• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Anne Clarke AM: I just want to come in here. As you know, many disabled people who use Dial-a-Ride also use private hire vehicles (PHVs) and I have been contacted by many of my constituents who are PHV drivers. They have been very concerned about the safety, equality and regulatory understanding (SERU) test and their ability to stay on the road, earning an income. Can you update us on your actions regarding the SERU test?

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Peter Fortune AM: Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to come in off the back of Assembly Moema’s question. Undoubtedly, housebuilding and supply is a key issue right across the capital. There are a couple of things I want to understand with the CHAP. The top limit is about £200,000 per property that a council can bid for, which is presumably up to about 50 per cent of the value. The councils that sign up to the scheme are limited in buying properties within their own borough. Is that correct?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to pick up with some comments made right at the beginning of this set of questions about road speeds. I support the comments you made highlighting the difference in road danger at lower speeds and the Labour Group supports 20 mph on appropriate roads. I understand Assembly Member Hall feels differently and in a recent interview she stated that she believes they make accidents more likely and quoted, “I pay far more attention” said Assembly Member Hall “when I am driving at 30 mph than when I am driving at 20...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I do not like to call people liars, so I am going to say I think we have had some misrepresentation this morning. I am just wondering if we could clear up a couple of misrepresentations. You have not actually paid any money into trade union bank accounts, have you? You have made money available for TfL to pay its staff.

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Keith Prince AM: Anyway, on the question of your failures, you said when you came to office you were going to be the Mayor of zero strikes. We all hoped and prayed that was going to be true. Regrettably, I believe to date we have seen 139 strikes, which is a lot more than the 35 strikes of the person we will not mention where you said it was a disgrace. We only have a few months left. Do you think we will have zero strikes between now and the end of your term?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Emma Best AM: Thank you. The substantive issue I wanted to talk to you about today was a failure in relation to what was a wonderful event again - the London [New Year’s Eve] fireworks - but the failure in stewarding that event. I wanted to read briefly the testimony of Jennifer who was a teacher who travelled 150 miles from Telford on a three-hour journey and this is what she said when she arrived of her experience, “We joined the pink zone line at 8.20 with tickets. We lined up for hours and barely moved. We remained in the...