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• Reference: 2019/2108
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

What are your plans for the future of the black cab trade in London?

• Reference: 2018/2974
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

In February we learned that London had witnessed a 20% increase in rapes between January 2017 and January 2018. The Evening Standard reported the following on 23 rd February 2018: Asked at a London Assembly hearing if he had any idea what was behind the rise, Sir Craig said: “No, is the honest answer. It’s not as simple as saying this is increased confidence. Of course, that plays a part but there is something going on with sexual offending in London that we don’t fully understand, the causes of it. We see the end of it, [but] we don’t understand...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

David Kurten AM: I just want to follow from Assembly Member Arnold’s question about the link between children who are excluded from school, or people in general, and then the propensity to get involved in crime. I know, Commissioner, you said that correlation is not necessarily causation, but I wondered if the both of you have considered something that you did not mention that may be staring us in the face, which is that family breakdown and fatherlessness possibly is a cause for both of those things. In London among young people there is an epidemic of fatherlessness, and this...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Thank you, Chairman. Good morning. Mr Mayor, your Transport Strategy talks about extending Crossrail from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet. I do not know whether that is something for the far distant future or something you would like to see happen sooner. Will this delay in the central part of Crossrail affect your plans for a Crossrail extension?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

David Kurten AM: It was very good to hear your answers about Brexit earlier, the positivity you had about OPDC going forward and that as we approach Brexit day people are still wanting to invest in London. Obviously, you are concerned about skills. Michael, you half‑answered my question talking about how you are going to be partnering up with West London College and there will be 150 spaces there, but I would be very interested to hear any more details about the opportunities that you have to provide apprenticeships to British kids and kids from London who could gain the...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning. Like my colleague David, I really would like to commend you for, first of all, the straightforwardness of your answers and the sense of possibility amongst them and the enthusiasm, which it is infectious. You are not being waylaid by issues such as Brexit or, indeed, HS2 for that matter. That was another one. I am very glad to hear that that would not be fatal.

• Reference: 2018/0701
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 08 March 2018

Given the current financial situation of TFL, how will this impact on your capital investment programme?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

David Kurten AM: I want to address this to the Commissioner, if I could. Following on from Assembly Member Dismore’s question earlier about the couple of cases that have happened this week where we have had innocent men being put through the court system because of the withholding of evidence, it has come to my attention that the same person was in charge of both cases. Is it correct that Detective Constable Mark Azariah was the person who was in charge of both cases? This is in the press. I do not know if you can answer that or not...

• Reference: 2017/4151
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

With the housing market currently stagnating due to record house prices, banks clamping down on mortgage lending through tougher affordability criteria and interest rate rises looming on affordability requirements, are the current plans by the LLDC just too ambitious?