• Reference: 2025/3983
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Thank you for your answer to my MQ 2025/3524 about the teaching of cycling control skills and safe road riding to adults and children. In the 2014 Cycle Safety Action Plan from Transport for London (TfL), it says that TfL wanted to improve cycling skills so that 75 per cent of training undertaken by primary school children by 2020 is at a minimum of Level 2 National Standards (Bikeability). Could you tell me: a) what percentage of children have received Level 2 training in the financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25, and b) do TfL still aim to train at...

• Reference: 2025/3982
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

In January 2025 Transport for London (TfL) published a press release saying: “In June, TfL launched a major new plan to further boost cycling numbers across the capital, including funding cycle training for more than 40,000 children.” Could you tell me: a) how many pupils per financial year and for which school year(s) does this funding cover, and b) does TfL have a target for the number of children who should receive cycle training each year?

• Reference: 2025/3981
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

In 2008-9, Transport for London (TfL) had a target that 50 per cent of Year 5 and 6 children would receive cycle training in London (MQ 2008/1657). Does the TfL Travel for Life programme include a similar target and, if not, what proportion of Year 5 and 6 children receive cycle training and what measures do you use to assess the success of funding for cycle training in schools?

• Reference: 2025/3980
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Following the changes to the W12 and W14 bus services in Wanstead, young people living on the Nightingale Estate have an unreliable hourly service (W14) that does not allow them to get to school on time while the alternative service (W12) is often full and can’t take them. Could you make the W14 service half-hourly instead of hourly to help young people get to school on time?

• Reference: 2025/3979
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Given the many recent changes to bus routes in the Wanstead area, has Transport for London (TfL) assessed the level of smart phone access among residents to enable people to access information about altered bus timetables and accurate journey updates?

• Reference: 2025/3978
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Following the changes to the W14 bus route in Wanstead, implemented on 7 September 2024, residents say there is inconsistent information available for people to understand the revised service. The new small signs containing the updated timetable on bus stands do not include the hail and ride route through the Nightingale Estate. The three large route maps at bus stops on Wanstead High Street have not been updated at all. When can residents expect these to be revised?

• Reference: 2025/3977
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

As well as extreme heat and cold, there is a growing risk of other extreme weather events posing a potentially fatal risk to Londoners sleeping rough – like intense rain and wind. In September, a man sleeping in a Blackpool park was killed after a tree fell on his tent during extreme winds. What steps have you taken to explore the impact of these weather events on London, and have you considered expanding the scope of SWEP to account for heavy rainfall or wind?

• Reference: 2025/3976
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

The long-standing Bashley Road Traveller site in Park Royal, within the area of the OPDC, has faced chronic underinvestment and is both polluted and overcrowded. I have heard from constituents living on the site, other local residents and advocacy groups that they are dismayed with how little the existing community has been meaningfully involved in local planning and wider decision-making, and how the Travellers’ needs are being overlooked. How are you working with the OPDC to improve the living conditions at Bashley Road for this long-standing community?

• Reference: 2025/3975
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs) have immense potential for a number of reasons, including for councils to bring unused properties into emergency use to house people sleeping rough. However, councils have reported they are hard to make use of. Where have EDMOs been used effectively around London and what efforts are you taking to scale up their use for emergency housing?

• Reference: 2025/3974
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

How many more desperately needed starts on social homes are you forecasting these housebuilding changes will have by, say, the end of 2027, compared to without these changes?