• Reference: 2019/21054
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Please provide me with the Terms of Reference/Contract Specifications, Tender Notifications and Professional Qualifications of "Panthea Leadership" and "Leonardo Advisory Wondrous People Ltd" for the "Mentoring" and "Coaching Services" being provided under these £500,000 - £1,000,000 contracts.

• Reference: 2019/21053
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

A review of 2019-20 of TfL contracts awarded for more than £5000K (http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-contracts-greater-than-5k.pdf) show two contracts of £500,000 - £1,000,000 awarded to two companies — "Leonardo Advisory Wondrous People" and "Panthea Leadership"—for, respectively, "Coaching" and "Mentoring Services" for TfL Executives. Both contracts are described as: "TfL (“the Authority”) is a complex organisation, operating in a highly sensitive, political environment. There is a continual need to improve the services the Authority provides and to do more with less. This requires a reliance on strong leadership to manage the internal and external challenges and ensure the business strategy is delivered and organisational...

• Reference: 2019/21052
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

On 11 September 2019, Deputy Mayor Heidi Alexander announced the appointment of a new TfL Chief HSE Officer reporting directly to the Commissioner. What recruitment process was followed before appointing an internal candidate as the new head of HSE? Can the Mayor confirm that the new Chief HSE Officer has any training or experience in HSE?

• Reference: 2019/21051
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

On 11 September 2019, Deputy Mayor Heidi Alexander announced that TfL’s HSE Director since 2013 was no longer in the post. Given the HSE Director played a critical role before, during and after the Croydon Tram Crash and that ORR and the Coroner’s inquests associated with that incident are still under way, what reason can you provide for the departure of TfL’s long-serving HSE Director at this critical time?

• Reference: 2019/21050
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In your answer to MQ 2018/2612 you clearly state “The Managing Director of Surface Transport is responsible for Transport for London's engagement with the RAIB, ORR, BTP, SNC-Lavalin and the Coroner, discharged through the General Manager for London Trams, the Director of Health Safety & Environment, the Chief Customer Officer and General Counsel.” Yet TfL’s 24 July 2018 Board Report ascribes that responsibility to the HSE team, a narrative reiterated by your Deputy Mayor at the London Assembly on 11 September 2019. Therefore, in order to state unequivocally that responsibility for the error lay with HSE, you must have evidence...

• Reference: 2019/21049
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

A 2018 TRL Report about TfL’s Bus Safety Standard - http://content.tfl.gov.uk/analysis-of-bus-collisions-and-identification… - stated that “Incident investigations are carried out by the operating companies involved who retain resultant information.” In order to ensure truly independent investigations and that lessons are learned, do you have any plans to instruct TfL to assume responsibility both for bus crash investigations and for ownership of the resultant information? Do you recognise that the current set-up has possible conflicts-of-interest?

• Reference: 2019/21048
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In 2018, TfL Bus Collisions constituted 16% of all pedestrian fatalities in London. Do you know of any other city in the world where a public bus service is responsible for such a high proportion of total pedestrian road deaths?

• Reference: 2019/21047
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In response to MQ 2019/19748 you promised that TfL would “undertake a further check” to confirm whether or not its statement recorded in the 22 November 2017 Safety, Sustainability and Human Resources Panel (SSHR) Minutes was based on fact. What were the results of this exercise?

• Reference: 2019/21046
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Further to your response to MQ 2016/3562, who is the TfL executive you hold responsible for achieving the goals of the ‘world leading’ Bus Safety Programme TfL announced on 1 February 2016?

• Reference: 2019/21045
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

During her testimony to the London Assembly on 15 May First Group TOL Managing Director Jackie Townsend mentioned “We have actually identified a couple of drivers who have medical conditions. We have had two with sleep apnoea, which they did not know they had.” As a result of the findings of the Croydon Tram Crash Investigations and the Loughborough University Fatigue Study, has TfL directed its contractors to assess the medical fitness of drivers for conditions like sleep apnoea which substantially increase the risk of fatigued driving?