• 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...

• Reference: 2022/3467
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In your response to Question 2022/2973, you mentioned “TfL has commissioned the University of Surrey to undertake a review of fatigue risk assessment tools.” Please provide me with the complete terms of reference and all internal communications (memorandums, emails, notes) related to the initiation and conduct of this ‘review’.

• Reference: 2022/3466
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Following up on your response to Question 2022/2975, how would TfL publishing annual data showing ‘High Level’ outcomes of disciplinary hearings involving bus drivers involved in safety incidents that could cause (or have caused) death or serious injury “undermine the trust and safety culture that TfL is working hard to build across the bus operating companies.”? Given the stated goals of your Vision Zero Programme, why wouldn’t any bus operator that objected to such transparency and evidence of a safety culture be disqualified from participating in TfL route tenders?

• Reference: 2022/3465
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

If, as TfL has indicated, the air conditioning units on 15 percent of the buses investigated by Logistics UK failed to pass inspection in November 2021, why was this problem not fixed by summer 2022?

• Reference: 2022/3464
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

By bus operator and bus garage, please identify both the number of buses investigated for working air condition and the number of buses investigated which failed the checks, with the bus model and manufacturer identified

• Reference: 2022/3463
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Despite your failure to answer Question 2022/2993, I have seen an email from TfL’s Bus Director which states “In November 2021, TfL conducted a review of the air conditioning units of approximately 10% of the bus fleet – over 850 buses. These inspections checked for air output and the condition of the pump/drive belts. 85% of vehicles passed the checks and where faults were identified they were reported to the relevant operators for rectification.” Please provide me with the complete Terms of Reference and all internal communications (memorandums, emails, notes) related to the initiation and conduct of this investigation, as...