• Reference: 2024/3194
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

According to taxi drivers’ representative bodies, a major factor behind the decline in the number of licensed black cabs is the high cost of new vehicles, with only one model approved for use in London. At the Plenary Assembly meeting in September 2024, the Mayor blamed “market forces” for this limited choice, rather than the market distortion caused by TfL’s insistence on a 25ft turning circle requirement. Other models are available for use in other cities but this requirement means they are non-compliant in London. Given that taxis are the only 100% wheelchair accessible mode of transport, could the Mayor...

• Reference: 2024/3193
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Ahead of the proposed pedestrianisation, how will you ensure that Oxford Street remains accessible to London’s disabled community?

• Reference: 2024/3192
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Can you provide an update on the proposed toll exemptions for the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels?

• Reference: 2024/3191
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Can you please provide a year-by-year breakdown, since 2008, of: The number of police stop and searches conducted by the Met The number of weapons retrieved from those searches The volume of drugs retrieved from those searches The percentage of searches which resulted in a ‘police outcome’?

• Reference: 2024/3190
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Ruislip Lido in the Borough of Hillingdon is a beauty spot that attracts large crowds in the summer from all over London and beyond. Parking spaces are limited to 300 and yet the H13 and 331 buses run only limited services on Sundays and Bank Holidays. This inevitably becomes overcrowded, stimulating greater car use and local problems with parking and traffic. What action can TfL take to improve the availability of bus transport serving the Lido?

• Reference: 2024/3189
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Following Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist’s recent acknowledgement that the Met Police ‘didn’t get everything right’ regarding policing of major protests, what changes would you like to see to the Police’s approach when dealing with overt expressions of antisemitism? How does this compare with how the Met Police deals with people expressing the perfectly legitimate view that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, which is both a statement of fact and UK Government policy?

• Reference: 2024/3188
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Manchester United and Ineos owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, recently said London is ‘not safe’ anymore. How do you feel about our capital city being described like this?

• Reference: 2024/3187
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Has your Office made any assessment of the impact of ultra fine particles from aircraft on the health of Londoners?

• Reference: 2024/3186
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Do you believe that the number of flights currently arriving at and departing from Heathrow is acceptable and would you oppose any attempt to increase the number of flights at the airport?

• Reference: 2024/3185
• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Do you support the continued passage of night flights into Heathrow between 4:30 am and 6 am?