• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Mr Mayor, is the issue really about public consultation? You will be aware that during COVID, public consultation has become much better across London boroughs with online forms of communication, on planning for example. All we really need to do on transport so that it does not become a political hot potato is to have more public consultation. Therefore, will you make sure that TfL now does start public consultation for all of the emergency schemes that have gone in during COVID?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Andrew Boff AM: Can you write to me on how you will enhance the air-quality monitoring arrangements around schools on the routes to the Silvertown Tunnel before, during and after its construction?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Andrew Boff AM: Will you be restoring the flu jab campaign for TfL staff that was discontinued when you became Mayor?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to slightly change the tone on this. This is a completely non-political question. With 10 weeks to go before Christmas, I wanted to ask you to really consider - and I have given your office notice of this question - a special Christmas present for the West End, where one in 10 London jobs come from. Will you please consider for the four Saturdays before Christmas and for Boxing Day suspending the Congestion Charge on those four days? It will really help save jobs in the West End businesses and particularly...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, thank you, Mr Mayor. A fair funding deal for TfL means jobs retained and created across the UK. In your opening answer you said that there are some 43,000 jobs in TfL’s supply chain and I understand 68% of them are outside of London. Can you just explain a little bit more what happens to those 43,000 UK-wide jobs if investment is not forthcoming?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

David Kurten AM: Mr Mayor, it seems like we are back in 2016 with all of these statements you are making and the points you are putting to the Assembly. We have had four and a half years since the referendum and the right thing to do is actually to push ahead and make sure that we come out of the EU properly on 31 December [2020]. We should not be using COVID as an excuse to delay Brexit for another year and have another year of transition as you are saying we should do. Do you not see the...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Andrew Boff AM: Last Thursday, the Tower Hamlets Development Committee considered an infill development at Brunton Wharf, which would prevent direct access by fire tenders to a block on the estate. Despite the safety concerns of the residents, some of whom live in a 16-storey block, the Committee were unwilling to wait for a report by the LFB and decided to give those plans permission anyway. Will you write to the Mayor of Tower Hamlets expressing your concerns and asking whether Tower Hamlets residents can feel safe with the decisions made by their Council?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. I hope that we are in agreement, Mr Mayor. That would be good. One of the simplest changes that you could make to protect the interests of disabled people in Streetspace schemes would be to ensure that wherever buses go, black cabs can go as well. I was really reassured when Andy Byford told me at the Budget and Performance [Committee] meeting that, I quote: “I consider black cabs to be part of the public transport offer and there is certainly no intention to treat them in some inferior way or degrade them in terms...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair, yes. Mr Mayor, you may be aware that PHE is based in Colindale, in my constituency, and is a major local employer. Do you agree with me that the decision to scrap PHE is a political move by the Government in order to scapegoat them for its own poor response to the COVID crisis? Do you further agree that in the middle of a global health crisis is the worst possible time to scrap the body leading the national response to the virus? Given the high toll of coronavirus in London, the loss is...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Len Duvall AM: I am very short on time. There are lots of things that have impacted on your Economic Development Strategy. I think Assembly Member Cooper outlined Brexit being one, and COVID and the international economic downturn. Two issues. I am not clear about the debates and whether they have happened. I should say when you are elected, but - for the doubters in the room - if you are elected in May 2021, will you be developing a new Economic Development Strategy and in that, if you are going to do that, what is your thinking about London...