• Reference: 2020/4113
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Despite the Mayor claiming this was a ‘priority’ in his answer to question 2020/2692, there remains no publication of TfL Taxi & PH financial positions for accounting periods 2018/19 & 2019/20. When will this issue be rectified?

• Reference: 2020/4112
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The Improving Safety in Private Hire Vehicle’s Consultation closed on 25th October 2018. Why hasn’t the mayor published the findings and which proposals does he intend to implement?

• Reference: 2020/4111
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Since (a) that email was written less than a year after the Sandilands crash and (b) TfL’ s evidenced powerlessness to amend its 30 year contract with First Group TOL, what gives you confidence that First Group is cooperating with TfL on Tram Safety now?

• Reference: 2020/4110
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In your response to Question 2020/0023 you posted a 27 July 2017 email from Robert Kemp (HSE & Technical Senior Audit Manager, Crossrail Head of Audit) to Mike Shirbon (Internal Audit) which, inter alia, states: “the audit [IA 17880) was marred throughout by a grudging lack of co-operation. Not downright refusal, but an obvious lack of engagement, and sometimes obfuscation.” Was your Deputy Mayor for Transport aware of the contents of this email when she testified in front of the London Assembly on 11 September 2019 with “but having looked at a lot of the documents myself, as you would...

• Reference: 2020/4109
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In documents released in Question 2019/17340, a 16 June 2017 email from TfL's Director of London Rail and Sponsored Services to TfL’s (then) MD for Surface Transport provides evidential proof of former TFL Board Member & Safety Panel Chair Michael Liebreich’s concern that TfL executives whose operations were being investigated by the RAIB and Police were provided with access to the IA 17780 audit team’s earliest fieldwork conclusions which, as you know, were watered down before they were published in secret on 15 September 2017. Do you accept that such access raises risks around the integrity and independence of the...

• Reference: 2020/4108
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

When TfL acquired Tramtrack Croydon Limited in 2008, the same Operating Agreement that governs the PFI Concessionaires’ 30 Year Contract with First Group TOL was retained by TfL, leaving TfL in a very weak position in terms of enforcing contract terms relating to safety, as we now know. Was any analysis of alternative options undertaken at the time which would have addressed this risk? Who was responsible for the decision not to demand alterations to that contract?

• Reference: 2020/4107
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In the “Trams Update Note”, dated 25 May 2017 and released in response to Question 2019/17340, it is stated that the TfL/TOL contract contains provision for termination in the event of “material and serious default” that would would require TfL to evidence: • TOL have failed in obligations to “have proper safety systems and implement them”; • “Systemic Failure, not just evidence of individual incidents although multiple incidents” • TOL’s failure to remedy defaults over time TfL’s General Counsel concludes that TfL would not be justified in exercising this clause. In your opinion, noting that you are also a lawyer...

• Reference: 2020/4106
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In fact a “Trams Update Note”, dated 25 May 2017 and released in response to Question 2019/17340, clearly shows that TfL did in fact consider terminating the TOL contract but decided it was not possible because (a) the Operating Agreement does not contain any rights to step in and take over operations in the event of a failure of service (or any other reason) (b) TfL would still be required to pay First Group fees less profit even if the Agreement were suspended owing to First Group’s breach; and (c) TfL’s rights to terminate for First Group’s default are limited...

• Reference: 2020/4105
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Question 2019/0150 asked you very specifically whether you “as Chair of TfL, considered the possibility of ending FirstGroup TOL's 30-year contract and re-tendering the operation”. In response you stated “TfL does not have any plans to change the contractual arrangement in place at this time,” which you must surely agree does not answer the question?

• Reference: 2020/4104
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Your response to Question 2020/3651 is incomplete. For the avoidance of doubt, was anyone at TfL aware of the March 2014 CIRAS Report about Fatigue from TOL Croydon Tram Drivers between the dates of 4 March 2014 (when CIRAS received the report) and 2 July 2014 (when IA 13744 was published)?