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• Reference: 2020/3044
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

What steps are you taking to improve air quality around the Royal Docks? Given there is significant residential development completed and planned in the area, constituents have raised with me issues of poor air quality, in part due to the presence of London City Airport, but also lots of industrial and logistics sites, construction sites and the future Silvertown Tunnel.

• Reference: 2019/20882
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

I welcome Tower Hamlets’ £200 000 air quality fund to support those with ideas for improving air quality in the borough. Please outline the ways in which your policies have supported the work of Tower Hamlets in improving air quality.

• Reference: 2019/20207
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Do you still regard Extinction Rebellion as, to use your word, 'Allies'?

• Reference: 2019/17622
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Residents have complained to me that the emissions from idling canal boats adjacent to their homes are impacting upon their daily lives. I am aware you have encouraged boroughs to seek funding to address such issues through the air quality fund. Please could you advise how many boroughs have accessed funding for the installation of tow path charging points and what else you are doing to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2019/8899
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

You encouraged the Extinction Rebellion protests in the week before Easter, with arrested demonstrators claiming that their actions were effectively endorsed by you Tweeting: ‘We’re facing a climate emergency. I fully support the right of protesters to protest on this vital issue and urge organisers to work with police to ensure their demonstrations are peaceful and lawful and that disruption is kept to a minimum.’ However, the UK contributes a tiny fraction of global carbon emissions, just 1% and falling. By contrast, China produces 29% of the world’s CO2 emissions. How much responsibility you are going to shoulder for these...

• Reference: 2019/8903
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

To ask the Mayor is it true that protesters at the Extinction Rebellion protests before Easter were provided with prepared witness statements, designed to convince the courts that their actions were a “reasonable and proportionate response”? These documents advised protesters to tell officers that they have the support of the Mayor of London, who has declared a “climate emergency” in London.

• Reference: 2017/2432
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How many 'green' buses are operating in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and which routes do they serve?

• Reference: 2017/2433
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How many 'green' buses are operating in the London Borough of Newham and which routes do they serve?

• Reference: 2017/2439
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

What air quality monitors are installed on the route of the 25/N25 bus in each borough the route serves?

• Reference: 2017/2440
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How many times have the air quality monitors installed on the route of the 25/N25 bus recorded a breach in the recommended pollution limits in the past year?