• Reference: 2024/4271
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

The Water and London's Rivers Report recommended that the Mayor should 'consider how to use his wider planning powers to ensure councils develop riverside strategies and landowners take appropriate action to construct and manage higher walls.' What considerations and action have you taken to support councils building higher walls, and have you considered any changes to planning policy to support this recommendation?

• Reference: 2024/4270
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

The Water and London's Rivers Report recommended that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should work with the London Surface Water Strategic Group to 'establish a need-based fund to enable boroughs to access simple and long-term funding for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), while significantly increasing funding available for SuDS installation'. What conversations have you had with the Strategic Group to support them in this endeavour?

• Reference: 2024/4269
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

The Water and London’s Rivers report recommended that you should 'double the target in [your] Transport Strategy to 100,000 square meters a year of roads draining into sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) per year. Transport for London (TfL) should also double its targets for SuDS installation to deliver 10,000 square metres of roads draining into SuDS per year'. What conversations and actions have you undertaken with TfL to achieve this?

• Reference: 2024/4268
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

The London Assembly’s Environment Committee’s report ‘Water and London’s Rivers’ from March 2024 included recommendations that the Mayor 'should significantly scale up funding and installation of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), and scale up the resources available for local boroughs and other landowners to increase their own SuDS installation'. Have you increased funding for SuDS?

• Reference: 2024/4267
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

How much funding has been provided the zero emission bus fleet since 2016 by year?

• Reference: 2024/4266
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

How many zero emission buses have been introduced to the network since 2016 by year?

• Reference: 2024/4265
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

What is the target for 2024-25 on zero emission buses entering the TfL network?

• Reference: 2024/4264
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

Further to MQ2024/2569, what progress have you made on a 100% zero emission bus fleet and what more can be done?

• Reference: 2024/4263
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

In your 2024 manifesto, there was a commitment to a new programme of 'approaching partners to fund heat pumps, install solar panels and retrofit school buildings to make them more energy efficient'. What discussions have taken place since the election and what progress have you made?

• Reference: 2024/4262
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

What is the average length of employment for green jobs or placements provided under Mayoral schemes?