• Reference: 2021/3886
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

A published 23 July letter from the Deputy Mayor for Transport to a London bus driver (http://saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2021/08/speaking-out-against-lond…) clearly states “I understand you and Assembly Member Keith Prince met with Transport for London (TfL) staff on June 10 to discuss bus driver safety during the pandemic.” Please provide me with any emails or memos from TfL executives to Heidi Alexander detailing preparations for and reporting any discussions which took place at that 10 June meeting.

• Reference: 2021/3885
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

In 2019, just after GMB Union published its analysis of 5 Years of TfL Bus Safety Data, TfL delayed publication of this data for an entire year, a point raised in Question 2020/0012. Then, you stated the reasons for the delay were “due to changes being made to systems that are designed to upgrade the production of reports and improve their timeliness and accuracy in the long term.” When you were questioned why TfL was again a year behind in publishing this data for 2020 in Question 2021/0559, you stated, “With regards to detailed Bus Safety data, I understand that...

• Reference: 2021/3884
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Which TfL executive is responsible for the decision to remove downloadable quarterly bussafety data spreadsheets from TfL’s website?

• Reference: 2021/3883
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Please provide me with the emails, decision memorandums and meeting agendas associated with TfL’s decision to remove downloadable quarterly bus safety data spreadsheets from its website.

• Reference: 2021/3882
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

In response to Question 2021/0559 you stated, “Unfortunately, the compilation of this [Quarterly Bus Safety] data has historically been a resource-intensive task, but TfL is examining ways in which the process can be simplified, while retaining the appropriate level of detail. These changes, which TfL will complete in the coming months, will address this matter.” A recent review of TfL’s Bus Safety Data site shows that all the downloadable quarterly bus safety data spreadsheets since 2014 have been removed and replaced with a “Bus Safety Dashboard” which does not allow the user, inter alia, to aggregate and analyse datasets outside...

• Reference: 2021/3881
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Given your: (a) admission in your response to Question 2021/0121 that TfL “does not hold copies of these Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises”; and (b) refusal in your response to Question 2021/0122 to provide “copies of all documentation (emails, directives, decisions and handwritten notes) pertaining to TfL’s discussions—with Bus Operators, Unite the Union and, if applicable, the ORR and Health & Safety Executive—of Covid-19 Risk Assessments for TfL Bus Depots/Garages”, is it the case that TfL does not have such documents because they don’t exist? Do you agree with me that, if that is indeed the case, TfL has...

• Reference: 2021/3880
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

During the 28 September BBC Radio 4 broadcast “Occupational Hazard: The bus drivers who died from Covid”, after being told by File on 4 that bus drivers were taken to work in ferry cars with their colleagues, public health expert Professor John Ashton stated, “This is a recipe for spread of the virus in those groups…shocking and in my view completely negligent’. Given that you admitted in response to Question 2021/0544 that TfL didn’t hold its bus operators’ Covid-19 risk assessments for ferry driving, do you agree with Professor Ashton’s assessment?

• Reference: 2021/3879
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

On 28 September, BBC Radio 4 broadcast “Occupational Hazard: The bus drivers who died from Covid”, which featured interviews with former TfL Board Member and Safety Panel Chair Michael Liebreich, bus driver Kevin Mustafa and public health expert John Ashton, each stating that TfL and its bus contractors are largely to blame for the high fatality rate of bus drivers from Covid-19 which the UCL Institute of Health Equity reports continued long after the March 2020 lockdown. Did you listen to the broadcast? What are your views on its main messages?

• Reference: 2021/3878
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

What assessment has the Mayor made of the potential for drop-in HVO green diesel to replace fossil diesel on transport and non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) so as to improve air quality in and around HS2 construction sites such as those at Euston and Old Oak Common?

• Reference: 2021/3877
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Will the Mayor take immediate steps to mandate that all HGVs which use routes in the immediate vicinity of school playgrounds or other youth recreational facilities are obliged to use drop-in HVO green diesel instead of fossil diesel following the recent coroners court ruling concerning Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in Lewisham?