• Reference: 2021/4768
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Keepers of vehicles registered with a 'disabled' or 'disabled passenger vehicles' tax class benefit from a grace period where they are exempt from paying the ULEZ charge until 26 October 2025. This is valid as long as their vehicle doesn't change tax class. Will you encourage DVLA to actively inform disabled people of this entitlement?

• Reference: 2021/4767
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

In TfL’s recent list of contracts exceeding £0.5 million, it states that there is a need for a New Routemaster Driver Seat Mechanism Requirement to replace failing driver seat mechanisms as part of the NRM refurbishment. Please set out the details of this failing and when it was first identified.

• Reference: 2021/4766
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

In TfL’s lists of contracts over £0.5 million, it states that as part of the New Routemaster refurbishment project there may be a business requirement for an independent body to carry our pre- and post-refurbishment inspections for quality assurances. Is this a normal procedure or a reflection on the repeated technical problems that have faced the New Routemaster buses?

• Reference: 2021/4765
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

In TfL’s current contracts over £0.5 million, it states that 1000 New Routemaster buses owned by TfL and operated by third party bus operators are due their mid-life refurbishment. Please set out in detail what this refurbishment will involve?

• Reference: 2021/4764
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Has the Department for Transport longer semi-trailers trial been operated in London and, if so, has any safety evaluation been undertaken specifically relating to their use on London’s roads?

• Reference: 2021/4763
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Please publish a table showing how many current temporary employees at Transport for London have been engaged via employment agencies and paid through Personal Service Companies for (a) less than 3 months, (b) 3 to 6 months, (c) 6 to 12 months, (d) 12 to 18 months, (e) 18 months to 2 years, (f) 2 to 3 years, (g) 3 to 4 years, (h) 4 to 5 years, (i) 5 to 6 years, (j) 6 to 7 years, (k) over seven years. Please also break down the figures for each time period showing how many employees in each category were...

• Reference: 2021/4762
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Since the decision to allow pedestrians and cyclists to start using Hammersmith Bridge again, what has been the monthly cost of the agreed contract for an Uber boat ferry service not operating? Please provide a breakdown of all the main costs.

• Reference: 2021/4761
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

You have committed to a review of the policy and process around major estate regeneration ballots. What discussions are you having with residents on estates where ballots have taken place, especially estates like Love Lane in Tottenham, where worrying complaints have been made about the process and approach that has been taken?

• Reference: 2021/4760
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

The GLA website at present appears to show an inconsistency in the updates of gifts and hospitality and the register of interests for Deputy Mayors, with some records not having been publicly updated since 2018/19. Will you ensure that publication of this information is consistent and kept up to update?

• Reference: 2021/4759
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Given your ambition to reach net zero by 2030 are you satisfied to see use of gas boilers in this GLA funded project, which is unlikely to be opened before late 2022?