• Reference: 2021/1972
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

TfL’s 2016 Internal Audit Manual contains nothing about an “Integrated Assurance Audit”. Can you confirm what such an audit is and when this designation was created?

• Reference: 2021/1971
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

If your narrative about how IA 16767 simply “disappeared” from Audit & Assurance’s purview is accurate, why does the 2016 Internal Audit Manual you attached to question 2021/0537 contain nothing about what happens when an audit is placed “on hold” nor when an audit becomes an “Integrated Assurance Audit”?

• Reference: 2021/1970
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

If IA 16767 had “further work to be carried out” please provide me with documentary evidence and a timeline of that work.

• Reference: 2021/1969
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

In your response to 2021/0537 you state—inter alia—that regarding IA 16767 (a) “the audit was never completed” (b) ”in order for the report to be meaningful, further work would have had to have been carried out in relation to the incident itself” (c) “was placed “on hold” in November 2016 and (d) “IA 16 767 had been allocated to the Integrated Assurance team, when it was moved from ‘on hold’ to ‘cancelled’, this was not included in the reporting to the Audit and Assurance Committee as currently happens for internal audits.” With reference to the detailed explanation you provided in...

• Reference: 2021/1968
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

In response to a Freedom of Information Request FOI-2119-2021, TfL stated that Bus Driver Covid-19 Data by Bus Depot “has only been reported to TfL since October 2020.” Do you agree with me that this startling admission reflects TfL executives’ remarkable complacency about Covid-19 risks at depots? Please provide me with an update to FOI-2119-0221 showing all such data reported to TfL since 21 January 2021.

• Reference: 2021/1967
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Further to your response to question 2021/0527 please provide me with a breakdown of bus driver deaths from Covid-19 by bus operator (a) since 9 March 2021 to the present and (b) since March 2020 to the present.

• Reference: 2021/1966
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

In two separate public appearances - you on LBC on 22 February and Transport Commissioner Andy Byford at 8 March Transport Committee - both you and Commissioner Byford have claimed TfL has been judged ‘world leading’ in its Covid-19 risk reduction efforts for bus drivers. What evidence can you provide to support those public statements?

• Reference: 2021/1965
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

At 8 March 2021’s Transport Committee, in response to questions from me, the Transport Commissioner gave TfL’s decision to implement Middle Door Boarding on 17 April 2020 as an example of an action that was taken to protect bus drivers from Covid-19 risk. Yet, the 16 April 2020 “Briefing Note” you provided to me (but did not publish) in response to question 2020/1728 clearly states in paragraph 5 that “this [Middle Door Boarding] trial did not assess the specific risk to drivers in the cab environment, or whether this change reduced the risk to drivers in the cab”. Since TfL’s...

• Reference: 2021/1964
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

On 18 March 2021, the Deputy Mayor and I participated on a radio interview on the Vanessa Feltz show. When the Deputy Mayor was asked if she took any responsibility for London Bus Driver deaths from Covid-19, she bluntly said “No.” Given that we know (a) that your response to Mayor’s Question 2020/3659 clearly shows that TfL withdrew its staff from bus depots and buses and had no way to inspect onsite conditions; (b) that your response to question 2021/0121 confirms that TfL doesn’t have copies of the risk assessments of its bus contractors’ Covid-19 risk reduction actions; and (c)...

• Reference: 2021/1963
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Please provide me with all internal and external communication (including copies of minutes, emails, decision memorandums and handwritten notes) TfL has conducted with regard to Remote Sign-On since it was first implemented.