• Reference: 2021/0537
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Following up on your partial response to Question 2021/4627 (“Discontinued Internal Audits from 1 January 2014 to present”) and your failure to respond to Question 2020/4626 (“Protocols for Undertaking or Discontinuing Internal Audits”), Agenda Item 48/10/16 in Internal Audit Quarter 1 Report 2016/17 presented to TfL’s Audit & Assurance Committee on 11 October 2016 states “it was agreed future reports include the reasons for audits cancelled and postponed”. Why doesn’t TfL’s cancellation of IA 16767 appear in any subsequent “reasons for audits cancelled and postponed” reports provided by Internal Audit to TfL’s Audit & Assurance Committee? How can you explain...

• Reference: 2021/0536
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Further to your response to Question 2020/4629: (a) on what exact date was the Deputy Mayor informed about the existence of IA 16767 and (b), since all the evidence files contained within your response to 2019/17340 were created on 14 February 2020, why did you not respond to Question 2019/17340 until 5 October 2020, over a year after the question was asked?

• Reference: 2021/0535
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

After TfL had been compelled to publish IA 13744 (“Competence and Fitness of Tram Operations Limited (TOL) Tram Operators”) and IA 17780 (“Management of Fatigue in Tram Operations Limited”), on 26 June 2018 in response to Question 2018/1315 you stated: “There are no other audit reports on this subject.” Yet the existence of IA 16767 (and IA 15738 and IA 16760) appears to show your response was misleading. Your response to Question 2020/4628 suggests you were ignorant of the existence of IA 16767 at the time you responded to Question 2018/1315. Were you similarly ignorant of the existence of IA...

• Reference: 2021/0534
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Do you believe the fact that 3 Safety Audits concerning the Croydon Tram — IA 15738, IA 16760 and IA 16767 —published by TfL before 9 November 2016 each showed the conclusion “Adequately Controlled” suggests that TfL’s Internal Audit Process overseen by TfL’s General Counsel was seriously compromised in the run-up to the Sandilands Crash? Seeing that there have been no changes in that division’s leadership under your watch as TfL Chair, have you ordered any actions since November 2016 that might restore the public’s faith in the accountability and competence of TfL’s Internal Audit processes?

• Reference: 2021/0533
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Was IA 16760 provided to the Croydon Tram Crash Investigators (RAIB, SNC Lavalin, the Police), the ORR and the Coroner? If so, on what dates?

• Reference: 2021/0532
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Please provide me a copy of IA 16760 “Surface Transport Health and Safety Competence Management” published on 14 October 2016.

• Reference: 2021/0531
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Was Internal Audit 15738 provided to the Croydon Tram Crash Investigators (RAIB, SNC Lavalin, the Police), the ORR and the Coroner? If so, on what dates?

• Reference: 2021/0530
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Please provide me with a copy of IA 15 738 “Tram Infrastructure Safety Management” published on 18 April 2016.

• Reference: 2021/0529
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your response to 2021/0130, you appear to suggest that the Transport Commissioner hasn’t received any formal written confirmation from Bus Operators that they’ve agreed to his ‘urge’ that they give special leave for vulnerable Bus Drivers. Kindly provide me with any written confirmation that TfL has received from each Bus Operator confirming that the Commissioner’s ‘urge’ has been accepted and is being implemented by them. Accordingly, please also provide details as to how TfL are monitoring the conduct of that process.

• Reference: 2021/0528
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your partial responses to Questions 2021/0127 and 2020/2533, you state that “TfL is unable to provide a line –by-line account of each death in service due to data protection and out of respect for the privacy of the families of the deceased” but that is not the information I requested. I have requested that you provide bus driver deaths from Covid-19 by “place of work” which includes both the Bus Operator and the Bus Operator’s Depot associated with the victims. Given that the Bus Safety Data TfL publishes every quarter shows the month, location, Bus Route Number, the garage...