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  • Independent Statistical Analysis of Bus Driver Deaths from Covid-19 (1)

    • Reference: 2021/4498
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Will you commission an independent statistical analysis to establish the extent to which TfL bus drivers suffered excess Covid-19 mortality throughout the whole pandemic, compared with expected mortality based on age, ethnicity, home location and occupation?

  • Independent Statistical Analysis of Bus Driver Deaths from Covid-19 (2)

    • Reference: 2021/4499
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Will you commission an independent statistical analysis to establish which bus garages suffered clusters of Covid-19 deaths and correlate them with potential causes, such as the use of ferry vehicles?

  • Ensuring any future Covid Inquiry will cover Devolved Administrations and full Chain-of-Care

    • Reference: 2021/4501
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Will you support non-partisan calls for any future Covid-19 enquiry to cover devolved administrations and the full chain of care for those in vulnerable roles, from central government, through devolved administrations, councils, TfL and employers?

  • TfL’s Chief Safety Officer’s Lack of Basic Safety Qualifications

    • Reference: 2021/4502
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Further to your responses to Question 2019/21052 and 2021/2354 and your failure to respond to Question 2021/3889, when will you give me a firm date as to when TfL’s Chief Safety Officer will have gained the appropriate Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) and Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) accreditations that the public might presume to be a mandatory minimum pre-qualification for even being considered for that important post?

  • Safety Consequences of TfL’s Failure to Monitor Safety Performance of Bus Operators

    • Reference: 2021/4503
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    In your response to Question 2021/3887, you stated “There have not been any instances in the last five years where TfL has required an operator to put an [Safety] action plan in place”. In the wake of frequent public reports from London bus drivers about unsanitary and fatigue-inducing working conditions during your five-year term as TfL Chair, have you considered that TfL’s apparent complacency in monitoring the health and safety conditions of London bus drivers might explain why they continued to have excess mortality from Covid-19 long after the March 2020 lockdown?

  • TfL’s Recording of 10 June 2021 Meeting re Bus Driver Safety during the Pandemic

    • Reference: 2021/4504
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Despite your failure to provide the information I requested in Question 2021/3886, TfL has responded to FOI-1391-2122 on 27 October (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tfl_discussion_about_10_june_202) which, inter alia, clearly evidences that TfL recorded and internally published a full transcript of my 10 June 2021 Meeting with Chief Safety Officer, Head of Bus Business Development, Head of Health & Wellbeing and Senior Bus Safety Development Manager. Is it customary for TfL to record and publish transcripts of meetings with outside parties without (a) seeking prior permission from them (b) allowing those parties to review and confirm the accuracy of the meeting transcript?

  • TfL Having No Transcripts for Critical Safety Meetings

    • Reference: 2021/4505
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    TfL’s response to FOI-1391-2122 evidences that TfL both recorded and published a transcript of my 10 June meeting with TfL’s Chief Safety Officer and her colleagues. How can you reconcile TfL’s decision both to record and publish a transcript of that meeting when, in your responses to Questions 2021/0124, 2021/0541, and 2021/3728, you claim that TfL has no written records or minutes of, respectively— a) a Debate over Covid-19 Risk Reduction Interventions (https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2021/0124); b) Minutes of Regular Conference Calls about Covid-19 Risk Reduction Actions TfL held with Bus Operator and Union Officials, March 2020 to present (https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2021/0541); c) TfL Corporate...

  • Playing politics with TfL Bus Safety Data

    • Reference: 2021/4506
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Further to your response to Question 2021/3885 and your continued failure to respond to Questions 2021/3882, 2021/3883 and 2021/3884, in the interest of facilitating independent scrutiny of TfL Bus Safety Performance, will you assure that all Quarterly Bus Safety Data published by TfL will also be made available on TfL’s website in a downloadable generic spreadsheet format?

  • Obstructing the London Assembly’s Statutory Right to Scrutinise TfL’s Decision-Making under your terms as Chair (1)

    • Reference: 2021/4507
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    Following up on your response to Question 2021/3881, in your response to Question 2021/0121, you admitted that TfL “does not hold copies of these Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises” a fact confirmed by TfL’s Chief Safety Officer on 10 June and clearly reflected in TfL’s published transcript of that meeting (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tfl_discussion_about_10_june_202). Meanwhile, TfL’s response to FOI-0945-1718 dated 7 November 2017 clearly states: "Operators have provided 104 risk assessments to us from the start of 2016 as part of the route re-tendering process or following operational changes that result in new or emerging issues being added or updated. Our Framework...

  • Obstructing the London Assembly’s Statutory Right to Scrutinise TfL Decision-Making under your terms as Chair (2)

    • Reference: 2021/4508
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    In your response to Question 2021/3715 you mistakenly suggest that documentation contained in your response to 2020/1727 responds to my question, yet that information contains no mention about the scaling back of safety visits by TfL staff to bus depots or buses themselves. In fact, it doesn’t mention bus depots at all. Am I to assume that your misleading response is confirmation that there is no documentation to support the Deputy Mayor’s written statement that TfL’s decision to scale back safety visits to bus depots “was not taken lightly”? I am concerned that you appear to be obstructing the London...