• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): Assembly Member Garratt. Neil Garratt AM: Mr Mayor, when you talk about the funding deal for TfL last year and also in the CSR, you always forget for some reason to mention that the Labour Government has imposed five years of cumulative inflation-busting fare rises on Londoners. Do you think Londoners can afford that?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): You might wish to write back to the Assembly Member with an answer to that and share it with the rest of the Assembly as well. I am sure we would be interested, but the Member is out of time. Can I ask Assembly Member Cooper? Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, Commissioner, and good morning, Mr Mayor. In fact, I wanted to ask about keeping passengers safe on the public transport system in relation to crime as well. Just picking up on what Assembly Member Wilson was just saying there...

• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): OK, that begins the initial round of questioning. We will now open it up to other Assembly Members. Can I name the next three speakers, Assembly Member Wilson, Assembly Member Cooper, Assembly Member Garratt. We will take them in that order. Let us start with Assembly Member Wilson. Alex Wilson AM: Thank you, Chair. Can I take this opportunity to wish TfL a very happy birthday. Do not worry, I am not going to start singing because I do not think that would be fair to inflict on anybody. My first question is to Mr...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): Assembly Member Bokhari. Hina Bokhari OBE AM: Thank you, Chair. This is a question for Andy first. I have received reports from a prominent trans rights campaigner, copied into an email to yourself and the Mayor, that the staff at TfL had been banned from displaying flags or lanyards in support of trans rights, specifically during Pride Month. Is this true?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): Assembly Member Russell. Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, and good morning to both of you. I want to start by picking up on the hot weather that we have just been having. We have all seen images in the news of thermometers showing very high temperatures, up to 40 degrees in bus driver cabs, and drivers are reporting symptoms of fatigue, of heat stress and dehydration. What I am interested in is, particularly on the new electric buses, that the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, how they are maintained and how they are working...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): Assembly Member Baker. Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. My initial question to both of you and is again about the CSR. You have both given us some highlights and some things that you might have wanted that are missing, but I would really like to get a sense of, overall, are you happy with it? Was it good for London? What is the overall feeling?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): We will now return to the clock, and I will call on Assembly Member Prince with a question. Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Good morning. Commissioner, you mentioned about the Government not providing as much funding as we would like. In fact, Mr Mayor, you mentioned your disappointment in that. I might come to that a bit later. The thing today is the Piccadilly line. We see that the trains were delivered in the autumn, you could have started testing, and I notice that there was a delay. I do not know if...

• Reference: 2025/3226
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): We now move into the question and answer session with, Transport for London (TfL). Joining us in the Chamber, we have Sir Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Chair of TfL, and Andy Lord, Commissioner of TfL. Welcome to the meeting. Over the next year, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversaries of both the London Assembly and TfL. TfL was officially formed on 3 July 2000. We are pleased to welcome our guest on this anniversary of that day. Since 2000, TfL has transformed how millions of Londoners and visitors to our city travel around...