• Reference: 2025/1049
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Why did it take more than 16 hours to remove a protester who had climbed Big Ben’s Elizabeth Tower on 8 March 2025, and what lessons have been learnt from the incident to stop protesters from climbing the Tower in future?

• Reference: 2025/1048
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What consideration has there been to providing some seats on buses with seatbelts?

• Reference: 2025/1047
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

For the period 2016-2025, please will you provide me with a spreadsheet showing details about Pollution Incidents at TfL Bus Garages? The spreadsheet should include the following data: a) the date of the occurrence, b) the location (Name of Depot and Borough), c) the name of Bus Operator involved, d) the severity of the incident, e) the name of the agency or entity that investigated the incident, f) any actions that were taken to mitigate the incident, and g) the long term effect of the incident.

• Reference: 2025/1046
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In a 21 February 2025 MyLondon press report, TfL is quoted as stating "Transport for London has confirmed two separate investigations are under way into a 'completely unacceptable' diesel spill that it's feared is causing devastation in a South London river.” What two separate investigations did TfL confirm? Is TfL leading or taking any active role in in any investigation about the spill?

• Reference: 2025/1045
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In your response to Mayor’s question 2021/4057, you stated "Transport for London (TfL) does not require the bus operating companies to share copies of their risk assessments covering activities within their garage environments. This includes any that were created or updated as a result of Covid-19.” After recent reports of 4000 litres of diesel fuel leaking from a TfL bus garage in Croydon into the River Wandle on 18 February 2025, do you regret TfL’s policy to refuse to review and monitor bus operators' risk assessments covering activities within their garage environments? Will you now instruct TfL to order TfL...

• Reference: 2025/1044
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Following the brutal kidnapping and murder of the Bibas family, during the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, major cities across the world showed solidarity with the family by lighting national monuments in orange, as the family were eventually laid to rest in February 2025. What consideration did you give to lighting London monuments in orange (including City Hall) or holding alternative tributes to the Bibas family?

• Reference: 2025/1043
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Given your Vision Zero "ambitions", how can you explain that TfL's latest published scorecard gives items like "Total Engagement" (7.5%) and "Senior Leader Representation" (7.5%) each a weighting that is 11% higher than any KPI category for safety performance?

• Reference: 2025/1042
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

How do you reconcile the fact that TfL's latest published scorecard weights "Customer Journey Time" (9%) more than 25% percent higher than, respectively, "Roads, Killed or Seriously Injured" (6.67%), "Customer, Killed or Seriously Injured" (6.67%), "Colleague, Killed or Seriously Injured" (6.67%) with your and TfL's constant refrain that "Safety is TfL's 'first priority'"?

• Reference: 2025/1041
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Your response to Mayor’s question 2025/0607 did not answer the question. Please will you now provide the data on the bus route, bus operator and bus garage involved in the 3 August 2024 ‘Fatal Bus Collision’ that resulted in the death of an 8-year-old girl while she cycled with her father and younger brother on the pavement in Bexleyheath?

• Reference: 2025/1040
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In your response to Mayor’s question 2025/0605, you stated "2024 figures for bus-involved fatalities will be published in September in the annual ‘Casualties in Greater London’ factsheet." In both the ‘Road Fatalities in London since 2019’ spreadsheet and the latest (Q2 2024) ‘Bus Safety Data Spreadsheet’, there are two deaths that are considered Non-STATS19 (1. The 11 February 2024 death of an adult male pedestrian after a collision with a Route 158 Arrive bus in Enfield, an incident which is recorded in both published data sets, and 2. The 20 June 2024 death of a Passenger of Unknown Age and...