• Reference: 2017/0223
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

Archway is an important transport hub for residents of Barnet and Camden and other neighbouring boroughs who will have to put up with worse traffic and poorer bus connectivity if TfL's scheme goes ahead. Of the large total of 818 responses, a massive 75% were against TfL's scheme. Yet TfL are ignoring residents' and commuters' objections. What was the point in consulting when TfL are not prepared to listen to an answer they didn't want to hear; and will you now review the scheme in light of the overwhelming opposition to it?

• Reference: 2017/0222
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

The USA embassy has consistently refused to pay its congestion charge bill. What is the total now due; and as there is a new President in the USA will you take the opportunity to raise this matter with him, and send him the bill?

• Reference: 2017/0221
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

What progress is being made with the scheme to improve Mill Hill Circus?

• Reference: 2017/0220
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

You recently announced an expansion of the step free programme for tube stations. Are Mill Hill East and West Hampstead Jubilee line under consideration for this programme?

• Reference: 2017/0219
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

As the House of Lords Select Committee on the HS2 Bill has raised no objection to HS2's plan to base their lorry park in the Regents Park outer circle it can now be assumed that this will go ahead. In the circumstances, will you ask TfL to review their proposals for CS11 and the implications of the fact that hundreds of HS2 lorries daily are likely to be using Finchley Road and the routes into and through the park roads?

• Reference: 2017/0218
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

The House of Lords Select Committee on the HS2 Bill recommended removing clause 48(1)-(3) from the HS2 Bill, which would give HS2 Ltd unnecessary powers to compulsory purchase land for regeneration purposes. Camden Council petitioned on this route-wide issue on behalf of 10 other local authorities, and this will also benefit local authorities in Phase 2 of the scheme, announced last month. Will you lobby the Government to ensure that this recommendation is accepted?

• Reference: 2017/0217
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

The House of Lords Select Committee on the HS2 Bill has said: "We agree with these petitioners as to their main aspiration" (i.e. the comprehensive development of the station). "The new station, which will eventually emerge after so much expenditure of public funds and so much misery endured by Camden residents, ought to be a world-classrailway station, and the splitting of its design into two different operations seems unlikely to assist in the achievement of that objective. We earnestly urge the Secretary of State to ensure that funding is provided for the second planning stage to proceed as soon as...

• Reference: 2017/0216
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

The House of Lords Select Committee on the HS2 Bill has recommended improved compensation arrangements, in recognition that Camden is a special case: "We make a strong recommendation, therefore, that those households in Camden, and any in Hillingdon and Birmingham, that are so threatened by construction noise as to be entitled to noise insulation, should be treated in the same way as if they were within 120m of the line of route in an area where the Rural Support Zone (RSZ) applies." ([215]). In particular that (i) Owner-occupiers should be entitled to participate in the Voluntary Purchase Scheme. This is...

• Reference: 2017/0215
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

Further to Question No: 2016/4854: Further to Question No: 2016/4380: In August you wrote a very welcome letter to the Secretary of State for Transport about the impact of HS2 on Euston setting out your concerns on behalf of residents after you met with local representatives. Details of this appeared in the Evening Standard last month. Have you received a reply yet; and if so, will you publish it; and if not what are you doing to press for a reply? Your response being: The Secretary of State responded to my letter on 10 October, stating that he shares my...

• Reference: 2017/0214
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

Do you think it was appropriate for HS2 to engage in large scale noisy demolition work in Euston on Christmas Day?