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• Reference: 2015/2239
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Will you lobby government for greater powers to be devolved to the GLA to tackle air pollution caused by vessels on the Thames and the canal network?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Thank you. I just wanted to return to the procurement of these electric buses. Am I right in thinking that the first ones that arrive will be entirely manufactured in China?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: I assume that you would accept that for all the businesses and people employed in the area of green technology and green industries, 80% of what they do and what holds them back is exactly the same as for businesses that are not involved in those technologies. Therefore, your work on small business, science and technology and all those areas of emphasis would be equally as applicable to green technology, Jenny ‑‑ Jenny Jones AM: Yes. Kit Malthouse AM MP: ‑‑ as they are to other things. Harvey McGrath (Deputy Chair, London Enterprise Panel): Indeed. Kit...

• Reference: 2015/1754
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

On the 12th May this vessel cruised up the Thames and moored at Greenwich. What assurances were sought from the operators of the liner on its emissions and their effect on air quality before it sailed into Central London?

• Reference: 2015/1755
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Can you confirm if this vessel is fitted with equipment to connect to shore-side power to reduce its emissions?

• Reference: 2015/1756
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

During the visit, local residents reported seeing two tugs accompanying the liner, both of which were producing significant quantities of particulate matter. Is it not time to tighten the regulations regarding emissions standards for visiting vessels and the tugs that bring them into London?

• Reference: 2015/1757
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

A total of 22 trees, 3 of them described by TfL as "mature" were removed in order to accommodate the cycle track at this point. What plans to TfL have to replant trees in this area?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Just on that point, Mr Mayor, do you think it would be more effective if cyclists who were caught going through red lights had their bikes impounded immediately so that their mode of transport is removed and they have to then go somewhere to recover it and pay a fine to get their bike back? As a cyclist myself, the most inconvenient thing is to lose your bike in the middle of a journey and to have to then clack off in boots and Lycra to get the Tube. Cyclists are much more likely to think...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

I just wanted to explore a bit more the interaction with gangs because you are right, Mr Mayor, that the anti-gang command or the new Trident Command, as it was, was launched at the end of 2011. Obviously, there would have been a bump in activity, arrests and convictions during the early part of 2012. Many of those gang nominals will have had, in my view, relatively paltry sentences and will be now re-emerging from the secure estate. What connection is there between them reaching the end of their sentences and re-emerging and this rise in activity, which may well...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, you and I have sat in this horseshoe now for just over seven years. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has been historic. Kit Malthouse AM MP: During that time, the conversation and the questions from the other parties have never changed. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): It has deteriorated. Kit Malthouse AM MP: It has always been, “You are cutting. It is a disaster. Things are going to get worse”, yet crime and the budget have inexorably fallen, together, in parallel. Do you think your victory in 2012 and the Government’s victory not a few...