• Reference: 2018/0112
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

I welcome your draft London Plan policy supporting a new network of free drinking water fountains. Will you commit to provide drinking water fountains at all major transport hubs, in or outside all London underground stations and at any other locations where you have direct influence?

• Reference: 2018/0111
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

When you introduced your Low Emission Bus Zone in Putney High Street in March 2017, you re-deployed a number of non-compliant buses operating on this route to other parts of London. Has the same happened for non-compliant buses in the Brixton Low Emission Bus Zone? If so, could you specify the number of buses, their euro standards and the routes they have been deployed to in London?

• Reference: 2018/0110
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Will you amend the 'Green Infrastructure and Natural Environment' section of your draft London Plan to support children's learning and development alongside its current vision for these assets to support "health and well-being"?

• Reference: 2018/0109
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

The City of Westminster is proposing to specify which principles and parts of its Revised Westminster City Plan should be taken into account in the preparation of Neighbourhood Plans. Will your new London Plan set policies or guidance for London boroughs for the preparation of Neighbourhood Plans? If not, why not?

• Reference: 2018/0108
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Do you have the legislative powers to propose the content of a new Clean Air Act for London?

• Reference: 2018/0107
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Are the energy policies in your draft London Plan sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the level of decarbonisation required to keep global temperature increase below two degrees Celsius, compared with pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Fifth Assessment of the Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5)?

• Reference: 2018/0106
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe includes an exposure concentration obligation and exposure reduction target for fine particles (PM2.5). Do you expect London to comply fully in 2020 and thereafter with all the particulate matter requirements in the Directive?

• Reference: 2018/0105
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Has your draft London Plan been tested against necessary outcomes, such as achieving the 169 targets underpinning the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?

• Reference: 2018/0104
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

In answer to my question 2017/2185 you said that "TfL is currently reviewing how it could have the necessary powers to enforce against taxis and private hire vehicles leaving their engines running while stationary." Could you provide an update on any progress on this from Transport for London (TfL)?

• Reference: 2018/0103
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Your draft Transport Strategy identifies engine idling as a targeted action for boroughs and Transport for London (TfL) to address local air pollution hotspots. To supplement this, will you ask the Government and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to issue reminders, during the vehicle excise duty renewal process, that engine idling is a traffic offence?