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• Reference: 2022/5385
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Can you please provide the evidence for how Let’s Do London attracts £28 of investment for every £1 spent?

• Reference: 2022/5386
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Your office has claimed “It is also estimated that the campaign [Let’s Do London] will bring an additional 600,000 visitors to London from other parts of the UK, Germany, France and the USA”. Can you please provide the evidence of the correlation between the Let’s Do London campaign and the 600,000 claim?

• Reference: 2022/5387
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Your office states with regard to 2022, “2022 has been an exceptional year for the capital with the UEFA Women’s EURO championship final, the 50th Anniversary of Pride in London, the opening of the pioneering ABBA Voyage show at a custom-made theatre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a series of special events to mark the 25th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Globe, and the return of Notting Hill Carnival and the Formula-E London Grand Prix. The Elizabeth Line has also opened this summer, giving visitors a new high-speed route across the city and to Heathrow Airport. 2023 will include the Coronation of...

• Reference: 2022/5388
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

In what way was your most recent London Recovery Board meeting “another positive, productive meeting” and what was achieved?

• Reference: 2022/5389
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Page 82 of the ‘London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment (ULEZ Scheme IIA)’ states: “There is potential for communities outside but adjacent to the boundary of the Proposed Scheme to be disproportionately impacted, as the charge could create severance between residents in these areas and facilities or places of work within the ULEZ expansion area. Residents of these communities are more likely to regularly access employment, services and facilities in outer London than those living further from the boundary.” Will you admit that your plans to expand ULEZ with fall harder on outer London than inner London?

• Reference: 2022/5390
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Page 83 of the ‘London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment (ULEZ Scheme IIA)’ states: “The Proposed Scheme would increase the cost of driving into outer London for residents and businesses that do not own compliant vehicles, and this may lead to social isolation and reduced access to opportunities particularly for some PCGs and vulnerable groups such as older people, disabled people, and people on low incomes who are unable to access public transport or use active modes of travel.” Do you believe that expanding ULEZ should come with the price of increasing social isolation, and reducing opportunities for disabled, older and...

• Reference: 2022/5391
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Page 88 of the ‘London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment (ULEZ Scheme IIA)’ states: “services and jobs are more spread out in outer London than they are in inner London, therefore making it more difficult for people to walk and cycle to these locations. Where public transport and active travel is less accessible in outer London and the adjacent areas, those on low incomes unable to afford a compliant car may find it more difficult to change their mode of travel to adapt.” therefore “This is likely to be a particular issue for Londoners on low incomes who work unsocial hours...

• Reference: 2022/5392
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Page 88 of the ‘London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment (ULEZ Scheme IIA)’ states: “The increasing price of second-hand Euro 4+ petrol cars and Euro 6 diesel cars may be a potential issue for those within lower income households looking to switch to a compliant vehicle. One in give second-hand cars in the UK cost more than new models, and the average price of a used car on Auto Trader’s marketplace had increased 29 per cent over the last year”. Given this proves lower income Londoners will not be able not be able to replace their cars with compliant ones either...

• Reference: 2022/5393
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Page 90 of the ‘London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment (ULEZ Scheme IIA)’ states: “People who rely on a non-compliant vehicle to undertake their work in outer London – e.g. tradespeople such as joiners, plumbers and builders – would also be impacted by the Proposed Scheme.” How will the scrappage scheme be targeted to avoid harming those who are self-employed?

• Reference: 2022/5494
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

What are you views on digital identity being implemented in the UK, and in London specifically?