• Reference: 2016/4082
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Please set out what obligations are placed on applicants to become a taxi or private hire driver to disclose any past criminal offences committed overseas?

• Reference: 2016/4081
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Please set out the steps, if any, that are undertaken by TfL to investigate any criminal offences committed overseas by applicants to become a taxi or private hire driver and operate in London?

• Reference: 2016/4080
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

You appear not to have issued any press statement following the recent successful test cases brought to the Central London Employment Tribunal relating to Uber drivers. Do you welcome this ruling?

• Reference: 2016/4079
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Your recently published taxi and private hire action plan sets out that consultation with private hire drivers includes quarterly meetings with representatives of the private hire trade including the LPHCA, Private Hire Board and Chauffeur & Executive Committee, as well as one to-one meetings with the larger operators and the GMB Union. Considering how fragmented the private hire industry is do you believe more steps should be taken to listen to issues raised by private hire drivers, especially those who have concerns about their terms and conditions?

• Reference: 2016/4078
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Further to your reply to Question 2016/1352 please state whether you will use Section 77 of the Greater London Authority Act to promote a Bill in Parliament to allow TfL to cap the number of private hire vehicles that are licensed to operate in London. If you are not willing to consider this proposal please state your reasons for refusing to do so.

• Reference: 2016/4077
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Further to your reply to Question 2016/1352 what specific steps have you taken to lobby for primary legislation to be introduced to allow TfL to cap the number of private hire vehicles operating in London?

• Reference: 2016/4076
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

In June in answer to Question 2016/1864 you stated that TfL and the MPS are currently working together to establish how to present data in a consistent format for sexual offences relating to taxi and private hire drivers and that the data will be publicly available later in the Summer. Please state the specific reasons why this data has still not been published and also the actual date by which this data will start to be regularly published.

• Reference: 2016/4075
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

What process will exist to allow applicants seeking to become taxi and private hire drivers to appeal against failing the English language requirement covering speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

• Reference: 2016/4074
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

While I agree that there are safety and other passenger benefits from an English language requirement for taxi and private hire drivers that covers oral communication and the ability to read English, what benefits, if any, are there on any requirements relating to written English standards? Will you undertake to review this guidance if no evidence can be provided to justify the testing of written English skills?

• Reference: 2016/4073
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

A constituent has asked me to raise the question of whether you are satisfied with TfL's level of co-operation with Über considering reports that the company only paid £22,134 in UK corporation tax last year despite making an £866,000 profit?