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• Reference: 2020/2097
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

What are the main challenges for London government as it emerges and recovers from the impact of COVID-19?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Léonie Cooper AM: My first question is to David Bellamy and it is about the balance between lives and livelihoods. Many politicians and commentators have portrayed the journey out of lockdown as a trade-off between the economy and health and between lives and livelihoods. Do you agree that this is a false distinction and that there cannot really be a full economic recovery without the public being confident that going about daily life is safe?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Unmesh Desai AM: Chair, my questions are to Mr David Bellamy. Mr Bellamy, in your opening statement you said that inequalities have been laid bare by this crisis. You also said we cannot go back to how things were and that this is no time for cuts. You talked about the wider financial climate and some tough decisions that have to be made. In moving forward, we heard about the work of the London Recovery Board and the London Transition Board, but ordinary Londoners out there can be forgiven for thinking there are just yet more quangos and more bureaucratic...

• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Dr Alison Moore AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is for Niran Mothada. London’s transport system is critical to the functioning of the city, as we all know. How will your Board marry up the impact that COVID-19 is having on transport, both its finances and how Londoners will move about in the future, with individual and business needs so that London remains open?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Joanne McCartney AM: My question is to Niran. Looking forward at economic recovery, do you think there is a balance between jobs, in terms of the amount of jobs and job security we can offer, and making sure that companies offer good terms and conditions? Is that something that the Recovery Board has at the forefront of its mind?

• Reference: 2016/0380
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

What are you leaving in the in-tray for your successor?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Tom Copley AM: Mr Mayor, yesterday the President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects, Jane Duncan, called for the Garden Bridge process to be halted. This morning it emerged that TfL’s Managing Director of Planning, Richard de Cani, who is a former employee of Arup and who decided alone on the awarding of the engineering contract, which went to Arup, has just been given a job at Arup. Why was he allowed to be the sole decision‑maker in the awarding of the Garden Bridge procurement contract?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Navin Shah AM: In 2006, 45 out of 270 or 17% of Tube stations were step‑free. As of November last year, there are 66 step‑free Tube stations. That is 24% overall. This is an increase of 7% over nine years or so. Mr Mayor, do you think that this is a good enough increase in eight years? Not really a great legacy to leave behind, is it, on an important issue like this?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Jennette Arnold OBE AM: My first question is to the Mayor and then I have one for Mike Brown. Mr Mayor, what are you doing to ensure that the noisy sections of the Tube network are dealt with before you leave office and before the Night Tube schedule begins?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I would like to ask the Mayor about the advertisements on the Tube for tourism in northern Cyprus and whether they will be continuing in the future. Do you accept that they have caused widespread distress and serious offence to the Greek Cypriots in London and my constituents? The advertisements mislead the public, who might not realise that many of the businesses that would benefit from this tourism are on illegally expropriated land and that the airport in northern Cyprus does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) safety standards either.