• Reference: 2024/0682
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In your Background Statement in support of your Draft Consolidated Budget for 2024-25 you say, “The government has again frozen the National and International Capital Cities (NICC) grant which is intended to compensate MPS for the additional costs associated with policing the UK’s capital city”. What reasons, if any, has the Government given for freezing this grant?

• Reference: 2024/0681
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In your Background Statement in support of your Draft Consolidated Budget for 2024-25 you say, “The provisional local government finance settlement did not directly uprate the approximately £1.1 billion of former TfL capital investment grant within the GLA’s settlement baseline funding for the second year running. Had the government uprated this funding on the same basis as used for rest of the local government settlement, provided via retained business rates since April 2023, it is estimated that TfL’s capital funding would be more than £100 million higher in 2024-25”. What reasons, if any, has the Government given for not uprating...

• Reference: 2024/0680
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In your Background Statement in support of your Draft Consolidated Budget for 2024-25 you say, “The previous Mayor reduced the police precept in 2016-17 by £6.76 (Band D) rather than increasing it by the 1.99 per cent uplift assumed in the Home Office police settlement which has had the effect of reducing MOPAC’s revenues by approximately £34.5 million in 2024-25 compared to what they would otherwise have been. The cumulative loss over the last nine years in income, is over £300 million.” Can you provide a breakdown of this cumulative loss so we can see how each year’s loss contributes...

• Reference: 2024/0679
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

On 24 January 2024 the Government announced an extra £600 million funding for councils. How much, if any, of the £600 million do you expect to be provided to the GLA?

• Reference: 2024/0678
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In 2022/2023, only 56.3% of children in the Royal Borough of Greenwich had had both doses of the MMR vaccine by the age of 5 – the lowest number of any borough in the whole of London. What steps can you take to encourage more parents to get their children vaccinated in the Royal Borough of Greenwich?

• Reference: 2024/0677
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Has TfL given consideration to the allocation of grants to haulage firms to help them pay for the pending changes in the Direct Vision Standard requirements?

• Reference: 2024/0676
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What assessment has TfL made of the potential cost to haulage firms when the Direct Vision Standard requirements change in October 2024?

• Reference: 2024/0675
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

When did TfL decide to reverse its decision to remove the weight restriction at the Kidbrooke Interchange?

• Reference: 2024/0674
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

On what date did TfL initially decide to remove the weight restriction at the Kidbrooke Interchange?

• Reference: 2024/0673
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What steps are being taken to improve the reliability of the Elizabeth line service from Abbey Wood?