• Reference: 2022/3477
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

A GLA press release announced on the 2nd September 2022, “The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled bold plans to use the £9.5bn combined purchasing power of the Greater London Authority Group to help make the capital greener and fairer for all Londoners”. Is this just a grandiose way of saying you are changing procurement rules?

• Reference: 2022/3476
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

The Government’s Public Consultation on the Proposed Changes to Motoring Offences Sentencing Guidelines closed on 29 September. Did you support the—in my view—'Vision Zero’- friendly' changes to the Sentencing Guideline, including, but not limited to, the enhancements to the culpability and aggravating factors involving sentencing to death or injury by dangerous and/or careless driving?

• Reference: 2022/3475
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

It is my understanding that TfL and UCL are working in ‘partnership’ to conduct a joint study ‘to understand the thermal comfort on buses in a controlled climatic test chamber with a number of passengers on board’. Please provide me with all background correspondence, terms of reference and documentation associated with this study as well as all drafts and a final version of this report.

• Reference: 2022/3474
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Your response to Question 2022/2687 is an evidence-free assertion and not the documentary evidence (third party studies, in-house analysis) that I requested and that would prove that TfL denying adequate toilet facilities on a quarter of London’s bus routes has or (has had) no impact on safety performance. Do you have such information? If not, why not?

• Reference: 2022/3473
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Please provide me with a copy of the “Agreement” between TfL, the bus operators and Unite the Union about lack of toilet provision referred to in your responses to questions 2022/2672, 2022/3679, 2022/2680, 2022/2681 and 2022/2682. In addition, please provide me with any background documentation (emails, memos, minutes) related to the drafting and execution of the said Agreement.

• Reference: 2022/3472
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In your responses to questions 2022/2672, 2022/2679, 2022/2680, 2022/2681 and 2022/2682 you assert that “TfL has agreed this criterion [for lack of toilet provision] with the bus drivers’ union, Unite, and bus operators’” yet you have not provided me with any documentary evidence—any guidance, criteria, analysis, list of principles—TfL, its bus operators and Unite the Union have agreed to uses to allow bus drivers to operate buses on routes without toilets. Please provide me with this documentary evidence – scientific research, emails, meeting minutes—which demonstrates what (if any) thought has gone into this manifestly unsafe and inhumane decision.

• Reference: 2022/3471
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Will you admit that your responses to Question 2022/2686, where you stated “Transport for London do not collect data on the percentage of female drivers per route” and Question 2020/2688 where you stated “Andy Lord, as Transport for London’s (TfL) Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for both the operation of the bus network and the management of the assets that support operations. The assets include toilet facilities provided to bus drivers” suggest that, for the over 25 percent of London Bus Routes that lack a toilet at one end, TfL might be violating the Equality Act and could find itself...

• Reference: 2022/3470
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In response to Question 2021/2853, you stated “The International Bus Benchmarking Group Covid-19 benchmarking is now being carried out by Imperial College London and the results are expected in late 2021. Transport for London will publish the results of this benchmarking once it is available and has been checked for accuracy and the anonymisation of other cities’ data.” It is October 2022: when will TfL published this IBBG Study for public scrutiny?

• Reference: 2022/3469
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

How can you reconcile your refusal to publish the International Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) study you cited in your response to Question 2022/2689 on the grounds that “information provided by IBBG members is confidential”, with the publication of anonymised IBBG information in response to Questions 2019/17335 and 2020/3828 and on TfL’s website as well? In accordance with past practice and TfL’s Transparency policy, will you publish an anonymised version of this IBBG study for public scrutiny?

• Reference: 2022/3468
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In your response to Question 2022/2973, I was shocked to learn that TfL has failed to conduct “a short-term review of shift lengths, patterns and rotas” for London bus drivers as recommended in UCL’s Phase 2 report to which TfL responded on 19 March 2021. Should I conclude that TfL’s inexplicable 18-month delay on commissioning an independent expert to carry out this simple task recommended by UCL is due to TfL’s fear that the public will be made aware that the shift lengths, patterns and rotas implemented by bus operators and approved by Unite the Union for years are responsible...