• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): My starting question is to the Mayor. Mr Mayor, in your manifesto you said you want “a more ambitious approach to step-free access on London Underground and TfL-run stations”. We heard this morning that we have a new Commissioner and you clearly are the newly elected Mayor of London. I want to hear, really, how you are going to bring about this new change to this enduring call from Assembly Members and users of London Underground stations for step-free access?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Brown, we all know about the big revenue cuts that have been made to TfL’s budget by the Government and that the commercial income work that is being done by Graeme Craig and his team is absolutely crucial to TfL’s future. I think we are all agreed on that. I personally am one of the big cheerleaders for what he is doing. The business plan states that there is going to be £3.4 billion of commercial income generated over the lifetime of the business plan. When that assumption was made, the 50% affordable housing target and...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Brown. My question is for you, sir. I am delighted that you think you can juggle so many balls in terms of the efficiency savings, in terms of the operational requirements of the network and in terms of extracting - as particularly my question is to do with - the land value in your brownfield estate. You may be interested to hear that yesterday Deputy Mayor Murray [James Murray, Deputy Mayor for Housing] sat in this very room and he talked about lower land values to achieve the 50% affordable target that the Mayor...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, in the past you have said that you would wish to see the increase in the proportion of TfL’s budget spent on cycling. Your predecessor planned to spend about 1.44% in this budget year. The Assembly has done a scrutiny report that said, really, it should be up to 2% to bring us in line with other pro-cycling cities. What do you think? What do you hope to devote to cycling by the end of your first term?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Leonie Cooper AM: I would like Mr Mayor to answer my question. Good morning. I wanted to ask you about the pledge to use TfL land for housing and I wondered if you could tell us a bit more about what sites you are planning to fast-track for housing.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Steve O’Connell AM: To Mr Mayor, and thank you again for your early commitment to the tram extensions across Sutton and Crystal Palace. I look forward to working with you to achieve those in this term. This is on the same subject of the freeze. As you will know, I am like you a proud south Londoner and have always felt for a long time that south London has not always had the favours from TfL that Zones 1, 2 and 3 have had. I hope to work with you to address that. Linking to your fares freeze promise, it...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Will you supply us with the times that you opposed your Government’s strategy to annual reductions in taxpayer funding to TfL?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Commissioner, the Mayor has said that the review he has asked you to conduct will ensure that TfL provides “a modern and affordable transport” system. I wrote that down while he was speaking and so hopefully I have quoted him correctly. Is it your view that TfL has been running an expensive and antiquated system for the last eight years?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Joanne McCartney AM: This is to the Mayor but I will happily welcome Mike’s comments as well and it is about your promise on air quality. It was a major manifesto commitment and one of the ways that TfL can have a substantive impact on air quality is by cleaning up the bus fleet. Could you just tell us in brief what your plans are for cleaning up London’s bus fleet?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Commissioner, the Mayor wishes to merge the engineering function of TfL to ensure shared procurement and office functions in order to save millions of pounds every year to deliver the wonderful manifesto of the Mayor. What plans do you have to identify other duplications within TfL that can be streamlined to save money?