• Reference: 2025/0819
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Please can you provide an estimate of the cost of the emergency services’ response to the security incident on the Parliamentary Estate on Saturday 8th March 2025, including a breakdown by each service that you are responsible for. Which boroughs were these resources deployed from, and what other policing operations or activities were postponed, delayed, cancelled or downgraded as a result of being diverted to respond to this incident?

• Reference: 2025/0818
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In response to Mayor’s question 2025/0379, you said Security Enforcement officers have a range of powers which enable them to ‘respond positively’ to Tube fare evaders. Can you please explain what ‘responding positively’ means and can you also outline what these powers exclude these officers from doing?

• Reference: 2025/0817
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In response to Mayor’s question 2025/0374, you said ‘technical constraints’ mean a railcard has to be added to someone’s Oyster Card in a station, rather than online. Please can you outline what those technical constraints are and what is being done to work around them?

• Reference: 2025/0816
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In recent months, there has been an increase in reports of graffiti on the Underground Tube system. This sets a terrible example to tourists and young children and is something that needs to be quickly gotten a grip of. What is being done to a.) clean graffiti once it’s been plastered on Tubes; and b.) to stop it happening in the first place?

• Reference: 2025/0815
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

According to The Telegraph, extra-high ticket barriers that use artificial intelligence, created by technology company Cubic, could crack down on as many as 100,000 fare dodgers a day. Given you lost at least £130 million to fare evasion last year, will you look at introducing this or similar technology to get a grip on this crisis which frustrates Londoners deeply?

• Reference: 2025/0814
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

A contract for taxi services for TfL staff with GT GetTaxi (UK) Limited is due to expire on 3rd April. The value of this contract is £16m. What is the justification for this level of expenditure and what arrangements are you planning to put in place after 3rd April?

• Reference: 2025/0813
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In the Consolidated Climate Budget, you show £300k for a loan fund for small businesses in Park Royal to expand their existing businesses and take on new staff. How can you justify this use of public money to fund private sector businesses and what measures are you taking to ensure that loans can be repaid?

• Reference: 2025/0812
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In your answer to Question No. 2025/0370, you claim that the £33,000 is for the development of an implementation plan and sustainability dashboard. However, your Consolidated Climate Budget speaks specifically of a “charter” which “serves as a visionary document” with no mention of a dashboard. In light of this inconsistency, please could you supply my office with evidence of plans for the Sustainability Implementation Dashboard?

• Reference: 2025/0811
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In the Consolidated Climate Budget, you show £27.6m over three years to fund further education providers to deliver training for skills development “for capital projects to retrofit buildings and build new, greener and more energy efficient buildings.” How can you justify the use of public money to fund private sector training in the construction industry?

• Reference: 2025/0810
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In the Consolidated Climate Budget, you show £66k being spent on Climate Change Adaptation strategy for the MPS. Please could you justify this spend on external consultants given the likely net reduction in police officers?