• Reference: 2024/3451
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Further to press reports and official TfL correspondence to which I was copied, I understand a meeting between TfL officials and relatives/next of kin of pedestrians killed by TfL buses took place on Friday, 10 May 2024. From this correspondence, I know that the TfL officials present announced they would be meeting with TfL directors on Monday, 13 May 2024, to discuss the 10 May meeting and the concerns the participants raised. Please will you provide me with any minutes, email correspondence and any documentation produced by TfL by TfL for or as a result of that 13 May 2024...

• Reference: 2024/3450
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

On 3 September, the BBC's Transport Correspondent reported that you had 'apologised' to a bus crash victim's family. What exactly did you 'apologise' for? How was this apology conveyed? Do you agree with me that, since the first quarter of 2024 saw the highest number of pedestrian deaths from bus collisions during a single quarter in a decade, if your apology was not conveyed in a formal letter or in a face-to-face meeting with the bus crash victim's family, that it might not be worth the paper it's not written on?

• Reference: 2024/3449
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

In Mayoral Question 2024/2877, I specifically asked you to provide me with 'TfL's specific policy that instructs bus operators to ensure their service controllers give bus driver welfare priority over their contracted headway targets.’ Can I assume that your inability to release this basic safety information to me is a confirmation that (a) this policy does not exist or (b) bus service controllers give priority to contracted headway targets over bus driver welfare?

• Reference: 2024/3448
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

My Mayoral Question 2024/2876 specifically asked you to provide me with "the criteria, code of practice or agreed timings applied to bus schedules for ensuring that "adequate stand time" is provided to bus drivers at termini on the 25 percent of London bus routes where TfL fails to provide bus drivers access to a toilet." Your response referred me to your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2873 which did not answer my question. Does this information even exist? How do you reconcile your inability to release this basic safety information to me with your 'ambitious' Vision Zero goals?

• Reference: 2024/3447
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

How do you reconcile TfL's support of Neighbourly Lab's "Bus Staff Appreciation Campaign" and the University of Sussex's research on "saying hello to a bus driver" with the horrendous conditions suffered by bus drivers revealed in the 21 September My London investigation headlined "Whistleblower London bus drivers ‘exhausted’ and ‘use faulty vehicles’ in ‘dangerous’ conditions"?

• Reference: 2024/3446
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

How do you reconcile your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2873 that 'TfL continues to invest in its bus driver facility assets' with a) the 29 June 2022 statement by TfL’s Head of Bus Business Development Tom Cunnington at the London Assembly Transport Committee that TfL has no plans and no budget to add toilets to 175 bus routes lacking toilets at one end – a point you further confirmed in your response to Mayoral Question 2023/2120 - and b) the information from your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2892 that "there is not a specific toilet working group" in the Tripartite...

• Reference: 2024/3445
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

My Mayoral Question 2024/2873 specifically asked for you to provide the 'certain criteria that must be met for TfL to cover bus driver toilet breaks' that I have seen in internal communication from one of TfL's largest bus contractors. Please will you provide me with a copy of this 'certain criteria that must be met for TfL to cover bus driver toilet breaks'?

• Reference: 2024/3444
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

How do you reconcile your responses to Mayoral Questions 2024/2872 and 2024/2873 with the chilling testimony of London bus drivers found in the 21 September 2024 My London Investigation headlined "Whistleblower London bus drivers ‘exhausted’ and ‘use faulty vehicles’ in ‘dangerous’ conditions"? For example: “if they’ve given you 10 minutes stand time, by the time you get there, you’ve got two minutes, and that’ll be the time you have to go to the toilet."

• Reference: 2024/3443
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

In your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2872, you stated "The layover period built into a schedule provides adequate time for drivers to use facilities." Please provide me with any specific guidance TfL has issued to its bus contractors that clearly defines what constitutes "adequate time for bus drivers to use facilities" on – as per your response to Mayoral Question 2022/5376 – the at least 175 bus routes with no bus drivers’ toilet at one end. Does this guidance even exist? If not, please explain why not.

• Reference: 2024/3442
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

In your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2872, you stated "Bus Operators work to a contractually set of mileage coding guidelines, with operators expected to code mileage losses which are within the operator's control as deductible." Please share any specific guidance TfL has issued to its bus contractors that clearly defines the circumstances under which the timing allowed for a bus driver toilet break is determined to be "within the operator's control" and that which is not. Does this guidance even exist? If not, please explain why.