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• Reference: 2021/3873
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Following his repeated pledges to improve London’s air quality, will the Mayor encourage London’s councils to utilise HVO green diesel in their transport fleets such as refuse lorries and council owned vehicles in place of fossil diesel?

• Reference: 2021/3874
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

What policies is the Mayor supporting to mandate the replacement of fossil diesel with drop-in HVO green diesel in small scale power generators in London’s residential and commercial buildings in the interests of air quality and reducing emissions?

• Reference: 2021/3875
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Will the Mayor assess to what extent prolonged exposure to poor air quality is impacting the health of construction workers, and whether health outcomes could be improved by replacing fossil diesel with HVO green diesel on sites such as those connected with HS2 in London?

• Reference: 2021/3876
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

What assessment has the Mayor made of the potential for HVO green diesel to improve air quality at London’s train stations and reduce the emission of particulates caused by idling diesel trains such as at King’s Cross, Marylebone and Paddington stations in the interests of passengers and rail workers?

• Reference: 2021/3877
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Will the Mayor take immediate steps to mandate that all HGVs which use routes in the immediate vicinity of school playgrounds or other youth recreational facilities are obliged to use drop-in HVO green diesel instead of fossil diesel following the recent coroners court ruling concerning Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in Lewisham?

• Reference: 2021/3878
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

What assessment has the Mayor made of the potential for drop-in HVO green diesel to replace fossil diesel on transport and non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) so as to improve air quality in and around HS2 construction sites such as those at Euston and Old Oak Common?

• Reference: 2021/3879
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

On 28 September, BBC Radio 4 broadcast “Occupational Hazard: The bus drivers who died from Covid”, which featured interviews with former TfL Board Member and Safety Panel Chair Michael Liebreich, bus driver Kevin Mustafa and public health expert John Ashton, each stating that TfL and its bus contractors are largely to blame for the high fatality rate of bus drivers from Covid-19 which the UCL Institute of Health Equity reports continued long after the March 2020 lockdown. Did you listen to the broadcast? What are your views on its main messages?

• Reference: 2021/3880
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

During the 28 September BBC Radio 4 broadcast “Occupational Hazard: The bus drivers who died from Covid”, after being told by File on 4 that bus drivers were taken to work in ferry cars with their colleagues, public health expert Professor John Ashton stated, “This is a recipe for spread of the virus in those groups…shocking and in my view completely negligent’. Given that you admitted in response to Question 2021/0544 that TfL didn’t hold its bus operators’ Covid-19 risk assessments for ferry driving, do you agree with Professor Ashton’s assessment?

• Reference: 2021/3881
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Given your: (a) admission in your response to Question 2021/0121 that TfL “does not hold copies of these Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises”; and (b) refusal in your response to Question 2021/0122 to provide “copies of all documentation (emails, directives, decisions and handwritten notes) pertaining to TfL’s discussions—with Bus Operators, Unite the Union and, if applicable, the ORR and Health & Safety Executive—of Covid-19 Risk Assessments for TfL Bus Depots/Garages”, is it the case that TfL does not have such documents because they don’t exist? Do you agree with me that, if that is indeed the case, TfL has...

• Reference: 2021/3882
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

In response to Question 2021/0559 you stated, “Unfortunately, the compilation of this [Quarterly Bus Safety] data has historically been a resource-intensive task, but TfL is examining ways in which the process can be simplified, while retaining the appropriate level of detail. These changes, which TfL will complete in the coming months, will address this matter.” A recent review of TfL’s Bus Safety Data site shows that all the downloadable quarterly bus safety data spreadsheets since 2014 have been removed and replaced with a “Bus Safety Dashboard” which does not allow the user, inter alia, to aggregate and analyse datasets outside...