• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Zack Polanski AM: Good afternoon to you both. I would like to direct my questions to the Mayor. I would like to ask you about renewable energy. In 2019, we received a written answer that said that TfL were only using 200 megawatt hours per year of renewable energy. Now, that is 0.01% which is attributable to renewable sources. That figure is embarrassingly low. When you were challenged about this by my colleagues you did concede and you said, “You are right; we have to do much better[...] We do not want to wait until the mid-2020s”. Well, it is...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Sem Moema AM: My question is to Mayor Khan. How are your plans for building homes on TfL land progressing?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to start with Commissioner Byford, if I might. There are quite a lot of us around this room, including me and the Mayor, who talk a lot about a green recovery. Do you think that TfL is doing enough to increase and protect diversity across the whole of its estate and its network?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, in January [2022] I wrote to you and asked what alternatives to diesel fuels are being used in the construction traffic and the construction efforts at the Silvertown Tunnel. You said diesel alternatives were prohibitive in price. Could you share with me why they are prohibitive, the actual costs that were looked into?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Anne Clarke AM: We are not often confused, but thank you, Chair. I am just listening to the Conservatives opposite, and I am astonished to hear them calling you rude. What comes across to me is a clear commitment to clean air and I want to thank you for that, for your commitment to it, because the council ward where I live and where I serve is the poorest in Barnet, which is in outer London. It leads to shortened lifespans. We have the poorest air quality and we lost a disproportionate number of our residents to COVID. Thank you...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Emma Best AM: In 2017, TfL modelling suggested that 135,000 vehicles per day would use the expanded ULEZ and that was the justification for spending £130 million on the expansion. Fast-forward to today - or to November [2021] when we had the last stock of that - and you have 50,000 chargeable vehicles travelling within the expanded zone. That is a little over a third of where the estimated figure came in the forecast. Now, looking ahead to the London-wide expansion, TfL estimates that 87% of vehicles travelling within that zone will be compliant, leaving 13% that are not. There...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning, Commissioner and Mr Mayor. Commissioner, I will start with you. Following on the theme of buses, but hopefully on a more positive note, the TfL Bus Action Plan aims to increase the speed of journeys. What I wanted to hear from you is how do you ensure that this does not adversely affect some groups who need to be given proper time to board buses safely?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, gentlemen. Mr Mayor, do you agree with Lisa Nandy [MP] when she says she supports the rail strikes?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Elly Baker AM: Hello again, Mr Mayor. We can all agree that reducing private car use in London would benefit London overall for congestion, air quality and climate reasons. What I am really interested in is how we can sustainably reduce car use and target journeys that can easily be switched to other modes of transport, recognising that some Londoners - whether it will be because of mobility, because of specific work reasons or for caring responsibilities - will find that much more difficult. Your ULEZ consultation says, “[...] it is important that the owners of those remaining vehicles that...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Can I first ask Assembly Member Cooper not to attack people’s children, even if it is the Prime Minister? Mr Commissioner, good morning to you. Tube noise: this morning on the Jubilee line we measured 123 decibels passing Bermondsey. This is not a party-political issue and I do not want to make party-political points on this. We all want this to be sorted. Now, you have almost sorted the Elizabeth line. Are you going to be able to sort Tube noise, and how, please?