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Savings already made to support the TfL funding deal

  • Reference: 2022/2933
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
You have now agreed a funding deal with the Government for Transport for London (TfL) that goes up to 2023-24. Under this agreement, TfL said that it has: “had to identify measures which allow us to balance our budget.” Could you outline each of these savings with a brief description of how each will contribute to the £740 million gap TfL has identified?

Healthy Streets investment up to 2023-24

  • Reference: 2022/2932
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
You have now agreed a funding deal with the Government for Transport for London (TfL) that goes up to 2023-24. Under this agreement, what will your funding by year be for: a) Liveable Neighbourhoods, b) Local Implementation Plan (LIP) Majors, c) Local Implementation Plan (LIP) Corridors, d) Crossrail Complementary Measures, e) Borough Cycling, f) Streetspace, and other short-term funding, and g) other London-wide Healthy Streets funding?

Audit of bus cooling systems

  • Reference: 2022/2931
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
I understand from a bus driver that Transport for London (TfL) conducted a spot check on the status of air conditioning on buses after a complaint from a bus driver on LBC Radio. What were the results of this audit, and how many buses were reported for rectification?

Excessively hot bus driver conditions

  • Reference: 2022/2930
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Bus drivers are reporting unacceptable conditions on Transport for London (TfL) buses due to the recent heatwaves, with temperatures in excess of 40 degrees. What should a driver do when their workplace becomes unreasonably hot?

Suspension of private hire licenses following facial recognition failure (3)

  • Reference: 2022/2929
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/1883 asking about Transport for London (TfL) licensed private hire drivers who had their licenses suspended or revoked by TfL between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2022 potentially related to a private hire operator's facial recognition identity check. To help Londoners understand the processes involved, will you consider re-examining these 358 cases and telling me how many of these TfL decisions were solely based on facial recognition identity checks by private hire operators?

Suspension of private hire licenses following facial recognition failure (2)

  • Reference: 2022/2928
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/1883 asking about Transport for London (TfL) licensed private hire drivers who had their licenses suspended or revoked by TfL between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2022 potentially related to a private hire operator's facial recognition identity check. Given Microsoft’s subsequent withdrawal of the facial recognition technology used by Uber, what safeguards and precautions have you taken to ensure that unreliable technology isn’t leading to licenses being suspended or revoked?

Energy and carbon reporting for TfL

  • Reference: 2022/2927
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
The Transport for London (TfL) draft statement for accounts for 2021-22 includes a summary of streamlined energy and carbon reporting for the whole of TfL. Could you supply a table of this data for each year since 2000?

Initial payment amount for the Silvertown Road Tunnel contract

  • Reference: 2022/2926
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
The draft Transport for London (TfL) Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022 state, as in the notes to these statements in previous years, that the PFI payments to Riverlinx Limited for the Silvertown Road Tunnel will commence upon opening in 2025 at £65 million per year. The Project Agreement schedule 20, which covers payments, is completely redacted (https://content.tfl.gov.uk/silvertown-tunnel-schedule-20-payment-mechan…), but could you confirm that this initial payment is set at this cash amount and not index linked from the date of signing the agreement in 2019?

Maps for onward journeys from stations on foot

  • Reference: 2022/2925
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Could you provide details of how Transport for London (TfL) currently provides maps and other information at its stations in order to guide people on making onward journeys on foot?

Monitoring air pollution at City Hall

  • Reference: 2022/2924
  • Question by: Siân Berry
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Have you installed any air pollution monitoring equipment or diffusion tubes around the estate of our new City Hall? If so, could you provide details of all the data gathered since this work began, for each pollutant monitored?
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