• Reference: 2025/2180
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Defra is developing a statistic for access to green space in England. It has found that definitions of access and green space have a large impact on the results. Londoners experience a large number of restrictions to their access to large areas of green space due to land ownership and urban development. As part of your new London Plan what statistics are you using to describe Londoners’ access to green space, and what level of increase in access do you think is likely?

• Reference: 2025/2179
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Defra is developing a statistic for access to ‘blue space’ in England. On 29 May 2025 it published key messages that detailed that while 86 per cent of households in England had access to a blue space within a 15 minute walk, this falls to 28 per cent when limiting the definition to substantial blue spaces only. As part of your work on healthy and swimmable rivers and the new London Plan, what statistics are you using on Londoners’ access to blue space, and what level of increase in access do you think is likely?

• Reference: 2025/2178
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In your answer to my question 2025/1724 on Thames Water bills, you told me that you had recently met again with Thames Water and Ofwat to make the case for Londoners. You said the Independent Water Commission, led by Sir John Cunliffe ‘must identify and recommend a simpler and more transparent approach to the economic regulation of water companies’. Do you support a move to greater transparency from water companies like Thames Water and Affinity Water so that, similarly to Transport for London (TfL), they have full minutes and papers available from their board meetings, and public broadcast of some...

• Reference: 2025/2177
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In your answer to my question 2025/1724 on Thames Water bills, you told me that you had recently met again with Thames Water and Ofwat to make the case for Londoners. Could you further outline your concerns about the current problems in London with leaks, over-abstraction, flooding, sewer overflows, and protecting the health of our waterways?

• Reference: 2025/2176
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The London Surface Water Strategy proposes creating surface water catchment partnerships to improve London’s resilience to surface water flooding. How will these partnerships interact with your other work on making London rivers healthy and swimmable, and will your work provide a strategy and delivery plan that sits alongside or above this strategy?

• Reference: 2025/2175
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Given that GLA work informed by your mandates seems to have already begun, will you now publish a decision that publicly confirms the details of the mandates, including delivery plans?

• Reference: 2025/2174
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Despite the Baroness Casey Review, many Londoners still experience the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as institutionally racist, sexist, homophobic and disablist. Now nearly two years on from this review, could you confirm the independent follow-up progress review will be as rigorous as the initial Casey Review and that it will begin by the end of 2025?

• Reference: 2025/2173
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In May 2025 the London Drugs Commission published its report, The Cannabis Conundrum: a way forward for London. What difference will the publication of this report make to people living in London today?

• Reference: 2025/2172
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Could you provide an update on your plans to protect and restore nature in London?

• Reference: 2025/2171
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Can you tell me what further work you are doing to address the problems of traffic and congestion, outlined in the Addendum to the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS): Proposal 24.1, to achieve London’s 2030 net zero target?