• Reference: 2025/0822
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

You often talk of the money that has been saved by moving City Hall’s location, please can you outline these savings?

• Reference: 2025/0821
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

In your press release at the end of February, it said “nothing is more important to the Mayor than keeping Londoners safe”. Given this, why has stop and search, a vital tool in taking knives off the streets, halved in the last three years?

• Reference: 2025/0820
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

What is the annual cost of City Hall’s broadcasting contract with BowTie, which streams City Hall’s meetings?

• 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?