• Reference: 2024/2879
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Please can you share latest data for the number of apprenticeships the GLA offers and at what levels? Please provide a breakdown by job type and contract length.

• Reference: 2024/2878
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Does TfL still plan to hold a consultation on removing the SL7 between Croydon and Sutton and replacing it with an extended SL5? If so, when will the consultation open?

• Reference: 2024/2877
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

In your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2213, you stated, "Service Controllers should consider driver welfare in all their decision making". Is it TfL policy to instruct bus operators to ensure their service controllers give bus driver welfare priority over their contracted headway targets? If so, can you provide me with a copy of this policy? If not, why doesn't this policy exist?

• Reference: 2024/2876
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

In your response to Mayoral Question 2024/2214, you stated, "Transport for London works with the bus operators to review bus schedules to ensure that adequate stand time is incorporated in all bus schedules". Please will you 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 with access to a toilet?

• Reference: 2024/2875
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Further to Mayoral Question 2022/2990, does TfL's newly appointed Director of Buses have at least the same IOSH and NEBOSH Qualifications as the outgoing Director of Buses? If not, why not?

• Reference: 2024/2874
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Since your responses to (a) Mayoral Question 2022/0787 confirmed that one quarter of London’s bus routes don't provide a toilet for bus drivers at one terminus and (b) Mayoral Question 2023/2120 confirmed that TfL had no intention of installing any toilets on these bus routes, does TfL's recent announcement of the second phase of its "Bus Staff Appreciation Campaign" imply that you'll be providing them with toilets facilities on these routes?

• Reference: 2024/2873
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

I have seen internal communication from one of TfL's largest bus contractors which stated, "certain criteria must be met for TfL to cover these [toilet] breaks." Please will you provide me with a copy of this criteria?

• Reference: 2024/2872
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

I have seen recent internal communication from one of TfL's largest bus contractors which stated, "All mileage lost due to toilet breaks is deductible, which adversely affects the business and overall performance". Is this true? If so, do you agree with me that financially penalising bus operators for allowing their bus drivers time to use a toilet during working hours is neither safe nor humane?

• Reference: 2024/2871
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

What action is TfL taking to prevent or reduce the number of disruptions on the Elizabeth line?

• Reference: 2024/2870
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Are you satisfied with the Elizabeth line’s performance over the last 12 months?