• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I am going back to grooming gangs. I would have continued last time, but there were children in the audience from Tower Hamlets and I was about to mention something there and I thought that was inappropriate. My question is, given the historic child protection failings in boroughs like Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, where the most heinous and despicable crimes took place over many years, do you think that a grooming gang would have been identified by the authorities in those areas if one was operating and sexually abusing young girls?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Léonie Cooper AM: Mr Mayor, I am actually quite enjoying your humour there, but I just wondered if you might agree with me that it is a bit hypocritical for the Conservatives in this Chamber, who are the only Group who have ever had somebody removed from the Chamber for being rude to another Assembly Member, there is also one of their number who Emma Best AM: No, Assembly Member Baker had to leave Len Duvall AM (Chair): Stop. Léonie Cooper AM: I am sorry. Do you mind? Emma Best AM: She was wrong and so I was pointing out...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. When a politician raises an area of TfL performance they would like to see improved, do you think the correct response is to respond with name calling and disparaging remarks, and would you like to take this opportunity to apologise to Robert Jenrick for taking that path on this occasion? It is just a simple question of whether you would like to apologise. To be honest, I have three boys. If I asked them if they needed to apologise and they started reading a book to find out, I would send them to their room...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. Fare evasion is an issue that is genuinely raised with me on a regular basis when I am out and about, and so I do welcome Assembly Members’ concerns, particularly around making sure that that money is going to our public transport network. However, I have to say I am surprised, given Assembly Member Wilson’s recent attacks on funding public transport improvements under the guise of criticism of net zero budgets, huge amounts of what is called your net zero budgets are public transport improvements. They are new buses. They are new station improvements...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Keith Prince AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I should not bother going through your notes, I am doing one left of the field for you. Sebastian, who is in the audience with Upminster Junior School today, he has asked me to ask you a question in relation to Assembly Member Wilson’s question on improving TfL’s performance, to get the link. Would increasing transport links between Rainham and Upminster, such as providing a Superloop link, improve TfL’s performance?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Neil Garratt AM: Thank you, Chair. The question was about traffic reduction and your net-zero 2030 target. I am sure you are familiar with this document, you are the author, London’s Net-Zero 2030 Plan, which you are still committed to in your manifesto and repeatedly since. Therefore, I assume you are also aware that in there it says that the only way to achieve the traffic reduction that your net-zero 2030 target requires is to introduce a pay-per-mile scheme. You also say that you will not introduce a pay-per-mile scheme. One of those statements cannot be true. Which one of...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I really welcome Assembly Member Roberts raising this really important issue today. I know that every single Assembly Member around this room will have had similarly distressing stories about drivers being really personally impacted. I want to talk about TfL’s dealing with it because I have no doubt your commitment to resolving this issue, but I and others have been raising this with TfL as a systemic issue for months, as have drivers’ representative organisations, and frankly I was fobbed off. I was told it was under control. There was a refusal to give...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, I was confused in an exchange with Assembly Member Small-Edwards. You seem to be suggesting the £39 billion Affordable Homes Programme, you knew the proportion of that that was coming to London because you were saying it was a good deal for us. Could you confirm the proportion of that £39 billion that is coming to London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Do you think London could do with a better advocate for London’s interests when talking to Government?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. On the SR and returning to the transport implications, I would like to ask about what you think the long-term implications for the SR for TfL is and particularly we are still awaiting the publication of the specific funding letter, obviously we know the overall amounts, but are you able to confirm some of the capital renewal projects that are well delayed that we will now be able to deliver from funding from the Government?