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2 Million Trees Target (4)

  • Reference: 2024/1046
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
If Londoners had not seen your 2016 manifesto, do you think they would be under the impression that you intended to plant 2 million trees based on a Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 stating ‘I’ll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor’?

2 Million Trees Target (3)

  • Reference: 2024/1045
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Given your suggestion that we should look to your manifesto for your promises on tree planting, and not your Twitter account, do you accept the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’ could be misleading and should be retracted?

2 Million Trees Target (2)

  • Reference: 2024/1044
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Putting your 2016 manifesto aside, was the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’ incorrect? Would you like to take the opportunity to retract the Tweet?

2 Million Trees Target (1)

  • Reference: 2024/1043
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Thank you for your response to question 2024/0819. The question was not concerned with your manifesto, however, but with the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’, with a link to a Guardian article which carried the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’. Was this Tweet incorrect?

Misleading ULEZ Adverts (2)

  • Reference: 2024/1042
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Do you accept the ULEZ adverts the ASA recently ruled were misleading should have been clear that they used estimates and modelling to make their claims?

Behaviour of TfL (2)

  • Reference: 2024/1041
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Do you agree with Miles Brignall’s analysis in The Guardian on 28 February 2024 that mismanagement of TfL’s autopay scheme means that drivers need to ‘keep a close eye’ on their bank statements?

Behaviour of TfL (1)

  • Reference: 2024/1040
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Do you agree with Miles Brignall’s analysis in The Guardian on 28 February 2024 that TfL is ‘fast getting a reputation for behaving like the worst kind of parking firm’, suggesting you look ‘at the way in which ULEZ is being managed’?

Building our Future

  • Reference: 2024/1039
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Do you support the British Property Federation manifesto, 'Building our Future', including its recommendations to build more homes, promote senior living, and ensure world class facilities to promote high growth sectors?

Small Business Accounts

  • Reference: 2024/1038
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
Have you made any representations following the worrying figure of 140,000 small business accounts being shut by banks, given the potential impact on Londoners?

Affordable Housing for Students in London

  • Reference: 2024/1037
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
London Higher recommend that, “There should be more affordable student accommodation and travel by including accommodation in the strategic planning for London, alongside plans to build more homes. Increasing supply of both students’ accommodation and housing will help to rebalance the housing market in London and ensure London remains an attractive place for students to study, work and live”. Will you listen to London Higher’s recommendation and enable affordable student accommodation in London?
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