16 September 2025: TfL launches new poster campaign to raise awareness of Highway Code rules, helping to keep Londoners safe on the capital’s roads. However, I was disappointed to see the new campaign missed further opportunities to address road danger reduction, specifically these two rules which were introduced in 2022: Rule 163 on ‘close passing’, that drivers “leave at least 1.5 metres when overtaking cyclists at speeds of up to 30mph, and give them more space when overtaking at higher speeds”, and Rule 66 that...

• Reference: 2025/3517
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

A constituent has raised that: “In theory, there is a Londonwide ban on footway parking. In practice, most councils, for example, Bexley, will not enforce footway parking if it's on private land, such as shop forecourts. As a result, my local high street has cars parked on the pavement.” What action could you take, working with boroughs, to ensure footways are kept clear of parked vehicles so everyone can get around safely?

• Reference: 2025/3516
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Transport for London (TfL) has told me (via email) that: “if an e-bike does not have its battery connected then it is not classed as an e-bike for the purposes of TfL’s ban on non-foldable e-bikes. Therefore, in these circumstances, the standard cycle restrictions would apply to such a device.” However, in a separate email to me TfL says it: “advises customers against carrying e-bike batteries with them due to the safety risks this could present.” The TfL conditions of carriage address customers carrying dangerous items, saying: “You must not bring with you anything that: you are unable to carry...

• Reference: 2025/3515
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

A constituent has asked for you to explain what is causing the delays in granting approval for Polaska's Purley Pool scheme, and could you make public the details of the directors behind Polaska's BVI-registered parent company?