• Reference: 2024/2526
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

You have previously stated you do not have the legal ability to blacklist developers who are not complying with remediation orders related to building safety such as cladding from GLA funded projects. Will you ask the new Government to grant you these powers?

• Reference: 2024/2525
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Please outline timescale targets for expanding mobile data coverage across each of the Tube lines.

• Reference: 2024/2524
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Please outline any recent conversations you have had with the Government and Network Rail over safety concerns regarding Euston station including overcrowding.

• Reference: 2024/2523
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

How confident are you that you can work with the current Minister of Rail (Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE) given the recent allegations he had an engineer sacked for speaking to The Independent about safety concerns over Euston Station?

• Reference: 2024/2522
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Can you elaborate on what changes to the Knowledge Test are planned? Once these have been introduced, does City Hall plan to promote the taxi trade (and the revised Knowledge test) to prospective applicants who are currently put off by the 4 years it takes to qualify as a black cab driver in London?

• Reference: 2024/2521
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Is the issue of taxi supply, and making the trade more accessible as a career, being considered as part of the new Taxi & Private Hire Action Plan?

• Reference: 2024/2520
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Would you like to see more fully-electric taxi options available on London's roads? And do you accept that until there are more vehicle options available the vast majority of London’s taxi fleet will be hybrid taxis, not full electric vehicles?

• Reference: 2024/2519
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

A new black cab vehicle costs c. £100K on finance. Do you think this is acceptable? Is any consideration being given to changing TfL's Conditions of Fitness to encourage more manufacturers to enter London's taxi market?

• Reference: 2024/2518
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Can you provide an outline of your position on the 40-year low of the number of licensed taxis in London? Are there plans to reverse this trend as part of your new Taxi & Private Hire Action Plan?

• Reference: 2024/2517
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 12 September 2024

Can you provide details of the location of the four security training sessions announced in a press release on 14th August 2024, and were/are these open to the public?