• Reference: 2025/1765
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2024/3248, in which you said: “To date, Transport for London (TfL) has introduced 11.79km of new bus lanes on the TfL and borough road network and remains on track to achieve the 25km target by end March 2025.” Yet, according to the TfL bus priority webpage, this 25km target has been pushed back until December 2025. Could you explain the reasons for this delay?

• Reference: 2025/1764
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

What were the actions that arose from the Transport for London (TfL) bi-annual Meal and Grocery Delivery Company Road Safety Forum held on 6 February 2025, which was dedicated to e-bikes?

• Reference: 2025/1763
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Could you confirm what data, analysis and reports you plan to publish to assess the environmental, social, economic and traffic impacts of the Silvertown Road Tunnel since it opened and when you will do so?

• Reference: 2025/1762
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Could you provide the baseline and expected traffic flow changes for all vehicle types arising from the opening of the Silvertown Road Tunnel for: a) Dartford Crossings, b) Woolwich Ferry, c) Blackwall Tunnels, d) Silvertown Road Tunnel, e) Rotherhithe Tunnel, f) Tower Bridge, g) London Bridge, h) Southwark Bridge, i) Blackfriars Bridge, j) Greenwich Foot Tunnel, and k) Woolwich Foot tunnel?

• Reference: 2025/1761
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Please can you tell me: a) what meetings you have had with the Whitgift Foundation regarding the regeneration of Croydon town centre, b) who has been present at the meetings, and c) how you are ensuring that residents are able to coproduce and benefit from any plans?

• Reference: 2025/1760
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

What are you asking the Government for in the June Spending Review to support the acquisition and building of more social housing?

• Reference: 2025/1759
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you endorse the general calls made in the housing charity Shelter report, Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy, for a new, 10-year Affordable Homes Programme worth £30 - 38.2bn in the first five years (with an appropriate amount allocated to London)?

• Reference: 2025/1758
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Last month, the Queens Market Traders Union wrote to Newham Council requesting a freeze on the proposed increases to their pitch fees. In this letter, signed by almost 50 traders, they described how the well-documented issues with works funded under the Good Growth Fund and carried out by Newham council have been detrimental to their businesses over the past sixteen months, citing a 15 - 40 per cent drop in takings for their traders. Given their concerns derive from the poor management of the Good Growth Fund, will you contact the council and endorse their request for a rent freeze...

• Reference: 2025/1757
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Do you intend to renew funding for the Good Growth Fund, your flagship regeneration programme, when the current programme ends this year?

• Reference: 2025/1756
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Your Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 enables councils to purchase and convert properties for social rent. How many London boroughs have successfully bid for CHAP funding?