• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, are you aware that the Garden Bridge Trust has stated that it is £30 million short of the £115 million it needs to raise from the public?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: The National Audit Office has shone a welcome light on how the Chancellor [The Rt Honourable George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer] rushed ahead and poured public money into the Garden Bridge in what was quoted as an ‘unorthodox’ way. Will you now ensure that every detail of your involvement with the Garden Bridge is made public, including answering October 2015 Mayor’s Questions that I have asked and providing full details of every dinner and meeting on your GLA-funded trip to San Francisco?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Tom Copley AM: Mr Mayor, I wanted to ask you about the Garden Bridge. In February 2013, you took a 24-hour taxpayer-funded trip to San Francisco, along with various GLA and TfL officers, which cost taxpayers £10,000. This was to try to raise private sponsorship for the Garden Bridge. In December 2015 at the GLA Oversight Committee, you promised Len Duvall that you would, subject to advice, release the full list of who accompanied you. Why have you not released this yet?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. Although the Transport Committee has not had a chance to meet to discuss your proposals, I am pleased that a majority of the proposals and the responses that the Transport Committee put in have found their way into TfL’s document. However, there will be some disappointment that there is not protection of people’s right to book a minicab up to seven days in advance. I hope that that is something where there will be a review mechanism as the market changes. There are many people not of the iPhone generation...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, is this an exhaustive response from TfL to the whole of the consultation that went on? You mentioned certain aspects, but clearly there are others. I remember that there was the matter of a five-minute waiting time and so on.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you. The Mayor has just said there would be a plan to cut £2 billion from TfL by another candidate, whose name I will not mention. I have seen media reports of £1.9 billion, which the media have been attributing to TfL. I would like to ask the Commissioner, Mr Brown, is that a figure, either the £2 billion or the £1.9 billion that TfL has come up with? Was it from a TfL source? Do you own that figure? Then I would like to ask you about the assumptions behind it.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: The particular routes I am concerned about, Mr Mayor, are those that are going to be affected by Conservative Hertfordshire County Council’s decision to cut £390,000 from those services, on top of the £1.5 million they cut last year, which threatens a number of outer London bus routes, which criss-cross my constituency and outer London and in and out of Hertfordshire - including the 142, 292, 298, 107 and 258. These routes are all affected and are essential to outer London residents.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Richard Tracey AM: This is a question for the Commissioner. Commissioner, I really do appreciate the direction of travel that we have been hearing about, but do you not think it would be a good idea if drivers, when they are changing over on the streets, were to shut off their engines? There are examples we have noticed in Putney High Street, in my constituency, where there are particular pollution problems and it is very unhelpful if the drivers do leave the engines running for three or four minutes while the do the changeover.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Len Duvall AM: This will be a humdinger, then. Mr Mayor, 2000 and 2008 there was a 34% increase in bus kilometres. You, under your watch, for a period of 2008 to 2016 can barely make less than 4.5% in bus kilometres. Why have you not expanded the bus fleet despite the growth in London’s population of 11.24% over the same period?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Given that this is my final TfL plenary it would be remiss of me not to go through the annual ritual of raising step‑free access at a particular Tube station that has more people passing through it than Gatwick Airport every year, which is of course South Kensington. This is probably my eighth attempt to try to get some movement on this particular issue. I wondered if any progress had been made on allowing disabled people, people with prams and other vehicles that would like to access those incredible cultural assets, as well as the residents...