• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Hina Bokhari AM: Yes, just very quickly. I know that the family members of the first victims of the e-bike fatality have been asking for more public awareness, particularly on TfL, and making sure that there is an understanding of why there are public safety adverts on e-bikes and e-scooters and why that is. They have been pushing for this for quite a while now and I do hope that the Mayor is taking account of the family’s asks on this particular type of public awareness.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): Going back to your earlier answer to Assembly Member Clarke around using some of our own networks in terms of promotion is really quite good, but I think you are hitting on something around what is really missing. The LFB has come on incredibly well in terms of some of its messages and you are right to point out the most recent ones, but really what we want is some national messaging and also what we could do regionally. We need other partners to come on board and I just wondered whether it is not...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): I am going to come in on this one on the clock. I assume your reference to governments taking power away from planning authorities for political reasons would also relate to the Government calling-in the development for the Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets, which was unanimously rejected by local councils and that rejection was supported by yourself.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): Thank you very much. In terms of just listening to the previous question and answer session. On the planning process, it clearly is important and the changes that have been indicated by Government in terms of that but that is not the only answer in terms of the growth issue that you raised in your answer earlier on. There are some other issues and then essentially it comes back to re appraising some of the roles and approaches that we made, so in terms of provision of housing through the planning process system and the...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. The UK Prime Minister has this week announced a relaunch of UK India free trade talks. What impact will that have on London’s economy going forward?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Caroline Russell AM: Yes, I just wanted to very briefly come in, Mr Mayor, while we are on the subject of diaries to ask whether you would agree that in the interests of transparency that all elected Members in this Chamber should publish their diaries even if not legally obliged to?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Emma Best AM: Mr Mayor, let us be honest, the Government is not going to help you freeze TfL fares while they are busy freezing pensioners. You need to be honest about the economic situation that this Government inherited, which was far superior to what the previous Conservative Government and Liberal Democrat coalition inherited in 2010. You have seen it in the exchange with Assembly Member Garratt. We have seen how you behaved for the past eight years. Now you have a Labour Government, you have a choice to be a Labour Mayor who supports Londoners above the Government, and...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I have to say, I am delighted to see Assembly Member Wilson’s newfound commitment to affordable public transport. It is not something that I had noticed from Reform [UK] previously, but I have to say it does seem to be purely political point scoring. Having looked at Reform’s manifestos for both the general election this year and the mayoral election, there is absolutely nothing about London public transport. Nothing about the cost of fares and whether they wanted to keep them low. Nothing about concessions for older or younger Londoners, which the Mayor has...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, you already talked about the various steps you have been taking to support our police force, including additional funding. It is a matter of record that funding from City Hall to the MPS has more than doubled since 2016, when you became Mayor. It is also a matter of record that the MPS has suffered from a decade of a billion pounds austerity cuts under the previous Government. Has this long-term underfunding of our police force impacted officer confidence and undermined the MPS’s efforts to tackle crime in...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Hina Bokhari AM: Thank you. Just to go on from Kathleen Finnegan’s tragic situation with her family facing no support or contact from TfL in the aftermath of her death, and they had nothing until their local Member of Parliament (MP) Ed Davey [MP for Kingston and Surbiton] intervened and TfL agreed to meet her family four months after her passing. In September this year, you rightly apologised to Kathleen’s family for that lack of support. Since July, there has been two more fatalities linked to TfL. Do you know if TfL has offered the immediate support to those families?