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

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I saw in your answer to Assembly Member Hall on floating bus stops you referenced again the DfT guidance, and I know we spoke about this previously. However, there is a type of floating bus stop being used in London called a backless bus stop. There is currently one in Kew Bridge and there is one due to be built in Lea Bridge. They are not in the guidance, and they just do not work. You said there is a review, but we raised this on 18 May [2023] and we...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. Just briefly, Mr Mayor, you mentioned the phrase “step-free desert”, which is one I have used before in relation to Chiswick, a key area of London served by the Piccadilly line and the District line, but none of the stations there have step-free access. Just a quick plea, if you could ask your team to go and look at what they can do at those stations. I know that they are difficult stations, there is no easy solution to step-free access there, but an entire area of London is without step-free access, therefore could...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): C ould you start the clock on this? Mr Mayor, you referred to the important objective of ensuring that as many stations as possible have step-free access. There is, however, once people using wheelchairs know where the lifts are, shall we say where step-free access is, then they can plan their journey. It does not help with planning their journey when so many lifts in outer London seem to go out of order on a repetitive basis. I wondered if you might look into that for the future, see what progress has been made. Last year...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Susan Hall AM: T hank you. Me again. What action has been taken against the ULEZ enforcer when he apparently knocked over Heather Watts - I am sure you recall that - in Biggin Hill?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Susan Hall AM: Good morning. You said at the very beginning you are going to – or in fact that you were – the most transparent Mayor ever. Now, if we look at your diary, you made a commitment to publish your diary as part of being open and transparent, all that sort of stuff. But the last update was 29 April 2022.

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Neil Garratt AM: M orning. Just thinking about your capacity as Mayor and also as Chair of TfL, you spoke to media in November 2022 during the discussions about ULEZ and you said, “What we want is a scheme that can treat each driver differently in relation to time you are driving and distance that you are driving.” That is obviously you describing what you want is a pay-per-mile road user charging scheme. But then by September here you told my colleague Assembly Member Best, and I quote, “As long as I am Mayor”, meaning you, “we are not going...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Siân Berry AM: Mr Mayor, you mentioned one budget announcement that you have made in that introduction there. I am very concerned to find that you have not sent us any more announcements yet, despite publishing your new draft consolidated budget last night [17 January 2024]. However, I do note in it that you have received an additional £512 million that you can distribute. Looking at the table for Transport for London income on page 78 of that document, it is clear there that your passenger income has dropped compared with the consultation draft budget by £128 million. That is...

• Reference: 2024/0446
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): The Mayor will now provide an oral update of up to five minutes in length on matters occurring since the publication of his report. Mr Mayor.

• Reference: 2024/0445
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 08 February 2024

How many firefighters failed an enhanced DBS check between January 2023 and January 2024?