• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you very much. On the same theme, Mr Mayor, I fully support Assembly Member Pidgeon’s comments around this. The fact of the matter is, in Westminster, they had four working days’ notice and in Havering eight days’ notice. In Sutton MOPAC put the wrong date on. This, to me, represents a rather underhand way to approach engagement. Londoners would be quite happy for you to impose a date if there is plenty of notice. Assembly Member Prince and I joined the previous Deputy Mayor [for Policing and Crime] across London and met some wonderful people across...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Andrew Dismore AM: With some of the immediate risks that are appearing, Mr Mayor, would you agree that part of the problem that has emerged from that leaked Government document is that EU nationals who are here already are starting to leave and that those who might have thought about coming to work in our public services such as the National Health Service (NHS) are not coming, creating a real vacancy problem, particularly in the NHS, for example? Would you also agree that one of the immediate risks is that the Brexit negotiations so far have been so shambolic on...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, this is an important question and I thank the Green Group for asking it. Do you accept, Mr Mayor, that the human rights legislation works both ways and that public-sector employees, police, transport operators and all, should also not have to go about their duties being spat at in some way? The use of hoods, if it is monitored, if it is done correctly, is also around protection of those carrying out their duties on behalf of us.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Tony Devenish AM: We have agreed in this room before, Mr Mayor, that failures in customer services are a problem for TfL and you have made responses in the past about how you are going to improve TfL’s customer services. Can you update us at all on that or would you prefer to write to us on that?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning. This is of course the biggest regeneration project in Western Europe. To quote somebody you know in the property industry, you are trying to build a spacecraft with a budget that my residents, some of them, spend on their children’s wedding. That was one that I heard recently. You are trying to do three things, Liz. I am trying to step back. (1) You are trying to build tens of thousands of homes and mixed developments within the six years that perhaps the man you report to is particularly focused on, so the industry and...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Developers and designers and landowners effectively will get away with what they can in terms of developments. Is there not some advantage in advance of developments being submitted for planning approval of saying what the parameters of such a development are going to be?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Fiona Twycross AM: Thank you. I was pleased to hear about the work you have commissioned on intensification because of the point that my colleague Nicky Gavron [AM] made about employment in industrial land.

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: I expected my colleague to go first but, anyway, can you provide me an update into the work being done to refine the results of the Development Infrastructure Fund (DIF), which you referred to in your meeting in March of this year? Can you update us on what work has been done on that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Good morning, Liz and Victoria. I want to ask a few questions about the industry and business premises and land in the OPDC area. You have there the largest concentration, probably, in western Europe of business and, broadly speaking, industrial premises and land. It is, arguably, the engine of London and the UK’s industrial economy. It is very farsighted of you that you have taken out an Article 4 direction to block the change of use to housing overnight from warehousing and from offices. When did that come into force as a direction?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. May I raise an issue about locality versus density impact? The question is: how can the OPDC produce a successful local destination from the start of this project, given the tensions that there are or there will be resulting from the densities and heights required to fund this national rail interchange?