• Reference: 2025/2128
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Why did you choose to intervene in the BPAS advertising case but not in other instances where TfL has banned adverts on political grounds, such as the recent Save the Children campaign against the two-child benefit limit?

• Reference: 2025/2127
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Do you think that TfL was wrong to ban the BPAS advert that recently appeared on the Tube?

• Reference: 2025/2126
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Given that TfL initially banned the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) adverts on the Tube, citing concerns about bringing the Metropolitan Police into disrepute, can you outline what specific factors led you to override this decision?

• Reference: 2025/2125
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Will you compensate Save the Children for any costs related to the design and other costs associated with the placement of their advert carrying the message: “By the time you get to work another child in the UK will be dragged into poverty”, which was rejected by TfL on political grounds?

• Reference: 2025/2124
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Can you provide a detailed summary of Transport for London’s official policy regarding what is and is not permitted within advertisements on the Tube, including what constitutes as “political advertising”?

• Reference: 2025/2123
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Can you provide a detailed breakdown of the process by which the placement of advertisements can be appealed by members of the public?

• Reference: 2025/2122
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Can you provide a breakdown by year of the number of advertisements that TfL has rejected between January 2020 and the present day? Can you also provide a further breakdown of how many of those were later overturned following direct intervention by yourself as the Mayor of London?

• Reference: 2025/2121
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Do you agree that the proposed change of use of Streatham Hill Theatre breaches your London Plan 2021, in particular policy HC5?

• Reference: 2025/2120
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

In 2020 you gave £15,000 to the Save Streatham Hill Theatre campaign, and in 2021 you said, “I’m supporting efforts to ensure the magnificent Streatham Hill Theatre is saved for future generations.” Now that a planning application for change of use of the building to a church is under consideration by Lambeth Council, do you still hold those views, and do you still support the use of the building as a theatre?

• Reference: 2025/2119
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

What is the Mayor’s long-term plan for London’s Black Cabs? Will he stand by them, or allow them to be driven out of business by unfair competition?