• Reference: 2021/3719
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Further to your responses to Questions 2021/1968 and 2021/2360, can you update your response to FOI-2119-2021 and provide me with “Covid-19 bus drivers garage by garage” from January 2021 to August 2021?

• Reference: 2021/3718
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 29 July, Unite’s new General Secretary Sharon Graham told LBC’s Iain Dale that she asked both you and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham “to do something” regarding Unite’s dispute with Go Ahead Northwest, but you both refused. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzcNBrZemw) What were you asked by Sharon Graham “to do”? Please provide me with any written evidence of Sharon Graham’s request and any internal and external discussion of it and evidence of your response.

• Reference: 2021/3717
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Further to your response to Question 2021/1959, did TfL commission its first-ever “research” on the safety of Remote Sign-on to assist Unite the Union or Bus Contractor Metroline?

• Reference: 2021/3716
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Do you accept that your response to Question 2021/0124 that TfL has no written record of “debate over [Covid-19] interventions that were not part of PHE advice” (as requested in Question 2020/2694) can be interpreted as TfL actively obstructing any future independent enquiries on the deaths of London Bus Drivers from Covid-19?

• Reference: 2021/3715
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

A 23 July letter from the Deputy Mayor for Transport to a London bus driver clearly states “the scaling back of safety visits was not a decision that was taken lightly” but TfL’s communications appended to Question 2020/1727 show no evidence that any such decision was taken at all. Accordingly, please provide me with all written communication – emails, handwritten notes, decision memorandums – relating directly to TfL’s decision to scale back TfL Staff safety visits to bus depots.

• Reference: 2021/3714
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Why has this obvious Covid-19 risk factor for bus drivers not been remedied over a year after the pandemic and over three years after you committed to solve the problem? (cf. https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/1765 and https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/1764)

• Reference: 2021/3713
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 22 July, a bus driver named “Jason” called into LBC’s Speak to Sadiq to complain that London Bus Driver Cabs lacked air conditioning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi0_JvKUv6E&t=3s). The response you gave the Bus Driver was nearly identical to one that that you gave a bus driver named “Yazu” on the same show about the same issue on 27 July 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXdQmT3zoLg). How do you explain the persistence of complaints regarding this systemic problem with the lack of Air Conditioning on London Buses noting Unite the Union’s 20 November 2020 announcement 'New London bus air conditioning system a major victory in driver Covid...

• Reference: 2021/3712
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Can the Mayor provide the number of taxis currently licensed which, having reached their age limit (factoring phased age reduction), will be mandated off the licensed fleet between (a) 1st November 21 and 31st October 22, and (b) 1st November 22 and 31st October 23?

• Reference: 2021/3711
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In relation to your answer to question 2021/2848, will the Mayor confirm that no Taxi & Private Hire licence fees will be used to finance ‘non’ Taxi & Private Hire compliance operations?

• Reference: 2021/3710
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In relation to your answer to question 2021/2849, can the Mayor point to the separation of Taxi & Private Hire collision data in the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 fact sheets?