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• 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.

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

Andrew Dismore AM: The particular routes I am concerned about, Mr Mayor, are those that are going to be affected by Conservative Hertfordshire County Council’s decision to cut £390,000 from those services, on top of the £1.5 million they cut last year, which threatens a number of outer London bus routes, which criss-cross my constituency and outer London and in and out of Hertfordshire - including the 142, 292, 298, 107 and 258. These routes are all affected and are essential to outer London residents.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to raise the issue of connectivity and broadband, which does not seem to be moving on particularly well. A few weeks ago, Emily Thornberry [Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury] raised in Parliament an example she had of a business in central London taking nine hours to upload a two-and-a-half-minute film, which is not particularly helpful. What are you doing to try to do something about this problem of connectivity?