• Reference: 2021/1982
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

From press reports circulating in early December 2020 (https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/115150/claire-mann-south-weste…), I understand that TfL’s Director of Bus Operations already accepted a job as Managing Director of Southwestern Railway. Given TfL’s record of failure in improving Bus Safety Performance and protecting Bus Drivers from Covid-19 under your leadership as TfL Chair, what justification can you provide for keeping that Director in her role so long after she had accepted outside employment from a FirstGroup-owned transport operator?

• Reference: 2021/1981
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Your response to Question 2021/0121 confirms ‘Transport for London (TfL) does not hold copies of Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises’. As TfL Chair, how do you justify TfL’s ignorance of (a) a Key recommendation of Sir Michael Marmot’s Phase 1 Report on Covid-19 Impact on London Bus Drivers and (b) TfL’s commitment to “work collaboratively with all operators to share learnings and assure consistent application of the risk assessment tools” found in paragraph 4.7 in its Response to the Phase 1 Study?

• Reference: 2021/1980
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Your response to question 2021/0559 suggests to me that you, as TfL Chair, are being complacent about TfL’s long tradition of obstructing public scrutiny of the safety performance of its contracted bus operation. TfL is now approaching being one year behind in publishing Q3 2020’s data and 6 months behind for Q4 2020’s data. When will 2020’s complete data set be published and which TfL Executive has the paid responsibility for ensuring this work is performed in a timely and accurate manner?

• Reference: 2021/1979
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

In my 19 November 2020 Question 2020/4101 request, I asked for the following information: “Starting from 1 September 2016, please provide me with all documentation (initiating letters, terms of reference, emails, handwritten notes, audit drafts) associated with or referring to IA 16767, including all correspondence relating to its cancellation.” In your 29 November 2020 response you stated “I have asked Transport for London to respond to this request and an updated answer will be uploaded once available.” Nearly 7 months have passed since your response. How can you explain this long delay? When will the data I requested be made...

• Reference: 2021/1978
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Your response to Question 2020/4628 manifestly fails to answer the question I posed. For the avoidance of doubt, allow me to provide the correct ‘premise’ of my query: By your own admission, for at least 18 months after Sandilands, TfL kept the existence of IA 16767—a safety audit that contains the most timely TfL assessment of First Group’s tram safety system at the time of the crash — from you — and now we know (a) from your opaque response to question 2021/0537— from TfL’s Audit and Assurance Committee and (b) from former TfL Board Member and Safety, Sustainability and...

• Reference: 2021/1977
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Your response to question 2020/4630 refers me to a “12 October 2016 Letter of Engagement” for IA 16767. Kindly provide me with (a) a copy of this document and (b) any internal and external communication (emails, letters, handwritten notes) associated with its drafting, dispatch and agreement about its contents with First Group.

• Reference: 2021/1976
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Following up on your delayed response to Question 2020/4635, when can I expect to receive copies of all communication and documentation (including the terms of reference for IA 16767) that TfL sent to RAIB on 24 November 2016 and again on 1 February 2017”?

• Reference: 2021/1975
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

In your responses to questions 2020/2533 and 2021/0127 you state: “TfL is unable to report on the number of Taxi or Private Hire Drivers who have died in service as they do not have access to this information.” How can you explain this level of ignorance about the safety of a mode of service where TfL regulates drivers’ working conditions and terms of service? Please provide me with evidence that TfL has attempted to gather this data and any estimates TfL has made of Taxi and PHV Drivers who’ve died from Covid-19 since March 2020.

• Reference: 2021/1974
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Following up your delayed partial responses to questions 2020/2533 and 2021/0127, please provide me with an updated list of all Transport Workers who have died from Covid-19 in 2020, showing figures by month starting from March 2020 to the present time. This list should include: 1) sex and, if known, ethnicity, 2) date of reported death 3) name of TfL Contractor or TfL Division for whom each victim worked 4) place of work (e.g. Train Station, Bus Depot, Taxi, PHV) and 5) TfL Executive responsible for the transport mode in which each victim worked (e.g. MD Buses, LUL, Taxi and...

• Reference: 2021/1973
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Do you agree with me that all these anomalies emanating from TfL’s explanation of what happened to IA 16767 might lead one to conclude TfL wanted to ensure that no one knew TfL and First Group TOL had finalised a safety audit of First Group Croydon Tram just days before the UK suffered the worst Tram safety incident in over 90 years?