• 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...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

David Kurten AM: It is good to see you. On the same topic, I know that you have made proposals to turn many of the streets in the City of London area into a car-free zone, and your proposals I have seen intend to make London Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Clerkenwell Road, Kingsway, Moorgate, Bishopsgate and many other roads just available to walking, cycling and buses only. I am sure you would agree with me, Mr Mayor, that black taxis are a vital service for Londoners, particularly to disabled people, and they are 100% disabled access for people who cannot walk...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): I would not normally take a follow‑up question from the Member who has put that question because this is not Mayor’s update but because of the publicity and the concerns that I know of and a number of Members have raised about Hammersmith Bridge, can I ask Assembly Member Devenish if he has anything briefly to say in response to the Mayor? Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. As you know, it has been shut for 11 months, Hammersmith Bridge. We still do not have a direct plan of when we are going to...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

Tom Copley AM: Mr Mayor, you have made a very welcome pledge on London becoming a carbon-neutral city by 2030. Of course TfL will need to contribute to that and so I wonder if you could tell me what TfL is doing to make the most of opportunities to generate renewable energy.