• Reference: 2023/0919
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Do you know if any the London bus drivers who received a retention bonus under your Mayor’s Decision 2592, taken on 2 March 2020, and in advance of the scheduled election, later died of Covid-19? If so, how many?

• Reference: 2023/0918
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to question 2022/2673, you refused my request to release 'Route Risk Assessment Information' for the 175 bus routes you confirmed lacked toilet dignity because of ‘confidentiality’ and ‘commercial reasons’. Can you confirm if any of these 'Route Risk Assessments' even mention the lack of bus drivers’ toilets as a risk? If not, how can this key safety performance information qualify as a commercial secret?

• Reference: 2023/0917
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

For the 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 serious bus safety incidents resulted in bus drivers being prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service?

• Reference: 2023/0916
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

For the 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 serious bus safety incidents resulted in bus drivers being disciplined by their bus operator employers? How many of these 3,879 serious bus safety incidents resulted in bus drivers being fired by their bus operator employers?

• Reference: 2023/0915
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Following up on your response to question 2022/3470, your response to question 2022/5355 doesn’t show - as I requested - Imperial College’s International Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) informing TfL about the failure of its Covid-19 bus worker death benchmarking exercise, but rather shows IBBG making minor redactions to what looks like a press release authored by TfL. Am I right to assume that TfL’s reluctance for IBBG to continue with this exercise emanated less from conceptual difficulties surrounding this specific data and more around the fact that the available evidence showed that, when compared to its ‘world city’ peers, London...

• Reference: 2023/0914
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

During the 5-year period from FY 2016/17 to FY 2021/22, how many reports has TfL received of bus drivers driving by or refusing to board mobility-impaired customers? Please provide a spreadsheet showing the total reports received on an annual basis according to TfL’s financial year.

• Reference: 2023/0913
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

For years, I have been reading reports from mobility-impaired customers about how they have been left waiting at bus stops after bus drivers have failed to stop or have refused to allow them to board. Before introducing its time-and-availability-based bus contract incentives, did TfL ever analyse how these incentives might impact upon TfL’s ability to comply with the Equality Act? If so, can you provide me with this important analysis?

• Reference: 2023/0912
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

Your response to question 2022/5365 gives credence to the point I raised in 2022/3474 that bus safety incidents with the capacity to cause death or life-changing injuries may be directly linked to lack of toilet dignity for bus drivers. How can you reconcile the ‘evidence-led’ mission of your Vision Zero programme with the lack of investigation into the impact of lack of toilet dignity on half of London’s bus routes, and the 'Operational Safety Performance' of TfL’s contracted bus fleet?

• Reference: 2023/0911
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to question 2022/5356, you mentioned that the outcomes of the University of Surrey independent review of Fatigue Risk Assessment Tools had been concluded and ‘are being discussed with the bus operators to agree next steps’. Is the recognised bus drivers' union, Unite the Union, included in discussions at this stage? If not, why?

• Reference: 2023/0910
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In your response to question 2022/5356, you stated TfL conducts an established programme of compliance audits and assurance exercises to determine London Bus operating companies’ adherence to 'UK Domestic Drivers Hours' rules. For the period 1 January 2022 to 31 January 2022, how many compliance audits and assurance exercises did TfL carry out? Did TfL discover that any London Bus operator was violating 'UK Domestic Drivers Hours' rules? If so, what action did TfL take against the operator?