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• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Tony Devenish AM: In my five years on the Assembly, of all the Mayoral bodies it comes up time and time again that LLDC in terms of community engagement is not terribly responsive. “Opaque” is another word I have been asked to use, “tick box consultation”. I wanted to read back to you a letter that one of your team had written to a community group only very recently where you had to hold your hands up because you had not uploaded an awful lot of documents related to the application on the online planning register. You did not apologise...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor Copley. On what date will you have finished all 116,000 affordable homes that you were meant to have started five years ago?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Tony Devenish AM: My question is for the Commissioner of TfL, Andy Byford. In the last year, bus services have been a major component of keeping us safe while being transported in London. Do you have any particular changes in mind? What worked well and what did not work well during the crisis?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Minister, for all the hard work you are doing. I would like to pay tribute to my two London boroughs, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and Westminster, for all the work they have been doing with you. My question is quite blunt, Minister. Will you work with the Mayor and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to make sure we prosecute the malicious anti-vaxxer propaganda that we are facing here in London?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to Dr Tom. Firstly, Dr Tom, thank you so much for all you have done. You have always been very responsive to my constituents on all health issues and it is really appreciated. I think now what we have heard this morning is the NHS is doing a fantastic job but we need all the team to communicate, communicate, communicate and communicate some more. I am amazed that the Mayor is not here this morning because he was always banging on about being a son of a bus driver until we...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning. My question is to John Barradell. John, good morning and thank you for all the work you and all your borough teams have been doing with NHS partners, and the rest. It has been incredibly heart-warming to see the amount of work that has been undertaken by everybody across our public services. My question is not directly to do with the public services per se or indeed to do with the medical and economic emergency. I have seen, certainly since last Monday’s lockdown announcement, that morale amongst some Londoners seems to have...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Chair, I will be very succinct. Two questions, and I will put them to Jace Tyrrell, and others can come in when they get called by other Assembly Members. Jace, could you please just give us an update on where we are on business rates and what we need the Government to do? That is my first question. Secondly, would you agree with me the biggest concern is that the lost generation are the teens and early 20s that are not already in work? Let’s not always say, “What can Government do?” What can business do to...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Tony Devenish AM: I have two questions, the first one for Mr Bellamy. Good morning, David. Yesterday TfL put out a press release where it boasted that there is an extra 19,000m 2 of space in central London for cycling and walking that has been created over the last few weeks, ie I presume there is 19,000m 2 roughly less road space. I am glad you mentioned the point of Saturday and the good news that the pubs are opening on Saturday. Do you worry, as some people have said to me, that Saturday will be a tipping point, where...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Mr Mayor, going back to Assembly Member Arnold’s question about tin-eared anti-customer service culture, in many ways the best question I have heard in the entire four years from this Assembly, I have a suggestion for you. Will you consider involving the retiring Deputy Chair and Chair of the Assembly in the recruitment of Mr Brown’s successor? We have to sort out customer services. It is a shocking set of customer services. TfL does many things well, but customer service is not one of them.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): I would not normally take a follow‑up question from the Member who has put that question because this is not Mayor’s update but because of the publicity and the concerns that I know of and a number of Members have raised about Hammersmith Bridge, can I ask Assembly Member Devenish if he has anything briefly to say in response to the Mayor? Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. As you know, it has been shut for 11 months, Hammersmith Bridge. We still do not have a direct plan of when we are going to...