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• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

Nicky Gavron AM: Before I ask my questions, which are about the bus service in outer London, I just want to place on record my congratulations to TfL for what it has achieved over the last 20 years. I can remember in the 1990s when we were looking at international ratings of London and it was considered the easiest major city in the world to get to and the most difficult to get around. In those 20 years we have seen no less really than a bus revolution, a rail renaissance, the pushing of more walking and cycling and more...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

These families are generally led by women; I wondered how significant you thought the gender pay-gap in London was, which is increasing - widening - here, whereas it isn't in the rest of the country. I understand that the most typical job for a woman here is paid at £5.30 an hour, whereas the most typical job for a man is paid at £17.50 an hour.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

You've just said that the proportion of children living below the poverty line in lone-parent families is high ' I do not know if you have the exact figures?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Scandinavian countries have poverty rates which are close to zero, so it obviously is eminently preventable. Would you like to comment on that?