• Reference: 2021/4397
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

What steps are being taken to resolve the issue of buses not observing 20 mph speed limits. I have for example received reports of speeding buses on the routes 200, 413, 152 and 655 using Grand Drive and Haydons Road in Merton.

• Reference: 2021/4396
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

What air quality monitoring (both for health and quality of life) do you fund or do you plan to fund, at waste and recycling centres in London such as Waldo Road site in Bromley, including Total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) pollution?

• Reference: 2021/4395
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Please outline how you are working with boroughs to ensure there is good childcare provision across London, particularly in relation to supporting and protecting existing children’s centres across London given their importance to the capital’s economy?

• Reference: 2021/4394
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

The 50m pool in Crystal Palace Sports Centre has been closed since March 2020. Can you provide me with an update on the discussion over repair work, as well as an explanation of why progress is so slow and what you are doing to push the importance of this facility to the local community and the need for urgent action?

• Reference: 2021/4393
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Please set out the donations GLA functional bodies have received from the Freemasons over the last five years broken down by (i) the functional body, (ii) the amounts received and when they were received.

• Reference: 2021/4392
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

One in five of the older Londoners polled in a recent survey by Age UK cited a lack of “access to good enough equipment and / or broadband” when asked about the reasons why they didn’t use the internet more. A lack of access to the internet can often mean missing out on more affordable online only deals from energy providers and many other services. Will you bring together internet providers and call on them to introduce social tariffs for broadband that are either free or genuinely affordable for older people, including adding Pension Credit as part of the eligibility...

• Reference: 2021/4391
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Vaccination rates in London continue to be lower than the UK average and this is likely to be a contributing factor discouraging tourists from returning to the capital, with London’s hotel occupancy still lower than rest of UK. What more are you doing with boroughs and others to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2021/4390
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

The UK is out of step with rest of Europe in not having a lower rate of VAT on ticketing for cultural events and experiences, which has a significant economic impact on London. Will you push Government for VAT ticketing reform to help stimulate the recovery of the arts sector after Covid?

• Reference: 2021/4389
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Older Londoners play an important part in London’s economy, particularly on our high streets, with research from Homes For Later Living showing 80% of people in retirement flats use shops daily. What are you doing to ensure London’s high streets are more welcoming and attractive to older Londoners?

• Reference: 2021/4388
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

On 1 November 2021 there was a serious incident in which an e-scooter battery caught fire on a Tube train and continued to burn on the platform at Parsons Green Tube Station. Can you confirm a full investigation into this is taking place by TfL, including consideration of whether it is safe to allow e-scooters to be carried on public transport at all?