• Reference: 2019/20152
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

A constituent has contacted me raising concerns that at peak hours in the morning and afternoon pedestrians are unable to cross Tower Bridge Road once they have the priority to do so. This is due to the fact that the vehicles turning right from Druid Street into Tower Bridge Road are blocking their way. What steps are being taken to regulate the traffic at these specific times?

• Reference: 2019/20151
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

TfL is currently advertising 11 public exhibitions relating to the Bakerloo Line extension, yet despite it including the proposal to convert the Hayes line to London Underground south of Lewisham there are no advertised public exhibitions being held south of Lewisham. Will TfL ensure that as part of its consultation there are public exhibitions held in such locations as Catford, lower Sydendham, New Beckenham, Clock House, Elmers End, Eden Park, West Wickham and Hayes?

• Reference: 2019/20150
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

TfL’s latest consultation on the extension of the Bakerloo line states that as part of any works to convert the Hayes line to London Underground operation it would involve making all stations fully step free, both within the stations and from street to train. Please state how many stations on the Hayes line south of Lewisham do not currently meet these standards and what is TfL’s estimate of the cost of making these access improvements?

• Reference: 2019/20149
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

In 2014 TfL released a consultation on the Bakerloo line extension which estimated the cost of the full extension from Elephant and Castle to Hayes as £2bn to 3bn and the preferred option as £3bn. This included both the tunnelled section from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham, as well as converting the National Rail line from Hayes to the standards of London Underground infrastructure. The new consultation document estimates the cost of an extension only from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham at £4.7bn to £7.9bn (in 2017 prices). Please set out the specific reasons why in such a short period...

• Reference: 2019/20148
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

On 15 October 2019, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) were stationed on Lambeth Bridge stopping members of the public and asking them to present identification. Since police don’t commonly have the power to ask for identification and the public don’t have a duty to show them any or even provide their name, what was the purpose of this, under which powers were these checks carried out, and who issued the order to officers to carry out these checks?

• Reference: 2019/20147
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/2549. You previously told me, in September 2018, that Metropolitan Police officers working on roads and traffic will temporarily be moved to strengthen London's Violent Crime Taskforce. When will the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) be restored to a full complement of staff?

• Reference: 2019/20146
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

What was the total budget of the Metropolitan Police Service Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) and the Traffic Criminal Justice Unit in 2019-20, and what is the expected budget for 2020-21? How many full-time equivalent officers were assigned to these units in each of these years?

• Reference: 2019/20145
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Could you provide details about the turnover of Commanders in each of the Metropolitan Police Service Borough Command Units (BCUs), since new dedicated posts were introduced: a) the average length of service for a Commander for each BCU, b) the total number of Commander changes for each of the BCUs that have occurred, and c) the total number of post-weeks for which Commander posts in BCUs have been unstaffed?

• Reference: 2019/20144
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The GLA website provides a table showing GLA Housing Starts on Site and Completions for each of your housing grant programmes (https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housin…). However, this table does not differentiate between homes offered at London Living Rent and those offered for Shared Ownership. Could this data be split in future, and could you now provide a version of this table to me that shows which of the starts and completions detailed in each year are homes for shared ownership?

• Reference: 2019/20143
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

On 21 June 2018, you launched a new portal to help Londoners find an affordable home, in place of the London Lettings Agency you promised in your manifesto. At Mayor’s Question Time on 22 March 2018, you said that this portal would promote: “affordable homes for Londoners to rent and buy.” This portal (as of 31 October 2019) offers more than 900 homes to buy, but only one home for rent. This single home to rent is available at discount market rent (i.e. 80 per cent of market rent) and this is a definition of ‘affordable’ that you said you...