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• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): Mr Mayor, I wonder whether you would agree with me - as sometimes you do - in relation to the Silvertown Tunnel and how important it will be for you to further your goals for walking and cycling. As you know, the Silvertown Tunnel will provide us with a tunnel fit for the 21st century, not one that was designed for the 19th century. One of the biggest benefits will be the fact that we can get a double-decker bus through that. I believe, and I would be grateful if you could confirm, that there...

• 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...

• Reference: 2021/3277
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

How is Transport for London (TfL) supporting London’s recovery from the pandemic, and what are its greatest priorities and challenges over the longer-term?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Keith Prince AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I trust you had a good break. Do you believe that you should be doing everything possible to boost London’s economy and help London’s businesses over the coming months and years?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Siân Berry AM: I would like to start with the Commissioner. On the TfL deal with the Government, one key part of that is the requirement to increase our fares in London by retail price index (RPI) plus 1%. That comes out at 4.8% this year, based on the figure for RPI that came out in July. Are you comfortable that a nurse in zone 6 is going to face an increase in the cost of travel on TfL services of as much as £20 a month according to this arrangement?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Elly Baker AM: My first question is to the Mayor, around service levels and service level reviews. TfL is required to review service levels on London buses, London Underground, and TfL, this month as you know. Does it make sense to review them just six weeks after the easing of restrictions on 19 July?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My question is to the Mayor. I would like to ask about the recovery from the pandemic, which should include cycling. On 4 August [2021], Dr Marta Krawiec was killed cycling to work at Holborn Gyratory. There have been eight cyclists killed there since 2008; four at the junction of Southampton Row and Theobalds Road. I have seen your recent reply to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals about this where you stated: “TfL has already delivered funding for short-term interim measures and will support Camden to deliver these as quickly as possible.” Can you today provide...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I will be addressing my question to you. My question is concerning creating financial sustainability in TfL by 2023. TfL has reduced its funding requirement for the financial year from £2.7 billion identified in the March 2021 budget down to £1.9 billion in the July revised budget. Can you explain what you have done to create this £800 million saving and whether you are still on course to becoming financially sustainable by April 2023?

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Peter Fortune AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. This is for you. It is sticking with the finance theme that we had there. It is relating back to that expanding ULEZ zone, which I accept has the potential to have a real impact on air quality, but also some impact on the least well-off. You will recall in June the Conservative Group here put forward a proposed solution to expand the scrappage scheme. We suggested some money that could be used to fund that as well. You said that there was no money available to do that. I was very pleased...

• 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?