Key information
Request reference number: MGLA120723-1765
Date of response:
Summary of request
Your request
- What is the expected death toll amongst vulnerable persons requiring carer visits which will no longer be financially viable post ULEZ?
- How many carers are expected to be unable to continue with care work post ULEZ
- How many cared for vulnerable persons will no longer have carers post ULEZ?
- What contingency planning is in place to address the cliff edge that ULEZ represents in terms of care provision? For example how many additional Ambulances do you have on stand by? What emergency A&E cover has been arranged? How are GP, District Nurse, Paramedic practitioner home visits being coordinated to to cover the catastrophic loss of care provision?
- How are the unemployed created by ULEZ going to be supported? What provision has been made to avoid mass homelessness when thousands of people are no longer able to work?
Our response
An Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) of the London-wide ULEZ proposals was conducted by independent consultants Jacobs Ltd and assessed potential health, environment, equality, and economic impacts of the scheme consultation proposals on different groups, including care workers and informal carers.
The Integrated Impact Assessment is published on the Transport for London (TfL) consultation website (Appendix C under the heading 'Report to Mayor on ULEZ expansion and future road user charging').
Only drivers of vehicles that do not meet the ULEZ standards need to pay the £12.50 daily
charge. 90 per cent of cars seen driving in outer London on average day meet the ULEZ
standards meaning their drivers will not need to pay. Additionally around half of London
households do not own a car.
For those with non-compliant cars, the Mayor and TfL and are supporting Londoners with a
£110m scrappage scheme, extending existing grace periods, introducing new grace periods for disabled people who may find it more difficult to adapt to the scheme and improving the bus network in outer London to provide more alternatives to vehicle use.
Many lower paid workers, including care workers and informal carers, will be eligible for benefits including child benefit, universal credit, child tax credit, working tax credit, and carer’s allowance. If they are claiming these benefits they will be eligible for the scrappage scheme.
More information about the scrappage scheme is available on the TfL website.
If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting
reference MGLA120723-1765.