• Reference: 2021/2863
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

How many London SMEs have grown into large businesses since 2016?

• Reference: 2021/2862
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

What actions are you taking to support large enterprises in London and boost London’s appeal to such businesses?

• Reference: 2021/2861
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

How will you be using your Let’s Do London campaign to specifically boost domestic tourism in outer London and support the economic recovery of these boroughs?

• Reference: 2021/2860
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Would you please confirm that the 7,500 homes proposed in the Purley Way Masterplan will count towards the delivery of Croydon’s London Plan housing targets?

• Reference: 2021/2859
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

A constituent has asked me to table this question: Key findings in a study by Voterra Partners for the cross-party London Councils includes a core scenario that sees unemployment peaking at 9.4 per cent -- or 464,000 of economically active Londoners by December. A worse case scenario would see unemployment hitting 11.8 per cent -- or 580,000 -- by February of next year if the economic recovery is more sluggish than expected. Does the Mayor agree that if this scenario is in any way correct then October 25th – just over three months away – is not the right time...

• Reference: 2021/2858
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

A constituent has asked me to table this question: Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), often referred to as Autogas, provides converted engines with an 11 per cent reduction in Nitrous Oxide emissions and a near total reduction in Carbon Monoxide emissions against their pre-conversion levels. TfL now accepts LPG conversions for licensed taxi trade petrol engine taxis. With a conversion certificate issued by installers that show the “before” and “after” emissions figures, and an emissions check at a MOT test at three years old and every year after, regular proof is available for those conversions that can be more pollutant-free than...

• Reference: 2021/2857
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Data you released in response to Question 2020/3838 showed that, when benchmarked over 5 years (2015-2019) for pedestrian deaths involving buses, Imperial College’s Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) placed London in the bottom third of its ‘world city’ peers. Further analysis of TfL’s own Bus Fatality Data since 2007 shows that – even though the Department for Transport public data shows that the presence of buses and coaches on London’s Roads (adjusted for total mileage) has declined from 3% to 1% over the period – TfL buses were involved in an average of 10% of all London Traffic Fatals (2007-2020) and...

• Reference: 2021/2856
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

On 16 July 2021, GMB Union Southern Region launched a campaign asking you “to look urgently at the private contractors delivering bus services for TfL and remove the link between punctuality and profits.” Will you appoint an independent judge-led investigation to analyse the safety implications of how TfL contracts and manages its bus contractors?

• Reference: 2021/2855
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

I have been getting reports from bus drivers that they are being forced to report to disciplinary hearings convened by their employers as a result of being absent, with a doctor’s note, with Covid-19. A recent ASLEF report confirms identical actions are being taken against Tube drivers by TfL. Can you explain the logic behind punishing bus drivers for being ill with a disease that TfL’s own UCL Phase 2 Study showed that – even after adjusting for ethnicity, age and home address – they were twice as likely to contract as the general population?

• Reference: 2021/2854
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

TfL’s UCL Phase 2 Study on Bus Driver Deaths from Covid-19 reports that bus drivers – even after adjusting for ethnicity, age and home address – were twice as likely to die from the general population during the period from March to December 2020. As TfL Chair, do you accept that TfL by (a) withdrawing its inspection staff from depots where there were infection clusters at beginning of the pandemic, (b) being unaware that bus companies were continuing to use small vehicles for ferrying bus drivers to and from their route, (c) not receiving any Covid-19 risk assessments carried out...