• Reference: 2025/2187
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

West Midlands Police recently launched a new animal welfare scheme to help protect the police dogs who work for them. What schemes does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have in place to protect the welfare of its working dogs and other working animals?

• Reference: 2025/2186
• 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 conversations have you and MOPAC had with the Government and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) about the report and its recommendations?

• Reference: 2025/2185
• 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. Following the publication of this report what actions will you be taking to ensure that the recommendations in the report are followed?

• Reference: 2025/2184
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for my answer to question 2025/1727, where you told me that a 31,260 m2 increase in impermeable area was delivered as part of delivering the Silvertown Road Tunnel. I believe this is a larger area draining to SUDs than from any other scheme I have heard of. Could you provide me with more information on these drainage systems including: (a) the areas of newly impermeable land that have been created, and (b) details on how the drainage at Silvertown handles road run off, given that at least part of it is draining into the Thames?

• Reference: 2025/2183
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/1729, you told me that the updated London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (LAEI) of air pollution will work from a base year of 2022. How will this base year incorporate changes to traffic from investment delivered since 2022 such as the Silvertown Road Tunnel?

• Reference: 2025/2182
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The MIT Technology review have reviewed understanding of the energy usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), although data centres had been becoming more efficient, since 2017 the growth of AI has led to rapid increases in data centre energy usage. Your London Growth Plan champions AI as one of the sectors that growth in London could come from. What assessment does the GLA have of the impact of growing use of AI on carbon emissions in London, and how will you account for them in GLA climate budgeting?

• Reference: 2025/2181
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

The latest WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update for 2025–2029 has found that there is a high likelihood of warmer than average temperatures in the rest of this decade. What short term impacts on London’s environment and resilience can we expect from such sustained heat, and what further actions can be taken in response?

• 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...