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London Victims’ Commissioner July 2025 Update

  • Reference: 2025/3150
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
The July 2025 update from the London Victims’ Commissioner contained no information relating to the victims of road traffic collisions, which fall under the Commissioner’s remit. Given there was a 16 per cent increase in road fatalities in London in 2024 compared to the previous year, this appears to be an oversight. Could you provide a revised update to include the work of the Commissioner in this area?

Impact on private hire vehicle driver income from implementation of dynamic pricing by Uber

  • Reference: 2025/3149
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
The June 2025 report, Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber’s Algorithmic Pay and Pricing, from the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science in conjunction with Worker Info Exchange, found that Uber’s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, while increasing Uber’s share of revenue. The study discovered that drivers’ hourly income fell from over £22 to just over £19 before operating costs, and drivers are spending more unpaid time waiting for rides than before. Yet, Uber’s commission rose from around 25 per...

Relating fares increases to average earnings

  • Reference: 2025/3148
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
At the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee meeting on 22 July Professor Tony Travers said that Transport for London (TfL) fares should only go up as average earnings go up, which is lower than RPI rate of inflation plus one per cent. What would the level of fares be now if this had been the case since 2016?

Fares increases effect on ridership

  • Reference: 2025/3147
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
As part of the Government Spending Review, you have been instructed by the Minister for Transport to raise Transport for London (TfL) fares by the RPI rate of inflation plus one per cent in each of 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029. What analysis has TfL done to assess the way increasing fares impacts usage of the transport network, and is there a fares price point at which people will stop using public transport and switch to private motor vehicles, which may appear more affordable?

Streamlining of PHV licence process

  • Reference: 2025/3146
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
I appreciate the focus that Transport for London (TfL) is giving to working through the backlog of licence applications and renewals for private hire vehicle (PHV) drivers. However, I am still being contacted by drivers frustrated by a drip feed of requests from TfL for information and medical tests that delays the process and loses them money while they respond. Could you tell me: a) what analysis of the licensing process has been carried out to assess where streamlining could take place, and b) would it be possible to act on the suggestion from one PHV driver to have all...

Good Growth Fund evaluation and next steps (3)

  • Reference: 2025/3145
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
Thank you for your answer to MQ 2025/1757, in which you noted that some key learnings had already been taken from the Good Growth Fund programme. Could you provide more detail on what key lessons have already been learned and how they have informed the successor schemes?

Land banking (2)

  • Reference: 2025/3144
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
Thank you for your response to MQ 2025/2345, in which you said you had responded to the Government’s consultation on ‘Speeding up Build Out’. What do you want to see from Government reforms?

Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 funding for demolitions (6)

  • Reference: 2025/3143
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
Thank you for your response to MQ 2025/2211. Could you provide the same data for the AHP 2016-23?

Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 funding for demolitions (5)

  • Reference: 2025/3142
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
Thank you for your response to MQ 2025/2211. What do you expect the number of homes built on regeneration schemes to be, broken down by tenure and number of bedrooms?

Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 funding for demolitions (4)

  • Reference: 2025/3141
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 11 September 2025
Thank you for your response to MQ 2025/2211. Could you provide a breakdown of the 1273 social homes expected to be demolished by number of bedrooms?
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