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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Jenny Jones AM: On this substantive issue, I am very concerned that you are actually releasing too much industrial land because the vacancy rate on industrial land has actually halved in the past 15 years and is now lower than retail vacancies. I am concerned that you are talking about surplus land when, actually, it is not surplus because small businesses still need to be near centres of population and they still need to be near town centres. I just wonder how much research you have done on this.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Darren Johnson AM: I hear what you say about Wormwood Scrubs and the issue of permeability. I do not at all doubt the need to improve permeability. However, surely, this type of thing can be done through sensible negotiations between boroughs. You do not need to include it in the MDC to ensure pathways and gates to public open space, do you?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Jenny Jones AM: I have not been convinced by these arguments about keeping Wormwood Scrubs open space inside the MDC. The council that currently has it in their borough is against it. The Friends of the Open Space are against it. It looks like a mayoral land grab. It does not look like a coherent plan. Sir Edward Lister (Mayor's Chief of Staff): If I may, it is a coherent plan, but they do not agree with it. Jenny Jones AM: Do you not think you should be interested in localism: that decisions for local people for local land should...

• Reference: 2014/2997
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

TfL recently confirmed that capacity will be boosted on this severely overcrowded route, beginning in the autumn. Please provide the date from which additional buses will be brought into service on this route. Please also provide an update on the longer-term solution of running a new Kidbrooke Village to North Greenwich route.

• Reference: 2014/2998
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Your response to MQ number 2014/2689 did not disclose a health and safety target temperature for London buses. Please confirm whether or not TfL has such a target and, if it does, please let me know what it is.

• Reference: 2014/2999
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

In your answer to my question 1381/2013 in May last year, you stated that you would be testing emissions of the New Bus for London on route 24. Now you have had a year to compare results, will you please publish them in full, including the average mpg for the bus, broken down by month?

• Reference: 2014/3000
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

The Transport Secretary recently announced that Crossrail could be extended to Hertfordshire. Please list any representations you have made to the Government on this or other extensions to Crossrail.

• Reference: 2014/3001
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Thamesmead is one of the largest areas of London to have no railway station of its own. Have you studied the potential for a future extension of Crossrail to the area?

• Reference: 2014/3002
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Some residents groups around Vauxhall want TfL to remove the gyratory at Vauxhall Cross but retain the bus station. Will TfL model the impact of this option on traffic levels, journey times, air and noise pollution levels, and the bus network, and release the results to the public?

• Reference: 2014/3003
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Of the 433 respondents to TfL's consultation on changes to be made at this gyratory, 220 supported the introduction of segregated cycle lanes and/or advance stop lines at the traffic lights for cyclists. Please give the reasons why the decision has been taken by TfL not to implement to the wishes of 52% of respondents.