• Reference: 2024/2740
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

How many vacancies are open for Dial-a-Ride call centre staff?

• Reference: 2024/2739
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

How many Dial-a-Ride drivers resigned from their role in: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (to date)?

• Reference: 2024/2738
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

How many vacancies are open for Dial-a-Ride drivers?

• Reference: 2024/2737
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

How much does it cost to train a Dial-a-Ride driver?

• Reference: 2024/2736
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Why doesn’t TfL aim to schedule 100% of requested Dial-a-Ride trips?

• Reference: 2024/2735
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

What assessment has been made of TfL’s target of scheduling 90% of requested Dial-a-Ride trips?

• Reference: 2024/2734
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

What steps, if any, can TfL take to recover unpaid embassy congestion charge fines? If the fines are irrecoverable, can you explain why this is?

• Reference: 2024/2733
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Has the USA, or any other embassy, received ULEZ PCNs? If so, have they been paid, or do they consider them a tax not a charge?

• Reference: 2024/2732
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Apart from the USA, what other embassies are not paying the congestion charge because they feel it’s a tax and not a charge?

• Reference: 2024/2731
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

TfL has said “We and the UK Government are clear that the Congestion Charge is a charge for a service and not a tax. This means that diplomats are not exempt from paying it”. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in London said: "In accordance with international law as reflected in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, our position is that the congestion charge is a tax from which diplomatic missions are exempt”. Can you explain what the difference between a charge and a tax is in this regard and why the UK and US Governments have different opinions...