• Reference: 2019/14561
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

This month, London South Bank University announced it would be starting the first degree-level apprenticeships in Chartered Town Planning from September. Given the shortage of planning expertise in the public sector, this is a great initiative, and would you consider using your Adult Education Budget responsibilities to support apprentice planners through the GLA and London Boroughs?

• Reference: 2019/14559
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Following a question I put during a recent Police and Crime Committee meeting to the Deputy Commissioner on the use of Twitter by the Met and their decisions to post images of knives, and again in a response to a letter on the same issue, the Met said they would look into whether there is evidence to support the posting of these images. The Violence Reduction Unit in Scotland have advocated against the posting of these images by police and have said it is counter-productive. Can you tell me whether the Met have investigated this following my letter and what...

• Reference: 2019/14558
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Does the Mayor support the posting of images of knives by the Met on social media?

• Reference: 2019/14557
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

On 12 th June 2019 TfL announced that they had, “awarded the contract to build the next generation of DLR trains. Entering service from 2023 the new walk through trains will have improved real-time travel info, air conditioning and mobile charging points”. However, on 17 November 2017 TfL announced the trains would enter service in 2022. Can you explain why they will be delayed for 1 year?

• Reference: 2019/14556
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Please provide details of all vehicle scrappage schemes you support, what their budgets are, how much of the budget has been spent to date and how many vehicles have been scrapped as a result?

• Reference: 2019/14555
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Can you provide an update as to when TfL expects to have estimated timescales and costs for repairing Hammersmith Bridge?

• Reference: 2019/14554
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

On 11th June Gary Sterritt, Head of Asset Investment at TfL, told London Travelwatch that the project to re-open the bridge to vehicular traffic could take 3 years. Is this a correct estimate of the time it is likely to take?

• Reference: 2019/14553
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Should Stephen Greenhalgh become Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham would you be inclined to allow him to impose a toll on Hammersmith Bridge?

• Reference: 2019/14552
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Stephen Greenhalgh has said, “If I were the directly-elected Mayor [of Hammersmith & Fulham], I would borrow the money to fix Hammersmith Bridge and set the borrowings against a road user charge for both buses and cars if TfL refused to stump up their fair share. The GLA Act allows both boroughs and the Mayor to levy road user charges.” Can you confirm that the GLA Act says Boroughs may introduce charging but will first need the agreement of the Mayor?

• Reference: 2019/14551
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Aside from step-free access, what work is TfL doing to improve accessibility to the transport network for all passengers?