• Reference: 2025/1798
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

The DSEI arms fair, scheduled to return to London in September, will host a number of arms companies supplying weapons, components and military technology used by the Israeli Government in its military actions in the Gaza Strip and its attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Last year, dozens of UN experts called on all states and companies to cease arms transfers to Israel. They warned that “continuing arms transfers to Israel may be seen as knowingly providing assistance for operations that contravene international human rights and international humanitarian laws and may result in profit from such assistance.” Given this...

• Reference: 2025/1797
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Previously, you have rightly said that the DSEI arms fair ‘has no place in our city.’ However, it is due to return to London in September. Could you confirm if you will: a) write to the event’s organiser on behalf of Londoners, to request that the event is cancelled, b) use your position to publicly speak out against the fair again, and support protests against the fair, and c) meet with campaign groups opposing the DSEI arms fair to discuss further action you could take?

• Reference: 2025/1796
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Following the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, the British Transport Police (BTP) issued an interim position advising its "officers that any same sex searches in custody are to be undertaken in accordance with the biological birth sex of the detainee.” Constituents have contacted me concerned about their safety in light of this position. What conversations has Transport for London (TfL) had with the BTP regarding the impact of this advice on the safety and wellbeing of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people using public transport in London and are you concerned that it undermines...

• Reference: 2025/1795
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/0883. Your London Growth Plan promotes both polycentric growth and walkable ‘innovation districts’, yet it fails to include any actions to deliver walkable districts other than Oxford Street. How will this transport aspiration in the London Growth Plan be delivered?

• Reference: 2025/1794
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

How are you assessing the development of Local Transport Plans as proposed in the English Devolution White Paper for all Mayoral Strategic Authorities and any impact on your Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), which is a statutory document required by the GLA Act 1999?

• Reference: 2025/1793
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

What legal powers are you considering using to ensure that if Oxford Street is pedestrianised, space and priority on surrounding streets is reallocated to buses, cycling and walking?

• Reference: 2025/1792
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

What assessment have you made of the capability of London’s local authorities to deliver active travel schemes well, and do you have any plans to take up the offer in the English Devolution White Paper for Active Travel England to provide capability assessments for London's local authorities?