• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. May I say first of all, Sir Mark, thank you for your robust answers to Assembly Member Russell. There is no doubt that politicians do mean well, but it is absolutely vital that we look at things in the round. I really applaud your robust answers. To be fair, Sir Steve House had started to row back, and I am pleased to see that you are saying what you are because figures on both sides of an argument need to be looked at. Thank you for that; I was thrilled to hear that. Mr Mayor...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Commissioner, my question is to you. Trust and confidence in the MPS in London is a key issue currently. How are you working to restore the trust of all Londoners? I appreciate that you have partially answered this question in response to the question from the Chair, but can you be more specific and give some examples, especially with regard to regaining the trust of Black Londoners, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Londoners, women Londoners, etcetera ?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is for the Commissioner. In October 2022, when you first appeared in front of the Police and Crime Committee, we spoke about diversion as opposed to criminalisation for the possession of cannabis. One of the things you said you did in your time in Surrey back in 2011 was “to be one of the driving forces nationally in building a different approach with out-of-court disposals.” You described how that eventually became community resolutions. It is clear that you see the benefits of diversion for people who are stopped with cannabis...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I was tremendously excited today that everyone has been so interested in the thing that I have been interested in for six months and have been banging on about and everyone has been ignoring me. What I wanted to ask Mr Mayor, because I am very interested in what the Conservative Group are discussing about the Londoners being very interested in feeling like today, is a vote on the ULEZ expansion rather than the MTS. I totally understand that, of course, many Londoners will be genuinely interested in the result and the debate. I...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM (Chair): Thank you very much, Chair. I have a tiny bit of time left, and I wanted to reflect back on the kind of communications we are getting. I have been getting a lot of emails. By and large, the people who are against this scheme are being terribly reasonable and just pointing out to me that they have a degree of car dependency, and they are worried about the cost to them of changing their vehicles. We are getting some quite constructive conversations about what they would need in order to do that. Something you said...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Chairman. Mr Mayor, this revision to the MTS is being regarded by the public as a vote on ULEZ - whether that is correct or not, that is the perception of Londoners. Given that, and given the fact that we have all been elected to represent Londoners in our various places, we should be listening to what Londoners are saying. Therefore, I do not understand why you will not let us know what the Londoners think in your consultation before you even brought this here. It is no good you sitting there saying that this...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, Mr Mayor and Mr Deputy Mayor. It gives me absolutely no joy that one of the boroughs we have talked a lot about today has the second highest rate of premature deaths attributable to poor air quality. That is simply unacceptable. It is the borough where I live, and one of the boroughs I represent. When people think of Barnet as being a green and leafy borough, there are on average 204 people who have lost their lives every year owing to poor air quality. Until the change of administration in May...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much, Chair. In your policies, you have brought about a reduction of PM 2.5 - so those living within the central ULEZ zone. Have similar benefits been experienced as a result of the expanded ULEZ?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Building on the conversation that we are just finishing off with Assembly Member Marina Ahmad about the scrappage scheme. I thought it would be worth, given that we have had a back and forth and were looking for lessons learned, drilling down a little bit more into the review of the London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment. In front of me it says: “TfL is reviewing the effectiveness of the previous ULEZ scrappage scheme that enabled over 15,000 polluting vehicles to be removed from London’s roads to inform the development of any future scheme.” It...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair, and my question is to you, Mr Mayor. As you know, ULEZ-compliant vehicles were available from 2005, 17 years ago. If you do decide to expand the ULEZ, what impact will it have on small businesses that have vehicles that are at least 18/19 years old, and what are the mitigations that you will be putting in place?