• Reference: 2025/0763
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What work have bodies within the GLA Group undertaken about considering the implementation of guidance on a maximum safe working temperature?

• Reference: 2025/0762
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What work have bodies within the GLA Group undertaken to adapt their operations to increasing heat, including advice to staff and customers, provision of shade and provision of water?

• Reference: 2025/0761
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Does Transport for London (TfL) have an assessment of locations where drainage risks being overwhelmed by heavy rain on a) highways, b) footpaths, c) cycleways, and d) railways?

• Reference: 2025/0760
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What work is Transport for London (TfL) undertaking to increase the capacity and reliability of drainage systems to adapt to increasingly heavy and short-duration rainfall in a warmer climate?

• Reference: 2025/0759
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Since your original targets for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) were set, Paris has set a target to disconnect five per cent of drainage area from SuDs to sewers. Can you express London’s delivery of SuDS to date as a per cent of the drainage area for a) highways and b) impermeable land in London?

• Reference: 2025/0758
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

In your Environment Strategy, you set a goal for 200 hectares of land to drain into sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) by 2030. Since then, this target was set, Thames Water has set a goal in its Drainwater Management Plan for 7,598 hectares (75.95 sq km) of impermeable land to drain into SuDs by 2050. What is your progress on this smaller goal, and how achievable is the 2050 goal that Thames Water has set on current levels of investment?

• Reference: 2025/0757
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Further to your answer to MQ 2022/2558, what monitoring is Transport for London (TfL) now conducting into Tube dust beyond the Tube network to examine the relative exposures on newer and more modern underground railways, such as the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and the central section of the Elizabeth line?

• Reference: 2025/0756
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What measures have you taken in the development and drafting of the London Growth Plan to ensure that your net-zero goal of 2030 and the protection of the environment are at the heart of the plan?

• Reference: 2025/0755
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

How is your work to improve London’s environment also tackling public health issues?

• Reference: 2025/0754
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

In response to question 2024/3628, you say you support urging the music industry to introduce a voluntary contribution on arena and stadium tickets to support and protect the grassroots music sector, including artists, promoters, festivals and venues. How successful do you think such a voluntary scheme would be and wouldn’t a non-voluntary contribution be better at protecting London’s grassroots music sector?