• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, a year ago I asked a written question about particulate pollution monitoring on the approaching roads to the Silvertown Tunnel, and received a vague reply about four months later. I wrote to you again back in June [2021], but I have not yet had a response. Where precisely will you be monitoring particulate matter on the approach roads to your tunnel?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that update on the Night Tube. I was 15 when a friend and I interrupted a black cab driver pushing a woman into the back of his vehicle and climbing on top of her in an East London backstreet. Just a few years ago I had to throw on a hoodie at 3am when a taxi driver had locked my housemate in his car and would not let her out until she showed him her vagina. I have witnessed, heard stories, and experienced inappropriate sexual behaviour at night on London’s streets in...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Mr Mayor, following the comments from the Prime Minister, which indicate he does not support calls for making misogyny a hate crime, what can the London Assembly do to support recent calls, both by yourself and others, for this to happen? Bearing in mind that the Home Office earlier this year indicated its support for misogyny to be accorded by police forces on an experimental basis.

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to talk to you, if I can please, about the car and motorcycle scrappage scheme, which for anybody that is not aware is for the poor and the disabled in London. How much funding is still available in that scheme please?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Emma Best AM: A study by King’s College [London] has found that 99% of Londoners still breathe air with a higher concentration of PM2.5 than allowed by the WHO. This has not changed over the last five years. What are your plans to make sure this does change and what are your targets by the end of this term?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Thank you for inviting me to your speech at the Barbican on 23 September [2021] when you said you wanted to walk the walk on combating air quality changes rather than talk the talk. Will you follow your own advice, please, and dispose of your own old family petrol car that you admitted you still had not got around to changing in a subsequent interview in The Times newspaper?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Anne Clarke AM: I am sure everyone in this room has met with many residents in this horrific situation. This crisis directly impacts so many, including many of our key workers in London, and it is undeniably life-changing and terrible. What do you think it will take for the Government to act and come up with a real plan to finally end this scandal?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. I would like to pick up on this question about e-scooters and the ambiguous legal position that you have just been talking about and the enforcement. It is quite obvious, whether they are the legal trial ones or the illegal private ones, they present a real danger on pavements, particularly to blind pedestrians, frail pedestrians, and I am sure we all have a mailbag on that. However, what I also see is they have a great potential as an alternative to cars - and we are talking about a 21st century city and tackling climate...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: I need to understand how you think I am expressing crocodile tears.

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Mr Mayor, this is a really important discussion that we are having, but I am slightly concerned at the implication that the current situation, which is very concerning to all of us, affects only London - it does not only affect Black communities in London - and also that it may have only arisen since 2016. I can remember working in northeast London when Clapton was widely known to everybody there as ‘Murder Mile’ and that well predated 2016. Unfortunately, at that time, it was quite predominantly young Black men who were often murdering each other. I...