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GLA Transparency (3)

  • Reference: 2016/1898
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Will you commit to publish all the reports you commission as Mayor of London and ensure that all taxpayer-funded trips you and/or your officials undertake are reported to the London Assembly?

GLA Transparency (2)

  • Reference: 2016/1897
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Further to the revelation that your predecessor as Mayor of London undertook a 24-hour taxpayer-funded trip to San Francisco, along with various GLA and TfL officers, to raise private sponsorship for the Garden Bridge, will you investigate how many other taxpayer-funded trips were made by Boris Johnson and/or his officials and which were not declared in his official report to the Assembly?

GLA Transparency (1)

  • Reference: 2016/1896
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Further to the revelation that your predecessor as Mayor of London apparently suppressed the publication of a report linking air pollution and deprived schools, will you carry out a full audit of the GLA to establish how many other reports were commissioned, but not published, by Boris Johnson.

Modular Homes

  • Reference: 2016/1895
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
What is your assessment of the contribution that so-called modular homes - low-cost units constructed off-site using the latest building technologies and techniques - could make to increasing London's housing supply?

Berwick Street market

  • Reference: 2016/1894
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
How do you respond to Westminster City Council's decision to hand over control of Berwick Street market to a private operator? What if any plans do you have to support council-run street markets?

Smog alerts - TfL website

  • Reference: 2016/1893
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Will you examine whether air quality information and health advice could be provided on Transport for London's website during high pollution episodes in London?

Air quality near schools

  • Reference: 2016/1892
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Following your recent visit to Sir John Cass's Foundation Primary School in Aldgate - during which you witnessed first-hand the dangerous levels of air pollution around London's schools - will you look at strengthening the air quality provisions in the London Plan to actively discourage new schools, care homes or health clinics being located near existing air pollution hotspots?

TfL fares freeze

  • Reference: 2016/1891
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
How do you account for the different estimates of the cost of funding your TfL fares freeze over the next four years? Please include a full breakdown of the assumptions behind the £1.9 billion figure repor ted to the London Assembly by the Commissioner of Transport for London on 10 February 2016, and separately the £640 million figure stated in your most recent report to the Assembly.

Protecting London's Green Belt

  • Reference: 2016/1890
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
How seriously should Londoners take your pledge to oppose building on the Green Belt, given your subsequent assertion that you will consider all applications for development on the Green Belt with an open mind and may therefore support building on the Green Belt in some circumstances?

Disposal of GLA land and property

  • Reference: 2016/1889
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2016
Further to your commitment to "explore the full range of options available to maximise best value from publically owned land in London" (MQ2016/1381), how will you ensure that wider Mayoral priorities - such as the need for additional affordable homes - are taken into account when disposing of GLA owned land? Are you prepared to dispose of GLA land or property at less than market value to reflect the social value of particular uses (e.g. affordable housing, schools)?
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