• Reference: 2019/6175
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What information did TfL commission in order to provide proper analysis of the Taxi Delicensing Scheme and the introduction of the ZEC taxi?

• Reference: 2019/6174
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What are your projections for the uptake of the new ZEC by the end of 2020?

• Reference: 2019/6173
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What are your projections for the age of taxi drivers by the end of 2020 and 2022?

• Reference: 2019/6172
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What are your projections of new entrants to the taxi trade who have taken the Knowledge of London up to 2022, and how many drivers do you expect to leave the trade up to 2022?

• Reference: 2019/6171
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Before the new Taxi Delicensing scheme kicks in, the Taxi Fleet has dropped by 10% in less than 2 years; how many vehicles does the Mayor believe will be on the road by the end of 2020?

• Reference: 2019/6170
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

In the Economic Integrated Impact Assessment carried out in 2014, a new ZEC Taxi was assumed to cost £40,000 and the Jacobs Report said there is a risk, even with mitigation, of an exit of drivers and vehicles from the market. With a new ZEC Taxi actually costing a whopping £65,000 how many drivers does the Mayor think will exit the market now?

• Reference: 2019/6169
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Did TfL carry out surveys or an integrated impact assessment on the effect of the Taxi Delicensing scheme or are these just estimates, guesstimates, predictions, presumptions and assumptions?

• Reference: 2019/6168
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What was the staff turnover rate in TfL and in tube drivers over the last 12 months?

• Reference: 2019/6167
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Given that TfL just licenced over 1,200 Euro 6 diesel vehicles for Addison Lee, but no longer allows the registration of new Euro 6 diesel taxis, why are you inconsistently and disproportionately disadvantaging taxi drivers in the name of cleaning up London’s air, while continuing to register thousands of the same vehicles which are now banned for taxi drivers?

• Reference: 2019/6166
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Do you accept that TfL-TPH licenced operators, vehicles and drivers using apps which calculate a fare by time and distance rather than calculating the fare in advance are not ‘pre-booked’ but are actually ‘ply-for-hire’, and should be regulated as taxis rather than as private hire vehicles?