• Reference: 2019/17391
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy document, Quarter 1 Feed in Tariffs: Sub-national statistics for 2019, shows that fewer than one per cent of London households have installed solar photovoltaics (PV). Do you support the call in the report in July from Common Wealth, Roadmap to a Green New Deal: Infrastructure, for a solar panel on every usable roof, as part of a nationwide upgrade of housing stock?

• Reference: 2019/17387
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

To ask the Mayor if he supports the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association call for a limit on the number of minicabs operating in the capital?

• Reference: 2019/17386
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

What measures has the Mayor taken to address increases in sexual assaults and road traffic accidents in the private hire trade that were not put in place by the previous Mayor?

• Reference: 2019/17385
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

What percentage of (i) private hire drivers (ii) taxi drivers have been tested for customer service?

• Reference: 2019/17384
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

What percentage of (i) private hire drivers (ii) taxi drivers have been tested for disability awareness?

• Reference: 2019/17383
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Given that TfL do not regulate App companies, are they putting the safety of the public at risk by not insisting that all companies operating in the industry hold an Operator’s licence?

• Reference: 2019/17382
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Does TfL abdicate all responsibility for testing and interviewing private hire driver licensees to Operators?

• Reference: 2019/17381
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Do you agree that TfL should interview all applicants for taxi and/or private hire licences and test their ability to drive before allowing them to proceed to drive the public?

• Reference: 2019/17380
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

On 24 June 2018, Andrew Gilligan wrote in The Sunday Times that Uber had investigated 1,100 drivers for serious offences: how many of those drivers had been assessed by TfL as being fit and proper to hold a private hire driver’s licence? What measures have TfL introduced in the year since Uber investigated its own drivers for serious offences? 1 1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uber-investigates-1-100-drivers-for-…

• Reference: 2019/17379
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

What amount of education does TfL provide and how many hours of training do Private Hire Drivers undergo before they become licensed?