• Reference: 2025/2331
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

The Met Police have recently purchased new Sandcat armoured SUVs, however when the registration of one of these vehicles (LX25 AUP) is looked up on the Transport for London (TfL) ULEZ checker, the information supplied states that they are both diesel fuelled and have 0g/km emissions. Could you tell me if the Met Police have any documentation on the real-world emissions of these vehicles, and how TfL assesses the accuracy of data supplied into the ULEZ system for specialist vehicles such as these?

• Reference: 2025/2330
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

I have noticed that the pollarding of trees outside City Hall has removed much needed shade directly before a heatwave and a prolonged sunny period. This seems to be a pattern in other parts of London, where landowners are scheduling works without considering the benefits of tree canopy in enabling Londoners to cope better with hotter and sunnier weather. Could you tell me if the GLA and its arms-length bodies have any guidance on the timing of tree maintenance in areas where shade is otherwise unavailable, and if not if you plan to provide any?

• Reference: 2025/2329
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Campaigners have raised concerns about the risk of pollution in the aquifers under London. What assessment do you have of the strategic risk to London from aquifer pollution, and what steps is your strategic work, in tandem with local councils and landowners taking to avoid the risks of contamination by forever chemicals and other pollutants?

• Reference: 2025/2328
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Campaigners have raised concerns about the lack of checks on water abstraction licences, with an officer saying to The Guardian that many licences go unchecked. Will you support a requirement to move to a regular inspection regime for all abstraction of water from sources of water that London depends on?

• Reference: 2025/2327
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Campaigners concerned about the proposals at Teddington from Thames Water to abstract water from the Thames at some times of year are worried that the ‘sewage pump’ proposed to supply treated sewage into the river will not use the highest levels of sewage treatment and would operate year round. Would you consider this plan to be in conflict with a move to healthy and clean rivers, and what lessons do you draw from international experience of such schemes?

• Reference: 2025/2326
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Transport for London (TfL) have now announced a PPA for the Longfield Solar Energy Farm. Could you tell me what proportion of TfL energy needs will this farm provide and what are the next steps on taking TfL renewable energy usage up to 100 per cent, including the expected portfolio mix of energy sources in 2028 and 2030?

• Reference: 2025/2325
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

In Transport for London (TfL) papers on the planned Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for renewable energy it was stated that up to 200GWh or 12.5 per cent of TfL’s annual demand was the aim. The announced PPA for the Longfield Solar Energy Farm refers to a contract to take 80GWh per year, but this only uses a fifth of the capacity of this site. Could you tell me why TfL chose to use less energy from this site than the maximum possible?

• Reference: 2025/2324
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

On the London Partnership Board web page it says in reference to the mission boards that: “More detailed meeting materials will be published once Boards begin to meet formally.” Some of these boards for growth and health have now started to have formal meetings, but all that is available for these meetings is a very basic agenda list, with no date for the next meeting and no formal papers – will you ensure more transparency with meeting papers and agendas for mission boards?

• Reference: 2025/2323
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

There appears to be some inconsistency in how strategies that you have adopted have updates on their progress published. There is an annual update to the TfL Board on the Transport Strategy, and the Annual Monitoring Report for the London Plan but several other strategies have no such regular update, or have had them curtailed such as the Environment Strategy or the Food Strategy. For each of your adopted, formal strategies will you confirm a) when they were adopted, b) how updates on progress are communicated and c) the date and location of the last update?

• Reference: 2025/2322
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 11 July 2025

Your London-Wide Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessment (GRTANA) is due to be published. Do you believe there has been adequate community engagement for this document be helpful for, and supported by, GRT communities?