• Reference: 2020/3664
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

In your response to Question 2020/2534, you state that agency drivers were denied access to the scheme. Before announcing the scheme, did TfL conduct any review of Competition Law and how its Retention Bonus criteria might discriminate against new entrant Bus Operators that might have a higher percentage of agency workers or fewer permanent workers who had not met the scheme’s minimum employment term requirements?

• Reference: 2020/3663
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

In your response to Question 2020/2526 you state "Because of these safeguards and the self-isolated nature of the driving compartment, bus drivers are not required to wear face coverings when inside the driver's cab.” Please provide me with a copy of any proper analysis which justifies this policy.

• Reference: 2020/3662
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

In your response to Question 2020/2533, how can you reconcile your refusal to identify the specific Depots where Bus Drivers who died from Covid-19 were employed "due to data protection and out of respect for the privacy of the families of the deceased” with TfL’s regularly publishing pre-inquest victim-blaming narratives in publications found on its Bus Safety Data Page?

• Reference: 2020/3661
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

In your response to Question 2020/2533, you identify 3 “partner organisations” where 4 employees died from Covid-19. What services were Interserve, Cleshar, ABM providing TfL, where were these services carried out and for which Business Unit were they working?

• Reference: 2020/3660
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Has TfL considered the possibility that bus drivers stand a higher risk of catching Covid-19 from other bus drivers and workers (through lack of social distancing and mask-wearing at depots) and on buses (through shared cabs) than from passengers? Does TfL intend to investigate this possibility?

• Reference: 2020/3659
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

I have become aware of a recent announcement made by Arriva and Metroline about the requirement for social distancing and mask wearing at depots. Since social distancing has been national policy since March and mask wearing required on public transport since 15 June, how do you explain these TfL Bus Operators’ apparently dilatory application of national requirements? How closely and by what means is TfL monitoring its Bus Contractors' enforcement of mask wearing and social distancing at Bus Depots?

• Reference: 2020/3658
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

I have become aware of a letter that London Bus Drivers have sent to ComfortDelGro Management in London and Singapore about a reported Covid-19 Outbreak at Metroline’s Cricklewood Depot (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/29/drlo-s29.html). Has there been an outbreak? What specific onsite investigations and actions is TfL taking to ensure that Metroline's Bus Workers are protected?

• Reference: 2020/3657
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

How many TfL staff attended the UK Bus Summit on 6 February 2020? Please provide me the exact number and their titles.

• Reference: 2020/3656
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

A review of the documentation you sent in response to Question 2020/1727 reveals that, apparently, there was no discussion within TfL of the Covid-19 outbreak at the UK Bus Summit held in London 6 February 2020. Given that TfL’s MD for Surface Transport was a speaker at the event and there must have been many TfL executives and staff in attendance, should the public be concerned that TfL executives didn’t discuss the fact that Covid-19 was already present in the UK Bus Industry community at that early date?

• Reference: 2020/3655
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

An analysis of the fatalities shown on TfL’s Bus Safety Data Release contains victim-blaming statements like “A male pedestrian stepped on to the crossing at Edmonton Green Bus Station without looking to their right as a bus was approaching” to describe the case of a pedestrian killed by a Go Ahead 191 Bus in February 2020 in Edmonton and "A bus collided with a male pedestrian. The pedestrian walked out from between parked cars and appeared to be looking in the opposite direction” to describe the case of an elderly man killed by a Stagecoach 167 Bus in Redbridge in...