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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: -- if I can bring us back to my question. Mr Mayor, you will have seen, as we have all just been seeing in our phones, that the London Ambulance Service, the police and the Fire Brigade have all been updating us on a very serious incident that has just taken place in Camp Road in Merton in my constituency where a number of children have been casualties. I understand it is not terror related. I am sure you would want to take an opportunity to send your thoughts and prayers to the parents of the children...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to continue to riff on the theme of the ULEZ and I would like to start with you, Commissioner. I know that we are out to consultation at the moment, so the shape of the scheme is not fully known to us yet, but I am assuming that there are now some discussions in progress with the DfT regarding the proposal to extend into outer London. I just wonder what kind of feedback you have had from the DfT on the plans for expansion. Has it expressed any views?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: I would like to start with Commissioner Byford, if I might. There are quite a lot of us around this room, including me and the Mayor, who talk a lot about a green recovery. Do you think that TfL is doing enough to increase and protect diversity across the whole of its estate and its network?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair, and long live the impartiality. Mr Mayor, I just wanted to pick up a few of the threads of things that we have all been asking you this morning about transport. We seem to be in a slightly contradictory period of time where, for example, a previous Mayor handed back the £700 million budget that we used to get for operating the roads in London. My postbag - and I know others - is full and no doubt yours, too, of people saying there are potholes. At the same time, we give...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. We have just been talking about the central ULEZ and some of the issues relating to it. Obviously one of the things that it has done is contributed to a 44% reduction in roadside NO2 levels, which is great. However, that is not good enough, as you have repeatedly said, and many of us agree, given the air quality problems in London. Just set out for us exactly, in advance of the 21 October expansion, what the effect of that expansion is going to be on air quality within the new expanded boundary?

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I wanted to ask you about the role of consultants at the MPA. We see that there is a budget reduction on external consultants. We also know that there are many hundreds of consultants at the MPA, many of whom we're not quite sure what they're doing; consulting on each other, reviewing each other's reviews and all the rest of these wonderful things consultants get to do. Perhaps you can tell us how the savings are going to be made and are we going to get value for money on their work in the next year?

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Yes I meant MPS sorry, a slight slip of the tongue. That sounds great, but then are we going to have more consultants to manage the review of consultants? Exactly how is it going to happen and who is it going to be lead by? Where will we end up with the actual results, figures, performance indicators and all the rest of it, so we actually know that we have got the right level of consultants? Obviously I accept there is a need for what they do, but equally I share a concern you have already expressed about what they...

• Reference: 2001/0249-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

What is the knock on effects of trying to accommodate over 2,000 extra officers over two years without suffering severe operational difficulties? .

• Reference: 2001/0251-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Have measures been taken to ensure that those police officers working overtime to provide extra patrols are provided with adequate facilities to eat, rest, recuperate, etc? .

• Reference: 2001/0255-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Has the ever-increasing use of CCTV in London led to a reduction in crime in the areas covered and an increase in convictions? .