• Reference: 2018/3062
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

As part of the East End Trades Guild (EETG) Affordable Workplace Manifesto proposal for a register of comparable evidence, the EETG has produced an app with Founders & Coders that could assist Transport for London (TfL) to be transparent with their business tenants. Both Hackney and Tower Hamlets Councils are currently providing data for this app to help small business tenants with their rent reviews, enabling them to gather the information they need in negotiations. Will you ask TfL to provide data for this tool?

• Reference: 2018/3061
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

What consultation process or engagement protocol does Transport for London (TfL) follow when deciding to increase rent to businesses that lease TfL-owned railway arches?

• 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?