• Reference: 2023/3649
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Your responses to my question 2023/2824 did not address the question I asked: how do you reconcile your decision not to impose a maximum safe bus cab temperature on London’s bus operators ‘because it’s not within your remit as Mayor of London’ with the various decisions you have taken which push the boundary of your powers? In my view, bus driver, passenger and road user lives are put at risk by your lack of action on this matter. Will you provide me with a copy of the legal opinion which precludes your ability to act on this matter in the...

• Reference: 2023/3648
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

My request in question 2023/2819 was simple: will you ensure that the Commissioner’s Report for future Board Meetings will mention the people who’ve been hospitalised from bus safety incidents in the preceding period? However, your response had nothing to do with my request. Will you now respond to my request?

• Reference: 2023/3647
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Justice Fraser's 27 July 2023 sentencing remarks make it clear that TfL and First Group long ignored tram safety concerns expressed by passengers and Croydon Tram employees and that their failure to do so contributed to making Sandilands “an accident waiting to happen”. Furthermore, evidence that I’ve obtained from Mayor’s Questions and concerned members of the public confirms to me that TfL ignored tram drivers’ concerns about fatigue caused by rotas. In addition, TfL’s own audits identified fatigue management at TOL as an area in need of improvement. In my time as an Assembly Member, I can’t help but notice...

• Reference: 2023/3646
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Given your responses to questions 2023/3362 and 2023/3363, and the statements made by Justice Fraser in his 27 July 2023 Sentencing Remarks, it’s apparent to me that from the time TfL acquired Croydon Tramlink in September 2008, both parties were in disagreement about the terms of their never-executed Operating Agreement and I think that, because they were still negotiating core terms of their commercial relationship until November 2017, both parties appeared to have ignored primary safety oversight and performance obligations because neither party felt these obligations were a responsibility. This, in my view, degraded the trams operations so that Sandilands...

• Reference: 2023/3645
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

How many foreign trips have you completed since you have been in office? Please provide a breakdown of trips and costs to the GLA, miles travelled, and emissions produced.

• Reference: 2023/3644
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Since we all have to ‘do our bit’ for climate change, and you have forced Londoners with non-compliant vehicles in outer London to pay your ULEZ charge, do you believe it is value for money or indeed fair to fly to New York to talk about climate change?

• Reference: 2023/3643
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

How much has the advertising budget increased by for London and Partners for each year since 2016?

• Reference: 2023/3642
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

How much funding has been given by the GLA to London and Partners this year so far? Please provide a breakdown of how much has been allocated to London & Partners from the GLA for each year since 2016.

• Reference: 2023/3641
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Please can you provide a breakdown of the price of the accommodation for yourself and staff who travelled on the September 2023 New York trip and who paid for it?

• Reference: 2023/3640
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

How many GLA staff travelled on the September 2023 New York trip?