• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Yes, please, Chair, if I could. Thank you. Good morning, Mr Mayor. There is one issue, in all seriousness, you missed in your update and that is job creation and job protection in London. Can I give you two examples where you have power to do something that will really help real Londoners? The first is [The Rt Hon] Robert Jenrick’s [MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government] letter to you of 10 June [2020] on shovel-ready projects, which I believe all mayors and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) have to respond to by today...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Susan Hall AM: Can I nail you down, please, on this budget guidance? Clearly, there is an awful lot of work that has to be done on this by the [London Assembly’s] Budget and Performance Committee. You are saying in the next week or two. Our first meeting to look at this is on 7 July [2020]. I do not want the documents the night before so that we cannot look at them properly. Can I pin you down, please? When will we have the budget guidance through?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Len Duvall AM: Chair, I have a question later on the agenda. I do not want to abuse the position, but there are some questions arising from the Mayor’s report. I would like to ask a couple of questions. Mr Mayor, thank you very much. It is right and responsible that we take early action if we can identify problems in terms of our budget. It just comes to mind. Are we in a position where we have articulated our assessments back to central Government? Have we done it for the GLA Group and family and are we doing it...

• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

Dr Alison Moore AM: We heard from the Deputy Mayor [for Transport], Heidi Alexander, at the Transport Committee this week - and Assembly Member Bailey was there - that due to current funding arrangements, with the removal of the operating subsidy under Boris Johnson’s mayoralty, TfL is dependent on fares and other income to cover 80% of its costs. She said that if passengers do not come back, the funding model is broken, and that Londoners suffer at the hands of this political gameplaying. How important is it for the Government to restore the operating subsidy to TfL?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Will you publish in full the TfL Government bailout details today so there can be complete clarity on the discussion you just had with AM Bailey? Thank you.

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning to you all. Good morning, Mr Mayor. In your update you talked about the Congestion Charge and its reintroduction and its increase in price, etc., but in the statement released by yourself and the Government, it asked for a proposal. Did you provide the proposal for the changes you have made to the Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, you have made clear that you think people on the public transport network should wear face coverings. You asked the Government to make this compulsory, which it has refused to do. Have you considered using your powers to make it a condition of carriage to require face coverings? Such a rule could be made pretty quickly, in the same way that smoking was banned after the King’s Cross fire and more recently the ban on alcohol consumption. I would suggest that enforcement would be as much by peer pressure from other passengers as anything else...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Peter Whittle AM: Mr Mayor, I hope your family are keeping well at this time. I just want to ask. We have not had the chance to talk about how the police have responded since we last met you to discuss everything. I wondered, if you go back to the beginning of this pandemic, there was an incident on Westminster Bridge, if you remember. The police were there, including Commissioner [Dame] Cressida Dick, and a great deal of people who were obviously not socially distanced at all. It worries me because of the consistency or lack of it in the...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, a sensible way forward seems to me that we have to get into a reinstatement of the grant regime from central Government that was taken away under Boris Johnson; in fact, given away by Boris Johnson, if I can recall it rightly. Can you just remind Assembly Members what we have lost over the last four years? The reinstatement of any grant would have to be considerably more. Can we nail the myth that is going around on social media - it is really a big lie - that your fares freeze has bought TfL’s...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, in terms of some of the current budget issues coming on, and bearing in mind the negotiations that you indicated earlier around the concessionary access fares, and of course we will get to the bottom of who said what - I am very much on your side of versions of events from what happened at that particular time, when Government came out to brief against you - is one of the implications of any changes to the under-18s schemes, as I think happens outside London, that local authorities pick up the bill in budgetary issues...