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Support for electric black cabs

  • Reference: 2025/1776
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What more can you do to: a) support the second-hand market for electric black cabs, b) insist that London Electrical Vehicle Company (LEVC) supports black cabs after their warranty has expired, and c) expand rapid charging and rest facilities for black cabs and other taxis?

Wraparound advertising screens at Elizabeth Line stations

  • Reference: 2025/1781
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Could you tell me: a) if any preliminary Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) has been carried out on the impact on neuro diverse people travelling through stations with wraparound digital advertising screens and, b) what consultation will be carried out with Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DPPOs) before any agreement is considered between Transport for London (TfL) and their advertising partner, Global, to install wraparound digital advertising screens at Elizabeth Line stations?

London’s Growth Plan and active travel (2)

  • Reference: 2025/1795
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/0883. Your London Growth Plan promotes both polycentric growth and walkable ‘innovation districts’, yet it fails to include any actions to deliver walkable districts other than Oxford Street. How will this transport aspiration in the London Growth Plan be delivered?

Local Implementation Plan funding to Harrow

  • Reference: 2025/1650
  • Question by: Krupesh Hirani
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
How much Local Implementation Plan funding has been provided to the London Borough of Harrow in each of the last five financial years?

Disabled access to hail-and-ride bus routes

  • Reference: 2025/1784
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
A constituent has contacted me to find out how many hail-and-ride bus routes, such as the R5 and R10, are running in London and whether they are all fully accessible for disabled people?

Integrated Care Systems and the English Devolution Bill (1)

  • Reference: 2025/1659
  • Question by: Krupesh Hirani
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
There is an expectation that Mayors of strategic authorities will have significant roles at the ICS level and sit as members of integrated care partnerships. How will you be engaging with London’s five ICSs?

Ensuring Alignment of the London Plan with Regional Strategies

  • Reference: 2025/1693
  • Question by: James Small-Edwards
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
How will the Mayor ensure that the London Plan remains aligned and influential alongside the new statutory framework of spatial development strategies across combined authorities and county areas?

Facilities for non-office-based workers

  • Reference: 2025/1777
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What consideration have you given to repurposing car parks in London to create Welfare Hubs for non-office-based workers, eg couriers, postal workers and taxi, PHV and bus drivers, which provide fast charging for electric taxis, toilets and rest areas?

Protection of London’s ancient trees

  • Reference: 2025/1735
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
If it is now possible to fell a tree as significant as the Whitewebbs Oak and have no legal repercussions, are you satisfied that there is enough funding and support available to councils to monitor and protect London’s ancient trees?

Current status of Safer Schools Officers

  • Reference: 2025/1740
  • Question by: Zoë Garbett
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
It has been reported in the news recently that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will be transferring Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) into neighbourhood teams. Could you tell me: a) what role police will now play around schools, b) share with me any job or role descriptions for children and young people focused roles that might be replacing SSOs, such as Dedicated Ward officers (DWO) with a children and young people focus, and c) if the points system around SSOs mentioned in publicly available Hackney council papers from 11 September 2024 is now being used London-wide, and if not what the...
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