Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 28 September 2022.
Keith Prince
Conservative
Does TfL receive copies of individual bus company disciplinary procedures resulting from safety incidents that could cause death or serious Injury? If so, could you provide each of these procedures to me?
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London
As the employer, the bus operators are responsible for the actions of their drivers and for taking any disciplinary measures against their employees in line with their internal HR policies.
Information collected by the individual bus companies as part of their investigations into serious incidents is made available to Transport for London (TfL). On the occasions when the incident has prompted a disciplinary procedure, this would normally include confirmation of the high-level outcome.
While this information is made available to TfL on a confidential basis, it wouldn’t be made public by either the bus company or TfL, and I believe doing so would undermine the trust and safety culture that TfL is working hard to build across the bus operating companies.