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• Reference: 2017/5255
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Since Uber was licenced in 2012, have the number of people using the tube/underground increased? Please could you provide me with the annual footfall using the tube since 2012?

• Reference: 2017/5256
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Why did TFL licence Uber in 2012 and not know or understand the mechanisms of inviting and accepting bookings? Why did they fail again to understand the booking process when they carried out their investigation into their business model in 2014? Did TFL Management just take assurances from Uber rather than carrying out their own due diligence?

• Reference: 2017/5257
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Are Uber currently paying a licence fee to TFL (LTPH) whilst their appeal is going through? If so, how much are they being charged?

• Reference: 2017/5258
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

I was concerned to learn on 22 November 2017 that Uber had concealed a massive global breach of the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers in October 2016, failing to notify the individuals and regulators. Uber clearly have many questions to answer with regard to the failure to hold customers' and drivers' personal information securely, as well as a failure to report the breach to the relevant regulatory authorities and notify those affected. What assessment has TfL made of the extent to which customers and Uber drivers in London have been affected by the data breach, including exactly...

• Reference: 2017/5259
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

I understand that Uber's new Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi had a meeting in London on 3 October 2017 with TfL Commissioner Mike Brown. Given that Uber had been sitting on the news for more than a year that the personal information of 57 million Uber customers and drivers had been hacked, was this massive data breach disclosed to Commissioner Brown in that meeting? If so, did Mr Brown inform you?

• Reference: 2017/5260
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

I note that Andrew Byrne, Head of Public Policy for Uber appeared before the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee in the House of Commons on 10 October 2017. Being unable to provide detailed answers to the chairwoman's questions on the length of hours worked by Uber drivers, he undertook to respond to the Committee in writing. On 26 November 2017, The Times revealed that Uber's subsequent written response disclosed that 3,000 Uber drivers were working more than 60 hours a week. It would be illegal for anyone to drive a lorry, a bus or most vans on London's...

• Reference: 2017/5261
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Do you believe that if a compulsory mandate was introduced, that CCTV was fitted to all PH vehicles in London, it would improve public safety, prevent crime, encourage good behaviour and assist the Police for convictions?

• Reference: 2017/5262
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

What progress to date has been made of the 13,000 k PH drivers who did not have adequate DBS clearance? How many have been found to have criminal convictions?

• Reference: 2017/5263
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Did TfL carry out a risk assessment for taxi drivers in the event that they have to provide assistance to passengers in the rear of the taxi in the event that a credit/debit card reader malfunctions?

• Reference: 2017/5264
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Do you understand that taxi drivers may be risking their livelihoods and careers by getting in the rear of a taxi when a card reader malfunctions, or a passenger is unable to operate it, if an accusation or complaint is made against them?