• Reference: 2018/1754
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

In answer to my question 2018/1463 you told me that in reference to the London Environment Strategy: "Barnet did not respond during the public consultation on the issue of food waste collection, which was included in the waste policies and proposals" and that "waste authorities have a duty under that Act to undertake their waste responsibilities in such a way as to be in general conformity with the strategy." According to an article in Material Recycling World on 3 July 2018, the leader of Barnet Council said that you: "will not be able to use executive powers to make the...

• Reference: 2018/1753
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

The Government document, A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment, published in January 2018, says it will be "working to a target of eliminating avoidable plastic waste by end of 2042." Given the urgency and scale of the problem highlighted in Blue Planet 2, and your policies to cut plastic waste, do you agree that this target is inadequate and needs to be brought forward by at least a decade?

• Reference: 2018/1752
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

In 2017 the air pollution monitoring site on Brixton Road recorded 75 hours of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations above the 200 ug/m3 levels when the legal limit is 18 hours a year. Even with the implementation of your clean bus zone, to date (6 July 2018) 67 hourly exceedances have been recorded this year and, based on this, pollution at the site is on course to be significantly worse than 2017. Could you offer an explanation for this deterioration? What immediate steps will you take to rectify this unacceptable situation?

• Reference: 2018/1751
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

Within three years of operation as a fully licensed energy supply company, Robin Hood Energy has acquired 115,000 customers and, according to company accounts, made an operating surplus of £202,000. In light of this success story, will you reconsider your decision to tender for the delivery of a white label energy supply company, and instead opt for the fully licensed supply company that your own feasibility report showed would supply a wider range of benefits?

• Reference: 2018/1750
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

The chief executive of London City Airport has said that he will be considering potential options to lift the airport's current cap of 6.5 million passengers and 111,000 flights a year. Given the health and environmental impacts on Londoners, will you make it clear that you oppose any further expansion of flights at City Airport?

• Reference: 2018/1749
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

A third runway at Heathrow Airport would worsen Londoners' exposure to noise. An additional 300,000 people would be affected. To mitigate the impact on communities, the Secretary of State for Transport is proposing a noise insulation compensation scheme to help fund replacement windows, secondary glazing and other measures in homes, schools and community buildings. However, during warmer periods and heatwaves when Londoners particularly need the option of opening windows for their comfort and wellbeing, they face exposure to aircraft noise disturbance and being woken up by night or early morning flights. Will you examine the health impacts of this, particularly...

• Reference: 2018/1748
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

A third runway at Heathrow Airport would worsen Londoners' exposure to noise. An additional 300,000 people would be affected. To mitigate the impact on communities, the Secretary of State for Transport is proposing a noise insulation compensation scheme to help fund replacement windows, secondary glazing and other measures in homes, schools and community buildings. Do you agree that it will do nothing to compensate Londoners for the aircraft noise experienced outdoors in the street or a garden and lead to a deterioration of peoples' health and quality of life?

• Reference: 2018/1745
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

Please provide the current financial year list of potholes and road repairs Transport for London has assessed need to be fixed and the timescales for doing so. Please also provide the same list for the previous financial year.

• Reference: 2018/1744
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

Following the announcement on the 21 February 2018 that all 'non-essential' road improvements have been paused for two years, how is Transport for London (TfL) responding to calls for potholes to be repaired on TfL routes, especially in relation to potholes which could hinder safe cycling?

• Reference: 2018/1743
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 July 2018

In answer to Question 2017/4904 about unstaffed London Underground stations, you stated that by Spring 2018 Transport for London (TfL)will seek to publish information online about the incidents of unstaffed London Underground stations. Why has this information not yet been published by TfL?