• Reference: 2023/3209
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Following the additional data provided since the release of your Budget Guidance, are you confident TfL passenger demand will reach 90% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2023/24?

• Reference: 2023/3208
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Your 2024/25 Budget Guidance states that there is no confirmation that the business rates pilot arrangements which set the GLA’s retained business rates income at 37% will continue in 2024/25. Do you have an estimate of how much income the GLA would lose per annum if these arrangements were not continued?

• Reference: 2023/3207
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Your 2024/25 Budget Guidance states: ‘no inflationary uplift was provided on the element of funding relating to the former Transport for London (TfL) capital grant; and this government decision has been assumed to now continue in all future years.’ What impact did the lack of this inflationary uplift have on TfL’s capital budget last year?

• Reference: 2023/3206
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

This will be your second year of implementing climate budgeting at the GLA. What do you think were the key benefits from introducing this approach last year and how will you be developing this work in advance of a second year of climate budgeting for 2024/25?

• Reference: 2023/3205
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Research published on 15 August 2023 by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that, London receives less funding for local government and police than their share of estimated needs. Will you be using this independent research to join with local authority leaders and police chiefs to make the case for fairer funding settlements for London?

• Reference: 2023/3204
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Following the news that Paris has fumigated areas of the city for the first time to kill tiger mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus as they become increasingly common in Europe due to climate change, what advice have you received on this emerging threat and what is our response?

• Reference: 2023/3203
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Given the problems that the MPS is facing with recruitment, do you think that the Government should give the MPS further flexibility in the use of its finances, to recruit non-warranted staff to support warranted police officers in tackling crime?

• Reference: 2023/3202
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Can you provide an outline of any plans that you are preparing or have in place with regards to tackling the recruitment crisis within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), both in the short and long term?

• Reference: 2023/3201
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Do TfL have a timetable of reviews for area bus plans in Greenwich and Woolwich? If so, can you share them with me?

• Reference: 2023/3200
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Can you provide an update on the extension of the DLR from Beckton Riverside to Thamesmead? What are the future milestones for this project?