• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr Mayor and Commissioner. Congratulations on your appointment. I want to focus my questions today on Tube noise and the impact this is having on residents, day and night, in many parts of London, from south Wimbledon to Kennington to King’s Cross. Rail grinding is one of the very few tools that TfL is currently using to try to reduce noise, but internationally there are many innovations in this field. One metro in China has introduced special sleepers that have a wider base then the top, which is shown to...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Just very briefly, we in the Green Group are deeply concerned by the new evidence that has emerged that the Mayor has just raised involving the conduct of a member of the Police and Crime Committee, which I chair. All of us in the Assembly have a responsibility to uphold the highest standards in public office. We are the voice of London and Londoners expect us to abide by the law. I personally would like to request a meeting with the leader of the Conservative Group to discuss this matter and I would just...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Obviously, our condolences to Assembly Member Bailey on his loss that has prevented him from coming here this morning, but the issues that relate to the video footage and also the invitation that was sent out, talking about jingling and mingling, when mingling was specifically something we were asked not to do, overrides that. There are some really important principles relating to the Nolan Principles of Public Life and showing a better standard of upholding the law amongst people who have been elected. On that basis, I hear what you say about the peerage...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Are you prepared to break down the entire 3,171 by postcode please and each of the boxes for and against?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, I welcome the further progress on step-free stations in London that you outlined. However, a recent question to the Department for Transport confirms that level boarding will not be available on Elizabeth Line services at the new Old Oak Common Station, meaning that not all Elizabeth Line stations will provide step-free access. Are you aware of this, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Len Duvall AM: Your recent announcement around trying to step in to save the Commonwealth Games was an important contribution. In terms of the challenges for us if we had to do it, are we really sure that we are able to do that? You will have done your work, no doubt, when you made that announcement and the offer. Of course, it is about those events that make those wider contributions on a whole number of levels, if you are successful in holding them and working on those. Can you just tell us a little bit more about your...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. God, what an insight into GLA decision-making, not just the politics but if only we could take decisions as quickly as that and be responsive. We are rightly picking up on a number of important issues with this important policy change, which will have a major difference on family household incomes. Can we just talk about the future? I know budgets are budgets and we have to go through certain procedures, but I get a feeling that people want something a bit longer-term and they will be looking to you for that. Our...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Mr Mayor, I am doing this [asking a question] from the Chair because we have no Deputy Chair here [to take the Chair], so bear with me. Occasionally I may have to tell myself to shut up. I raised the case concerning ULEZ with you of Mr Kieran Flynn, who had a vehicle on finance and who complained that the additional costs of the ULEZ would make his business unviable. You suggested he should consider a grant for retrofit. Unfortunately, his vehicle is not eligible to be retrofitted. Mr Mayor, he has nowhere else to go...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. The Evening Standard - this was a Rachel Burford [Chief Political Correspondent] article - reported in May [2023] that the Leader of Harrow Council and Harrow councillors, and senior local Tory officials, were running a Facebook group that celebrated ULEZ camera vandalism. One post linking to a news story about the destruction was captioned, “Well done”. Posts and comments on the group also spouted Islamophobic tropes about you and had unacceptable posts referring to a child sex offender on their page. What are your thoughts on the Harrow Conservatives running a Facebook page that...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Something that definitely has got a negative effect on Londoners’ ability to access the transport network is the vast number of strikes that Londoners have suffered under your Mayoralty. You described 35 strikes under Boris [Johnson, former Mayor of London] as a disgrace. Yet, when you became Mayor, you have had 135 strikes under you. Given you promised zero days of strike and given that you have opposed every Government measure to reduce strikes on public transport, what are your plans to stop the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)...