• Reference: 2021/0547
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Is the driving compartment used by ferry drivers sealed from Bus Drivers?

• Reference: 2021/0546
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What is the average number of total jobs carried out by a ferry driver on a daily basis?

• Reference: 2021/0545
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Please publish the number of ferry drivers working on TfL’s Bus Operation by Bus Garage by month starting from March 2020.

• Reference: 2021/0544
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

From bus drivers, I’ve learned that bus garages directly employ ferry drivers who are responsible for transporting starting bus drivers in a car or a minibus from the bus garage to a change-over point and who also sometime return with drivers who are finishing. Phase 1 of the UCL Initial Assessment of London Bus Driver Mortality from Covid-19 published in August 2020 stipulated that “TfL’s occupational risk assessment tool should be used by London bus companies to identify those most vulnerable—with the oversight of TfL—to reduce the risk of employee’s exposure to and acquisition of Covid-19’. Was the ferry driving...

• Reference: 2021/0543
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your response to Question 2020/2529, you state that Unite the Union’s decisions to suspend 7 BAME Health and Safety Representatives working for Arriva during the height of the pandemic were “internal matters for Unite the Union to deal with as they consider appropriate, and not for TfL or me to comment on”. Yet in your responses to Questions 2020/3659, 2020/2541, 2020/2119, and 2020/1623 you have repeatedly underscored the important role of Unite the Union Health and Safety representatives in ensuring Covid-19 Risk Reduction actions were carried out. If Unite the Union’s decisions to remove important safety resources were not...

• Reference: 2021/0542
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Following up your response to Question 2020/3659, do you accept that TfL’s decision to ‘scale back on physical site visits at the height of the lockdown’ might contribute to why ONS Data shows that the death rate of London Bus Drivers is twice that of UK Bus Drivers?

• Reference: 2021/0541
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Further to your responses to Questions 2020/1623 and 2020/2119, from March 2020 can you provide me with all the minutes of the “regular conference calls” TfL held with Bus Operators and Unite the Union representatives concerning the implementation and monitoring of Covid-19 Risk Reduction Actions by them?

• Reference: 2021/0540
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Following up your responses to Questions 2020/3659, 2020/2541, 2020/2119, and 2020/1623, did TfL request that its Bus Operators and Unite the Union provide the names and CVs of any of the Bus Operator and Unite the Union representatives TfL executives contacted ‘in regular telephone calls’ to ensure Covid-19 Risk Reduction Actions were being carried out competently in Depots and on Buses? If such information was ever requested and provided, could you provide me with an anonymised version of it?

• Reference: 2021/0539
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your responses to Questions 2020/3659, 2020/2541, 2020/2119 and 2020/1623 you have repeatedly underscored the important role of Unite the Union representatives ‘stood down from their normal duties’ by Bus Operators to ensure that Covid-19 Risk Reduction actions were being carried out and monitored in Bus Depots and on Buses. Given that ONS Data shows that the death rate from Covid-19 among TfL Bus Drivers is over twice that of UK Bus Drivers, what evidence does TfL have that (a) these Unite representatives were trained and competent to carry out the safety critical tasks they were ‘stood down’ for and/or...

• Reference: 2021/0538
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Evidence you released in Question 2020/0023 clearly shows that TfL Internal Audit watered down a safety audit that showed serious Fatigue Management problems at the Croydon Tram 7 months after the Sandilands Disaster in order to ‘placate’ TfL’s Tram Operator First Group TOL. Yet, in your response to 2020/4633 you state that further investigation of this decision by TfL’s Internal Audit executives “would not be an appropriate use of public resources”? Will you undertake to explain your response directly to the families of the Sandilands Crash victims?