• Reference: 2018/3060
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Are you confident that the way Transport for London (TfL) manages its railway arches provides protection for the interests of micro businesses?

• Reference: 2018/3059
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

A constituent from Hammersmith and Fulham has contacted me about long established small businesses in danger of closing due to significant Transport for London (TfL) rent increases. On what factors does TfL base its decisions to increase rent for railway arches?

• Reference: 2018/3058
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

How many railway arches owned by Transport for London (TfL), which can be rented out to businesses, are currently empty? Could you provide details of the total number of empty TfL railway arches at the end of each of the years 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18?

• Reference: 2018/3057
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

The Government has announced the ending of the Feed-In Tariff in April 2019. How will this affect the delivery of your Solar Action Plan?

• Reference: 2018/3056
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Other than divestment, does the London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) have climate change policies and a decarbonisation target for its investment portfolio? If not, will you ask the LPFA to review its policies and put in place a decarbonisation target that takes account of the publication in October 2018 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Global Warming of 1.5C?

• Reference: 2018/3055
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/0103. You said that your officers were awaiting feedback on the proposal for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to issue reminders during the Vehicle Excise Duty renewal process that engine idling is a traffic offence. Have your officers now received any feedback and what was it?

• Reference: 2018/3054
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/2530. Regarding the unexpected deterioration of air quality recorded at the monitoring site on Brixton Road, which you commissioned Kings College to investigate, are you factoring this into the modelling of your forthcoming Central London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and future ULEZ phases?

• Reference: 2018/3053
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

The T-Charge was introduced on 23 October 2017. What has been the effect on both emissions and concentrations of the main pollutants?

• Reference: 2018/3052
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

Are you aware that at, the Barnet Council meeting on 30 October 2018, ( https://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/documents/b31273/Questions%20to%20the%20…) the leader of the Council was asked: "Will the Leader guarantee that a separate food waste collection will be restored in Barnet?" and, in answer, he said "No." What is your response to this, given your policy requiring all London waste collection authorities to provide such a service to all kerbside properties, as a minimum, by 2020 at the latest?

• Reference: 2018/3051
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health, published in June 2017, recommends: "minimising the exposure of vulnerable groups to air pollution by not siting buildings (such as schools, nurseries and care homes) in areas where pollution levels will be high." What measures in your new London Plan will protect all these vulnerable groups?