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• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. I will start with the Deputy Mayor. Apart from one or two bits of emotional language, I agree with virtually everything that has been said this morning. We clearly have a major issue and we need to do more to resolve it. of course, there could be a change of Government, I hope not, but there could be a change of Government in only 12 or 13 months. We can all set out the problem, it is easy to set out the problems and there has been great work done by people. I would like...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you. Given the Government is floundering on a whole number of issues, including transport, it has sort of lost control of the agenda for change in some ways. Therefore, I go back to the growth agenda if we go back to a question that my colleague earlier answered about suburban rail and the expansion. Is it not about time we brought back on the original proposal that TfL co-ordinates London and the South east that enjoyed - enjoyed - cross-party support and from officials but was stopped because of an ideological reason from the DfT by...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Len Duvall AM: My question is for [Dr] Stephen King, it concerns the London Infrastructure Framework. You have recently released a report that calls on London to develop a central infrastructure development and delivery centre of expertise. What role would the GLA play in that? What is your thinking?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel, and good morning, Deputy Mayor. I think that was the best excuse I have heard for the Mayor not turning up yet. We get one every time. There is one thing that has not been mentioned so far this morning. As somebody who has spent most of my career in infrastructure, it is the vision thing. You are going into the begging bowl at the end, Deputy Mayor, but before you have a begging bowl you actually need a vision. Both of the first two Mayors really - and I do...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. Thank you for the way that you answered those previous questions. It is very enlightening for everyone around this table, whatever party they belong to. Also, I want to thank you for the work that you have done on your commission. It is a very important role that you have in advising and influencing the nation’s infrastructure debate. It is important for the future given - as you said - the background scenario about money and the challenges we face. It was a reality check, really. You visited this building back in January...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Len Duvall OBE AM: On the Stadium, since you have both been in position, we have stabilised the costs around the Stadium. We understand more about what the Stadium can do or cannot do. You have conversations with all the tenants and particularly you have opened up a relationship with the anchor tenant, but there are still legal issues and they are about the contracts that you have between your good selves. What is the future of the Stadium? What does that look like over the coming years? What are the potential options around that? Could you just give us...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Len Duvall OBE AM: Let us go back to real estate around the Stadium. Most of that would have been part of the open space and parkland. There are no options and nothing under your plans that you would build on that open space element that is included in your development area.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. My questions are for Sir Mark, please. Eighty days into the job and clearly you are talking about good signals that things are getting better in policing in London, and I want to pick two topics, please. The first is obviously anti-Semitism, and AM Pidgeon has already mentioned the terrible incident last year in Hanukkah on Oxford Street. Is there any progress, please, on that investigation? You realise it is not specifically the investigation itself; it is the signal that that sends in terms of fighting anti-Semitism.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to the Commissioner and it is about screening out crime. I have been raising a number of questions over many years about when the MPS first introduced screening out crime, and I recognise there have been some changes along the path of where it has got to at the moment. I also recognise it is a valuable tool. Do not put me in the view that you should not be doing it or anything like that, but is the MPS using it properly and appropriately, and are we screening...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I am going to follow the Chair’s request earlier, Sir Mark, in terms of South Hampstead and also ask if you could look at blatant drug dealing in Earl’s Court. My wider question is: do you think, once you have been in office for a good year, we could get rid of blatant drug dealing? It has become far more blatant right across London in recent years. It really does - I use an old-fashioned expression - lower the tone of an area. It is all about trying to reassure Londoners that we are...