• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): We will now return to the clock, and I will call on Assembly Member Prince with a question. Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Good morning. Commissioner, you mentioned about the Government not providing as much funding as we would like. In fact, Mr Mayor, you mentioned your disappointment in that. I might come to that a bit later. The thing today is the Piccadilly line. We see that the trains were delivered in the autumn, you could have started testing, and I notice that there was a delay. I do not know if...

• Reference: 2025/3226
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 03 July 2025

Len Duvall OBE AM (Chair): We now move into the question and answer session with, Transport for London (TfL). Joining us in the Chamber, we have Sir Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Chair of TfL, and Andy Lord, Commissioner of TfL. Welcome to the meeting. Over the next year, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversaries of both the London Assembly and TfL. TfL was officially formed on 3 July 2000. We are pleased to welcome our guest on this anniversary of that day. Since 2000, TfL has transformed how millions of Londoners and visitors to our city travel around...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Thank you very much. Well done. OK, let us move on to our last question of this session, Assembly Member Desai. Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, panel. My question is to you, Ms Hobart. It is about childhood vaccination programmes. I understand London is the worst performing region in England for the take-up of childhood vaccinations. We have seen before how vital vaccine can be, both during the pandemic and with the outbreaks of diseases, like polio, which we previously thought was a thing of the past. What specific factors are driving this...

• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Assembly Member Turrell is going to complete the impossible feat but let us give him a go. Thomas Turrell AM: Thank you, Chair. This is to Dr Hannbeck. Community pharmacies are obviously incredibly important for delivering better care, yet we hear about having support reduced, increased costs with National Insurance, increased travel costs and so forth. What does the pharmacy sector need to work, to be better supported?

• Question by: Bassam Mahfouz
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): Assembly Member Mahfouz. Bassam Mahfouz AM: Thank you, Chair. Vicky, I would like to ask my first question to you. A year ago, in my first Mayor’s Question Time (MQT), my first question to him was around the stark health inequalities we have within our boroughs and across London. I would use the example of two children being born at Hillingdon Hospital, going back to different locations within the borough and through no choice or fault of their own would have about six years’ worth of difference in terms of their life expectancy. We know that...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 05 June 2025

Len Duvall AM (Chair): OK. Now Assembly Member Clarke. Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to you, Vicky. The Government is investing £22 billion in the NHS over the next two years and has already made significant progress on waiting lists. Do you anticipate this investment to improve health inequalities in London?