• Reference: 2024/3728
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

In your responses to questions 2024/3427 and 2024/2888, you mentioned that TfL has "robust onboarding processes for assessing conflict of interest for all roles". Can you provide any evidence of these processes and how they are applied in the bus senior executive hiring process?

• Reference: 2024/3727
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

I asked you question 2024/0185 in January. It is now November. When do you plan to respond?

• Reference: 2024/3726
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

With the reported death of a female pedestrian in her 70s, after being hit on 24 October by a Route 66 Bus operated by Arriva under contract to TfL, the number of people killed in preventable bus safety incidents this year now totals eleven. 2024's bus fatality total represents a year-on-year increase of (a) 83% based on the 2023 bus fatality total TfL recently published in its 2023 Casualties in London Report or (b) 63% based on the figures TfL has published in its ‘Quarterly Bus Safety Data’ on its website. Which year-on-year percentage increase do you recognise and why?

• Reference: 2024/3725
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

While TfL's ‘Quarterly Bus Safety Incident Data’ for 2023 clearly shows 8 fatal bus crash incidents in 2023, TfL's "Casualties in Greater London during 2023 - Road safety factsheet" only shows 6. Please identify the bus crash fatality incidents and victims TfL did not include in this most recent 2023 data publication.

• Reference: 2024/3724
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Please provide all written correspondence associated with all the ‘Bus Safety Performance’ text and data (i.e. Figures 2 and 3) found on pages 5-7 of TfL's "Casualties in Greater London during 2023 Road safety factsheet" published on 26 September 2024?

• Reference: 2024/3723
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

The errors on TfL's Bus Safety Performance provide ample evidence that TfL does not have sufficient control over the veracity of the data it publishes about bus deaths and serious injuries involving London's contracted public bus fleet. Will you instruct TfL to conduct an independent audit of its bus safety data, as I asked you to do in March 2022 in question 2022/1222?

• Reference: 2024/3722
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: “In 2023 there were no reportable bus occupant (passengers and drivers) fatalities for the first time since 2014.” However, a review of the 2023 Quarterly Bus Safety data found on the TfL website clearly shows that a male passenger was killed on 12 March 2023 in a bus collision in Harrow involving a Route 79 Bus, operated by RATP under contract to TfL. Will you instruct TfL to issue a formal correction to this erroneous statement on Page 6 of this important document?

• Reference: 2024/3721
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: "12 per cent fewer people were killed or seriously injured on a London bus in 2023 than in 2022 (from 269 to 258)." However, a review of the 2023 ‘Quarterly Bus Safety’ data found on the TfL Website clearly shows 554 people onboard London Buses were "Sent to Hospital" in 2023 – an increase of 1.5% over 2022's 546 people in the same ‘Onboard Safety Incident’ category. If you add the 1 passenger killed in a bus collision in March 2023 to the 554 "Sent to Hospital”, you get 555 KSIs vs. 548 for 2022...

• Reference: 2024/3720
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: “In 2023 there were 137 people killed or seriously injured in collision with a London bus on the roads (including the six fatalities mentioned above).” However, a review of the 2023 Data of the Quarterly Bus Safety data found on the TfL website clearly shows 162 people were "Sent to Hospital" from bus collisions in 2023 – an increase of 2.5% over 2022's 158 people in the same ‘Collision Incident’ category. If you add the 8 people killed from bus collisions in 2023 to the 162 "Sent to Hospital”, you get 170 KSIs vs. 165...

• Reference: 2024/3719
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 5 of the "Casualties in Greater London during 2023 - Road safety factsheet" under "2023 Position: Six people killed” it states, “The number of people killed on or in collision with a London bus in 2023 was six, the lowest number on record outside of the pandemic-affected years of 2020 and 2021." On page 6 of same TfL report under "Collisions involving London buses” it states: “In 2023 there were six people killed in collisions with London buses, all pedestrians, this is four fewer people killed (-39 per cent) than 2010-14 baseline. Our 2030 target is zero. "...