• Reference: 2023/1329
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Do you think that it is fair to ask taxi drivers to accept, effectively, a wage freeze in a cost of living crisis despite the soaring cost of inflation and fuel?

• Reference: 2023/1328
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

On the 2nd of March, the Evening Standard reported that: “London taxi fares are to rise in bid to ensure enough cabs available to help women get home safely at night. They say the increase is higher than the hike in train, Tubes and bus fares.” Yet the increase, given by the TfL Board, only just matches the increase in the cost of a taxi and the expense of running one, according to the Taxi Tariff Cost Index used to calculate fares. TfL have offered a 4.2% wage increase generally to their own staff, but are effectively offering taxi drivers...

• Reference: 2023/1327
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

My question 2020/2699 specifically asked you if you would ensure that representatives of London bus drivers, TfL’s Safety Sustainability and Human Resources Panel and the London Assembly Transport Committee would be allowed to attend the Safety Bus Quarterly Meetings—cf. question 2022/3991 and your letter to the Assembly of 19 October 2022—as observers, and you did not responded to my question. Please can you respond to my specific question?

• Reference: 2023/1326
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Following your responses to, inter alia, questions 2022/3472, 2022/4168, 2022/2672, 2022/2678, 2022/2679, 2022/2680, 2022/268, 2022/2682 and 2022/2683 and your unsatisfactory responses to questions 2023/0909 and 2023/0921, please can you provide me with TfL's— A) Legal Opinion that states that the 'priority classification’ for bus driver toilets “agreed with Unite, the bus driver union, and bus operators has been long established and agreed as part of a regular working group held with these stakeholders” fully satisfies the legal requirements of the following laws which oblige the provision of toilet facilities for workers: - The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act...

• Reference: 2023/1325
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Following up on your responses to, inter alia, questions 2022/2972 and 2022/1634, what are the key results of TfL’s Fatigue, Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge? How are results measured? How and when will the results be replicated?

• Reference: 2023/1324
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Following up on your refusal—in your response to question 2022/2972— to commission an updated ‘Bus Driver Fatigue’ study to include the impact of Covid-19 and your admission in your delayed response to question 2022/2973 that TfL has yet to conduct a short term review of shift lengths, patterns and rotas as recommended by the UCL HSE Phase 2 Study in March 2021, how is TfL measuring the effectiveness of its ‘Bus Driver Health and Wellbeing Programme’? Is a bus driver’s participation in this programme mandatory or voluntary? If so, what percentage of the bus driver population is currently participating?

• Reference: 2023/1323
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In April 2020, as you revealed in your responses to questions 2023/0111 and 2023/0107, masks and gloves were provided to Dial-a-Ride drivers, despite this not being required under PHE regulations at the time. In answer to question 2022/1630, you stated that bus drivers in contracted-out services and Dial-A-Ride drivers "undertook a similar role”. Despite this, throughout April, May and June 2020, you not only did not require bus companies to issue PPE to their drivers, but even asked those that had started to do so to stop, and to stop undertaking temperature checks of their drivers, as revealed in point...

• Reference: 2023/1322
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In your response to question 2023/0111, you stated “One operator introduced temperature testing and another introduced a small short-term test at the request of Unite, and reported on that to TfL and the union. This was not in line with PHE or TfL advice at that time.” Please can you provide me with a copy of any reports, report drafts and all correspondence associated with these two actions reported to TfL ‘not in line with PHE or TfL advice at that time’?

• Reference: 2023/1321
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Following up on your response to question 2022/5357, please can you provide some evidence of why TfL publishing anonymised and/or aggregate data showing the (a) exact number of bus drivers who’ve been subjected to disciplinary hearings; and (b) the outcomes of these hearings for the at least 56 people who have been killed and 3823 people sent to hospital after bus safety incidents since you became Mayor, will “undermine the trust and safety culture that TfL is working hard to build across the bus operating companies”?

• Reference: 2023/1320
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

The information you provided in your response to question 2022/4172, in my view, shows that TfL may have provided its response to question 2022/2973 to your office on 7 September 2022. Why did you inform the London Assembly on 21 September “Officers are preparing an answer” instead of publishing it forthwith?