• Reference: 2021/3729
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In the documents you provided in response to Question 2021/1979, there is an email written in response to the RAIB’s 24 January 2017 request for “not yet finished” IA 16767 that is completely blacked-out. Please outline a) who wrote that email, b) who was sent that email, c) what was the subject of that email and d) what was the date and time-stamp on that email? Please explain why the contents of this email are protected from public scrutiny?

• Reference: 2021/3728
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In your responses to Question 2020/4094 and Question 2020/4625 you have consistently stated that “all decisions whether to undertake or to discontinue an audit were taken by Transport for London Internal Audit”. However, in internal TfL correspondence discovered in your delayed response to 2021/1979, a minute of the 28 November 2016 meeting between the Director of Internal Audit and TfL’s Corporate Counsel clearly evidences that meeting was where the decision to cancel IA 16767 was taken. Please provide me with all correspondence – for example decision memorandums, emails, meeting notes (including handwritten) – associated with that 28 November 2016 meeting...

• Reference: 2021/3727
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In your oral responses to questioning about IA 16767 from Keith Prince on 26 October 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEC1tARvmI) and 19 November 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DTvdpyQn4&t=14s) and your responses to Mayor’s Question 2020/4096, Question 2021/0537 and Question 2021/1971, you have consistently stated that “evidence gathering was nearing completion” on IA 16767. However, in correspondence dated 24 November 2016 from TfL to RAIB discovered in your delayed response to Question 2021/1979 it is clearly stated that “the audit field work has been completed”. Did you - on numerous occasions - intentionally misled the London Assembly or were you unaware of the status of the fieldwork...

• Reference: 2021/3726
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In your long-delayed response to Question 2020/4099 you explicitly state “The RAIB were informed of the uncompleted audit in November 2016 shortly after the Sandilands tragedy and were sent a copy of the letter of engagement on 24 November 2016 and again on 1 February 2017. The RAIB did not request any further details regarding the audit.” However, analysis of email correspondence between TfL and RAIB dated 24 January 2018 discovered in your delayed response to Question 2021/1979 confirms that the RAIB unambiguously requested a copy of IA 16767 on that date. Please provide me with all internal correspondence (including...

• Reference: 2021/3725
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

The TfL website - https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets-and-oyster… - still claims that customers can add a Travelcard to their Oyster card. Has TfL recently changed its policy on adding Travelcards to Oyster cards or was my constituent given incorrect advice?

• Reference: 2021/3724
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

A constituent of mine who has previously added a Travelcard to his Oyster card recently tried to do so at Victoria Underground Station, Victoria Station and West Croydon Station and was told this was not possible. Where should my constituent go to add a Travelcard to his Oyster card?

• Reference: 2021/3723
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

With the recent tragic death of another cyclist at Holborn Gyratory, can you assure me that TfL has not been dragging its heels on improving cycling safety conditions associated with this known ‘death spot’? I ask, because I’ve been made aware of allegations that TfL has rejected all the proposals made so far because of its concerns about these changes’ impact on bus timeliness and reliability.

• Reference: 2021/3722
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In your rejection of Question 2021/2856, you offer your “Vision Zero” approach as obviating the need for an independent investigation of the safety performance of TfL’s contracted bus operation as recently requested by GMB Union. Based on the facts that— Your response to Question 2020/3828 reveals that Imperial College’s International Bus Benchmarking Group Data shows that London has consistently ranked in the lower third of its ‘world city peers’ for Pedestrian Deaths from Bus Crashes over the five year period 2015-2019; Analysis of TfL’s own bus fatality data since 2007 shows that – even though the DfT’s public data shows...

• Reference: 2021/3721
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 18 March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRsSBpHzX0&t=9s), I heard the Deputy Mayor for Transport recite a phrase that TfL “left no stone unturned” in its efforts to protect bus drivers from Covid-19 Risks. TfL’s then Director for Buses Claire Mann used the same phrase when TfL announced its evidence-free policy of “Middle-Door Boarding” on 17 April 2020 (cf. https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/april/tfl-introdu…). How can you reconcile TfL officers’ repeated use of “No Stone Unturned” with TfL’s failure (a) to collect bus depot Covid-19 infection rates until October 2020 (cf.FOI-2119-2021), (b) to keep and review copies of Bus Company Covid-19 Depot Risk Assessments (cf. Question 2021/0121) and...

• Reference: 2021/3720
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Do you accept that your refusal to respond to Question 2021/1984, which reasonably asked for copies of all communications (emails, letters, hand-written notes) associated with TfL’s “new reporting procedure” for First Group TOL’s reporting of safety incidents implemented after the end of November 2020, is in contravention of s45(3) of the GLA Act 1999?