• Reference: 2021/4511
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Please respond to Question 2021/3718.

• 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...

• 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…...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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?

• 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...

• Reference: 2021/4504
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Despite your failure to provide the information I requested in Question 2021/3886, TfL has responded to FOI-1391-2122 on 27 October (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tfl_discussion_about_10_june_202) which, inter alia, clearly evidences that TfL recorded and internally published a full transcript of my 10 June 2021 Meeting with Chief Safety Officer, Head of Bus Business Development, Head of Health & Wellbeing and Senior Bus Safety Development Manager. Is it customary for TfL to record and publish transcripts of meetings with outside parties without (a) seeking prior permission from them (b) allowing those parties to review and confirm the accuracy of the meeting transcript?

• Reference: 2021/4503
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

In your response to Question 2021/3887, you stated “There have not been any instances in the last five years where TfL has required an operator to put an [Safety] action plan in place”. In the wake of frequent public reports from London bus drivers about unsanitary and fatigue-inducing working conditions during your five-year term as TfL Chair, have you considered that TfL’s apparent complacency in monitoring the health and safety conditions of London bus drivers might explain why they continued to have excess mortality from Covid-19 long after the March 2020 lockdown?

• Reference: 2021/4502
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Further to your responses to Question 2019/21052 and 2021/2354 and your failure to respond to Question 2021/3889, when will you give me a firm date as to when TfL’s Chief Safety Officer will have gained the appropriate Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) and Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) accreditations that the public might presume to be a mandatory minimum pre-qualification for even being considered for that important post?