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Assistance to Taxi Drivers

  • Reference: 2021/4514
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
Does the Mayor have a plan to provide assistance to taxi drivers who are unable to source vehicles due to the decrease in the taxi fleet?

Taxi App Fees

  • Reference: 2021/4513
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
In July 2019, TfL management promised to provide the taxi trade with a substantive response to the issue of taxi app fees. Why have they failed to provide that response?

Updated Organisation Chart of TfL Surface Transport

  • Reference: 2021/4512
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
With the appointment of Louise Cheeseman as Director of Buses, please provide me with an Organisation Chart of TfL Surface Transport with names and contact details of the relevant executives which shows their direct and indirect reporting lines to the Commissioner and MD for Surface Transport.

Sharon Graham request to “do something” regarding Unite’s Dispute with Go Ahead Northwest

  • Reference: 2021/4511
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
Please respond to Question 2021/3718.

TfL’s Ignorance about Covid-19 Risks for Bus Drivers from Ferry Driving

  • Reference: 2021/4510
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
In your response to Question 2021/3880 you have chosen to apparently ignore evidence presented by London bus drivers, their surviving families and national health experts—broadcast on a 28 September BBC File On Four Programme—to make a number of broad claims about how ferry driving Covid-19 risk was mitigated during the pandemic, e.g.— (a) "The bus operators who used ferry vehicles to transport drivers between garages and changeover points – often for only a short period - followed the prevailing guidance issued by Public Health England (PHE) at different points of the pandemic. (b) They undertook a range of steps to...

Obstructing the London Assembly’s Statutory Right to Scrutinise TfL Decision-Making under your terms as Chair (3)

  • Reference: 2021/4509
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
In your long-delayed 25 August response to 24 June Question 2021/2356, you stated: "Recruitment is underway for Transport for London’s (TfL) Director of Bus Operations role. This is a competitive internal and external recruitment campaign to ensure TfL finds a suitable candidate. TfL will provide an update once an individual has been appointed to the role.” On 18 October, in response to Question 2021/3888 you stated: "Following a competitive recruitment process, Transport for London (TfL) appointed Louise Cheeseman as the new Director of Buses. Louise joined TfL on Monday 2 August.” However, a 13 July article in Intelligent Transport https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-news/126575/louise-chees…...

Obstructing the London Assembly’s Statutory Right to Scrutinise TfL Decision-Making under your terms as Chair (2)

  • Reference: 2021/4508
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
In your response to Question 2021/3715 you mistakenly suggest that documentation contained in your response to 2020/1727 responds to my question, yet that information contains no mention about the scaling back of safety visits by TfL staff to bus depots or buses themselves. In fact, it doesn’t mention bus depots at all. Am I to assume that your misleading response is confirmation that there is no documentation to support the Deputy Mayor’s written statement that TfL’s decision to scale back safety visits to bus depots “was not taken lightly”? I am concerned that you appear to be obstructing the London...

Obstructing the London Assembly’s Statutory Right to Scrutinise TfL’s Decision-Making under your terms as Chair (1)

  • Reference: 2021/4507
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
Following up on your response to Question 2021/3881, in your response to Question 2021/0121, you admitted that TfL “does not hold copies of these Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises” a fact confirmed by TfL’s Chief Safety Officer on 10 June and clearly reflected in TfL’s published transcript of that meeting (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tfl_discussion_about_10_june_202). Meanwhile, TfL’s response to FOI-0945-1718 dated 7 November 2017 clearly states: "Operators have provided 104 risk assessments to us from the start of 2016 as part of the route re-tendering process or following operational changes that result in new or emerging issues being added or updated. Our Framework...

Playing politics with TfL Bus Safety Data

  • Reference: 2021/4506
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
Further to your response to Question 2021/3885 and your continued failure to respond to Questions 2021/3882, 2021/3883 and 2021/3884, in the interest of facilitating independent scrutiny of TfL Bus Safety Performance, will you assure that all Quarterly Bus Safety Data published by TfL will also be made available on TfL’s website in a downloadable generic spreadsheet format?

TfL Having No Transcripts for Critical Safety Meetings

  • Reference: 2021/4505
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
TfL’s response to FOI-1391-2122 evidences that TfL both recorded and published a transcript of my 10 June meeting with TfL’s Chief Safety Officer and her colleagues. How can you reconcile TfL’s decision both to record and publish a transcript of that meeting when, in your responses to Questions 2021/0124, 2021/0541, and 2021/3728, you claim that TfL has no written records or minutes of, respectively— a) a Debate over Covid-19 Risk Reduction Interventions (https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2021/0124); b) Minutes of Regular Conference Calls about Covid-19 Risk Reduction Actions TfL held with Bus Operator and Union Officials, March 2020 to present (https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2021/0541); c) TfL Corporate...
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