• Reference: 2023/0937
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

What is the status of the West London Orbital Rail project?

• Reference: 2023/0936
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Please could you provide the latest research you have on the volume of food waste across London? If possible, please provide trends over time and break down by type of waste and give statistics by borough if available.

• Reference: 2023/0935
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Londoners have some of the highest average weekly wages. However, it appears that you have failed to encourage more businesses to become London Living Wage employers. Can you please confirm the number of London Living Wage employers in London by year since 2016?

• Reference: 2023/0934
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Can you please tell us any data you hold on the ratio of private sector jobs to public sector jobs in London?

• Reference: 2023/0933
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

According to the ONS, London has the highest start up rate of new businesses per 100,000 population but also one of the highest closure rates for businesses in the country. Please demonstrate with data what impact, if any, your policies have had on either business openings or closures.

• Reference: 2023/0932
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Gross Value-Added (GVA) per hour in London lags behind other smaller cities in the UK. What policies have you put in place to increase London’s GVA?

• Reference: 2023/0931
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Based on the data published by TfL in its Bus Safety Data Release, can you confirm if TfL buses were involved in a third of cyclist deaths from motor vehicles in London in 2022?

• Reference: 2023/0930
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

For period from 1 April 2016 to 31 December 2021 at least 56 people were killed and 3,823 people were sent to hospital in potentially preventable bus safety incidents. How many of these 3,879 bus safety incidents involved bus drivers who were working on their rest days?

• Reference: 2023/0929
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to question 2022/5400 you state, “there is no specified upper workplace temperature limit in UK regulations”. The UK Government has issued clear guidance for shipping livestock (cf. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/keeping-farm-animals-and-horses-in-extreme-…) that expressly states "you should not transport animals in temperatures over 30°C”. Will you assure London’s bus drivers that they will not be required to drive – and will also suffer no consequences from their employer for refusing to drive – any London bus with a cab temperature that exceeds that for safe transport of livestock in the UK?

• Reference: 2023/0928
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to question 2022/5399 you stated that the only data that is “appropriate for sharing” publicly is the ‘Timeliness and Availability Data’ incentivised and enforced by TfL bus contracts. How can you talk about a “safety culture” at TfL and its bus operators when you seemingly restrict public scrutiny to data that contains no safety performance metrics?