• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

I just wanted to come in on this because the reality is that TfL’s finances were made significantly worse under a former Conservative Mayor when this grant was cut and this is now even more compounded by the fact that London does not get its fair share of vehicle excise duty. Based on that and based on the fact that we saw a number of wasted projects where money was spent, like a Garden Bridge that no one wanted, will you be making the case to the Government in the run-up to the [Comprehensive] Spending Review to make sure that...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, in 2014, former Assembly Member Victoria Borwick produced a report called Hidden Hate and it was about disability hate crime. One of the recommendations that she made there was that the police adopt the Pegasus reporting system and that all attacks against disabled people should all be investigated on the basis that they could be a hate crime against disabled people. Is that something that you would be willing to take to the MPS for them to adopt?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Thank you very much, Chairman. Mr Mayor, I just wanted to come back to the motion that we passed only at the end of December [2018] on declaring a climate emergency and to thank you for taking that forward so quickly and making that declaration. I am still very concerned - and I gather that you are as well from your reply to Assembly Member Russell - that the Government is not taking this seriously enough in terms of a 2050 target, let alone bringing forward the action that is needed. The Committee on Climate Change has also been making...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, the Prime Minister and the Government may have survived a parliamentary confidence vote, but can Londoners have confidence in our Government’s ability to deliver a good outcome for our city over Brexit?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, I want to raise with you the issue of EU Londoners. I know you have concerns about the process that the Government is aiming to set up. I have recently met with the Chairman of the East European Forum, who is extremely concerned that under the pilot scheme the Government has tested, EU nationals who have made London their home will have to provide documentary evidence of every month of their previous five years living here to get settled status. Many East Europeans, particularly Romanians and Poles, do not have tenancy documents and may not have formal contracts...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, I did not get a chance to finish my question of you earlier, but I am glad I could hear your answers to the Labour Assembly Members because you did mention that after two and a half years people understand the reality of the EU. The EU is falling apart. Italian and German banks are nearing the point of collapse. In France there is civil unrest and protest at some of the measures that the EU has brought in with carbon taxes and so on. People all across Europe are very unhappy with the EU. I know that...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, in your opening report you remarked about the Government’s damaging approach to Brexit. Do you think that the Government’s pro-business post-Brexit immigration policies will be detrimental to London’s economy and how would you overcome the impact on key sectors such as NHS London and the construction and hospitality industries?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, Kent County Council’s Brexit preparedness plans forecast that in a no-deal scenario Kent will have to hold up to 10,000 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on a routine basis. What contingency plans does TfL have for the impact of this scenario on London’s roads and how might it impact the flow of essential goods like food and medicine into the city?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Thank you, Chairman. Getting back to reality rather than UKIP unicorns, would you agree that the meaning of the meaningful vote this week in Parliament was that the Prime Minister has suffered the biggest ever defeat of a Government in history with a majority of 230 against her deal, which scale of loss in normal times would have led inevitably to her resignation - not, as Churchill might say, KBO [“Keep buggering on”] - and regardless sticking to red lines that have been rejected by the Commons? Is it not about time the Prime Minister looked to the interests of...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

I am glad that is not coming off my time, Chairman. Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, the language with which you have just answered those questions is very important about the style and manner of this debate. One of the poor things about this debate is the use of language and some of that use of language on social media. I do not know, maybe I am old fashioned, but I listen even harder to my political opponents and sometimes I even respect them for their views, albeit I may profoundly disagree with them. However, when a Member describes...