• Reference: 2021/0013
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

How many hours of Transport for London (TfL) employee time has been spent on negotiating funding deals with the Government since March 2020, and what has been the cost to TfL?

• Reference: 2021/0012
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

What engagement has taken place to date with environmental groups, Londoners and other stakeholders to develop the London Recovery Board’s green new deal?

• Reference: 2021/0011
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

A constituent has written to me asking why Londoners affected by air pollution should have to pay to ‘buy in’ to the Breathe London network, rather than the businesses responsible for generating the toxic air that’s causing so much harm to people's lives. In the wake of the Coroner’s finding in December 2020 that air pollution played a role in the tragic death of nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in 2013, shouldn’t you be asking delivery and construction companies, for example, to pay for air pollution sensors?

• Reference: 2021/0010
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Your announcement on 14 December 2020 stated that it was for community groups, charities and boroughs to ‘buy in’ to the Breathe London network. One of the first hotspots of concern identified in your 24 July 2019 press release was a bus garage in Holloway. Will you require bus companies to install air pollution monitoring in bus depots given this concerning finding, the cheap cost of sensors and the potential links from air pollution exposure to worsened outcomes from coronavirus and other causes?

• Reference: 2021/0009
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Real Nappies for London has calculated that, between 2016 and 2019, single-use disposable nappies created 46,843 tonnes of carbon emissions per year across London boroughs. What steps are you taking to reduce carbon emissions resulting from the use and disposal of single-use disposable nappies in London?

• Reference: 2021/0008
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Department for Transport (DfT) road traffic estimates have been revised upwards, after a benchmarking exercise to review minor road traffic flows. What work has Transport for London (TfL) undertaken to review their modelling and data in light of this revision?

• Reference: 2021/0007
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Department for Transport (DfT) road traffic estimates have been revised upwards, after a benchmarking exercise to review minor road traffic flows. Does this have a further knock-on impact on modelling of air pollution based on traffic counts such as the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (LAEI) 2016?

• Reference: 2021/0006
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

There is now peer-reviewed research by Francesca Dominici from Harvard University linking long-term exposure to air pollution with increased mortality from Covid-19. Will you commission new research to explore the impact air pollution may have had on coronavirus cases and mortality in London?

• Reference: 2021/0005
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

A constituent has raised the issue of the impact of fireworks on air pollution. What data have you collected on the impact of fireworks on air pollution across the year as well as the impact of the GLA fireworks each New Year’s Eve?

• Reference: 2021/0004
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

The London Recovery Board has a single representative from the environmental sector, and they are from a national charity. Why is there no representation for environmental sector organisations with a remit for London, such as the Environment Agency?