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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning, good to see you at a Plenary, Mr Mayor. A question about bus drivers and hot weather. If you listen to bus drivers, one of the issues that they bring up a lot -- not so much this week, we are enjoying a cooler July week -- but a couple of weeks ago we had a period of hot weather, which is normal for the time of year, and a huge number of complaints from bus drivers that the conditions that they were operating in in their cab was completely in excess of what is...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much. My questions are also to the Mayor. You will recall, Mr Mayor, the election campaign of 2016, where from the very start, sitting on platforms with Assembly Member Pidgeon and yourself, I would not stop going on about the need for a London-wide ULEZ and smarter, fairer road charging. It is a huge relief to finally see an outbreak of widespread, political courage on this matter; I really appreciate it. For my question, I wanted to go back to what the Transport Committee asked in relation to promoting safety considerations as part of...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Neil Garratt AM: Good afternoon. Listening to the way you advocate for your policy, I can understand why quite a lot of Londoners would think that it is an obvious and straightforward thing to do. You make it sound like a no-brainer, which really makes it even more impressive that the majority of Londoners tell YouGov that they do not really support it. What I find perturbing is that the way that you advocate the policy; if it is a straightforward and obvious way forward, why is it that you have to be so dishonest and unclear with Londoners about...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM (Chair): Thank you very much, Chair. I have a tiny bit of time left, and I wanted to reflect back on the kind of communications we are getting. I have been getting a lot of emails. By and large, the people who are against this scheme are being terribly reasonable and just pointing out to me that they have a degree of car dependency, and they are worried about the cost to them of changing their vehicles. We are getting some quite constructive conversations about what they would need in order to do that. Something you said...

• Reference: 2022/1748
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

As part of the Road Task Force work under a previous Mayor, Transport for London (TfL) published a paper with an analysis paper titled ‘How many cars are there in London and who owns them?’, which provided useful data on car ownership in London. With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Would you consider updating this paper, and could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years (2017-2019) with full fieldwork showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough? https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in…

• Reference: 2022/1749
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years with full fieldwork (2017-2019) showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Siân Berry AM: Just briefly, I just want to say at the start that I have already had lots of constituents get in touch about huge concerns they have about cuts to the buses. That consultation is vital, and I will be encouraging many Londoners to respond. But today, for my questions, I am going to focus on fares and the cost of living and put my first question to the Mayor. I am really concerned about the impact of the cost of living crisis on people who depend on using public transport. A Royal College of Nursing survey in...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. You might remember a couple of months ago you had an exchange with my colleague, Assembly Member Fortune, about the poorest Londoners owning cars in which you seemed to be incredulous that they would. Rather than have an exchange with you about that, I thought I would write to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), who very helpfully wrote to me. Its definition of the poorest Londoners, the lowest decile, is those earning, roughly, gross household income less than about £12,000 per year. Of those, the ONS says that about a quarter own cars and...

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

Siân Berry AM: I want to pick up on the Silvertown Tunnel with the Mayor briefly. Papers from TfL show that the consortium contracted to build and run Silvertown expect to begin actual tunnelling operations in January 2022, so this date basically represents the last moment to stop major works since you cannot actually back these machines back out of the tunnels once you have started to do tunnel works behind them. Before you further back yourself into a corner on this, will you one last time formally reconsider this scheme in light of all we know now about pollution...