• Reference: 2017/4122
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Heavy encryption is used in the operation and execution of the Uber app. Nobody seems to be exactly sure how it works, including its regulator, Transport for London. An ombudsman is needed to ensure that Transport for London exercises due diligence and only licenses Private Hire companies whose practices and operations are transparent and fully understood by its regulator.

• Reference: 2017/4121
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Black Cab drivers and all the organisations and businesses associated with the trade, numbering 35,000 people, have been requesting a complete separation of Black Cabs from Private Hire, two separate departments at TFL, for some time now. Who does the trade go and see to discuss this? Who is the mediator? Who holds TFL to account?

• Reference: 2017/4120
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

When did TPH last carry out an Impact Assessment on the effect of the PH Trade's standards on the Taxi Trade?

• Reference: 2017/4119
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Is the Mayor aware that PH Drivers are now 80% of the Industry?

• Reference: 2017/4118
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

How does the Mayor manage the balance between Taxi and the PH Industry?

• Reference: 2017/4117
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Is the Mayor aware that TfL TPH did not carry out any Consultations, whatsoever, on the impact on the Taxi Trade of allowing PHVs to use a Taxi dispatching system where the Driver accepts the booking?

• Reference: 2017/4116
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Is the Mayor aware that an FOI has shown that TfL do not have an 'e-hailing' policy and did not carry out any work on the modus operandi used by smartphone app technology by Taxi or PH Drivers?

• Reference: 2017/4115
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Can the Mayor show when TfL carried out a Consultation on the change allowing PHVs to virtually ply for hire via an App on a smartphone?

• Reference: 2017/4114
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

How does the Mayor expect London's Cabbies to be able to afford the new Electric Taxi that is priced at £63-65,000 if he fails to protect the Taxi Market from the Private Hire one in a two-tier strategy?

• Reference: 2017/4113
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 October 2017

Why did the Mayor state that he believes that a new Taxi/PH Plan was necessary to help the London Taxi Trade and why haven't there been an Impact Assessments Consultations held during any of the previous Private Hire Regulations Reviews despite a submission from the London Cab Drivers Club asking that question and subsequent emails to TPH asking the same question?