• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Nicholas Rogers AM: This is a question to Commissioner Byford. Commissioner, could you give us an update, please, on the status of the Piccadilly line signalling upgrade? It is of particular interest to my constituents in Hounslow, and last year your predecessor described it as the number one priority for TfL. Could you give us an update on where we are please?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): I have a series of questions, mainly for the Commissioner, Andy Byford. Good morning, Andy. As you said earlier, you took over as Commissioner during lockdown, not at the beginning. Were there any processes in place that you changed straight away on your arrival?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Emma Best AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. You will be excited to hear my questions for you as well. Following slightly on from Assembly Member Fortune, you say that power is now devolved to councils. Given the state of play and given in your own manifesto you committed to review all policies and programmes to reduce health inequalities, I understand your answer just then but do you believe, though, that there is some authority for you to take in making sure that the Housing Strategy has targets for family housing to avoid the overcrowding, which has had a particular effect...

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Peter Fortune AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Health in All Policies will of course include housing policy, and I was quite interested to read the long history of requests from right across the Chamber, but also from subject experts as well. Kevin Fenton [London Regional Director, PHE] , the health and inequalities specialist Professor [Gurch] Randhawa [Director of the Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire], the Chief Executive of Age UK Camden [Nikki Morris] and the Head of Policy and Campaigns at Mind [Vicki Nash] all requested that you review your housing policies. Mindful of some of the research...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Zack Polanski AM: My question is for you, Mr Mayor, and then I will come to the Fire Commissioner. You spoke with Assembly Member Sheikh before about TfL and inequality. I want to ask you, though, about the LFB. What role does it have in tackling inequality in London? Would it be better for it to have a clear inequalities strategy?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Siân Berry AM: These are questions about transport and inequality. Mr Mayor, you can answer this first. We spoke about TfL’s deal the other week. I think you would agree with me that Londoners with the lowest incomes and with the most disadvantages have suffered the most due to the impact of these funding deals. I am thinking particularly about fare rises and the suspension of free travel before 9am for people holding Freedom Passes and 60+ London Oyster cards. Would you agree with me on that?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Susan Hall AM: This is addressed to the Mayor. Good morning. Do you think your Health in All Policies approach was successful when implementing your Street Space schemes across London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Andrew Boff AM: I wanted to have a word with Georgia Gould, who brought up the question of the impact of COVID-19 on housing. I wondered if Camden Council would be reviewing its housing policies in the light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. I wanted to go back and cover this ground of additional support for particular groups. What does that look like for the recovery programme? Who gets to decide which groups we are going to support more and why? We talked a lot about the BAME community and the impact of COVID on my community, but also white working-class men have had very poor health outcomes from it. Who is identifying which groups are going to be supported and what is the criteria around that? This is to Councillor Georgia and maybe to Philip Graham...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Chair. Could I look to Philip Graham as the only representative of the GLA family, please? Would you agree with the point that Jace Tyrrell made when he was saying that there is not a very good comparison with London when you look at other major cities that are getting far more people on their public transport now than we are? Do you think that is possibly down to confidence on public transport? Could that reason possibly be because people do not feel safe on our transport system? I am constantly getting complaints from my...