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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: 05 June 2013

Nicky Gavron (AM): Thank you for the report and thank you so much for the way you are amplifying it, Tony. This is a little bit different from what Jenny Jones and Murad Qureshi have been saying but it is building on that. Do you think if there was a targeted form of land tax on those sites which have planning permissions, and we know now we have 211,000 homes sitting on land with planning permission at the moment, that would help bring forward housing?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Nicky Gavron (AM): Picking up on what you were saying earlier about hypothecation and recognising that you are trying to do a very important, long term job which may pay off, in the shorter term, how far is your survey of other cities looking at the ways in which other city governments have been enabled to set charges like congestion charging, or have the powers to set levies and so on, which they can hypothecate? The Mayor has two opportunities in London: CIL and congestion charging, and there could be others like that. Are you going to come up with...