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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I do not like to call people liars, so I am going to say I think we have had some misrepresentation this morning. I am just wondering if we could clear up a couple of misrepresentations. You have not actually paid any money into trade union bank accounts, have you? You have made money available for TfL to pay its staff.

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: I am sorry, Chair. No, I am fine. Assembly Member Devenish has probably covered it. Maybe, actually, Mr Mayor, talking about removing trees, when we are looking at difficult situations like dangerous junctions, would you agree with me that it is always essential for TfL to make sure that it does approach these difficult decisions, looking at it in the round? It is considering SuDS, for example, in relation to its roads, the climate emergency, the urban heat island effect, and it takes that into consideration and then do replanting if it is thinking of taking things...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair, and I am grateful to Assembly Member Rogers for raising the issue of the administration of the scrappage scheme. I am sure loads of us with constituencies are doing quite a lot of casework on a variety of things. I had a very strange case where someone in my constituency was told that her car, which I have seen her driving, was not in fact a vehicle and therefore she was not able to claim the scrappage scheme, which was quite hilarious. She sent me the email. I was able to resolve that...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor. I just wanted to focus on this issue about fairness. I wondered if you thought that encouraging employers to pay the London Living Wage, would you say that is fair to try to increase the National Minimum Wage to the London Living Wage, and yet there is someone present in this room who said, “This would be the most damaging to the lowest skilled and lowest paid whose skills and value to the employers do not meet the London Living Wage”?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I would like to bring us back to the original question, which was about taking responsibility. I just wondered if you might agree with me that all politicians, whether they be mayors or Assembly Members, should take responsibility for making sure that they do not mislead Londoners? Quoting randomly from emails from 2018 that were actually about the LEZ and implying that they are about the central London, inner London or Greater London ULEZ is misleading and people should reflect on that and not mislead Londoners.

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: -- if I can bring us back to my question. Mr Mayor, you will have seen, as we have all just been seeing in our phones, that the London Ambulance Service, the police and the Fire Brigade have all been updating us on a very serious incident that has just taken place in Camp Road in Merton in my constituency where a number of children have been casualties. I understand it is not terror related. I am sure you would want to take an opportunity to send your thoughts and prayers to the parents of the children...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, when you were originally looking at the package of adaptation and mitigation, which is very long for Londoners because we know we are asking people to make a significant change, retrofit was not included. You have been kind enough to describe me as someone who has chivvied you, possibly badgered you to make changes to various policies. I have mentioned retrofit on I do not know how many occasions and it is now included. Would you say that you listen to Londoners and listen to Assembly Members who put forward...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Obviously, our condolences to Assembly Member Bailey on his loss that has prevented him from coming here this morning, but the issues that relate to the video footage and also the invitation that was sent out, talking about jingling and mingling, when mingling was specifically something we were asked not to do, overrides that. There are some really important principles relating to the Nolan Principles of Public Life and showing a better standard of upholding the law amongst people who have been elected. On that basis, I hear what you say about the peerage...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much. I wanted to ask Sir John Armitt a question and, if we could be brief, that would be really helpful. It is nothing to do with fluffy projects. By the way, I will just reveal that Assembly Member Devenish recently acquired a dog, which is why he is slightly obsessed with fluffy projects at the moment. Keith Prince AM: Nice segue. Léonie Cooper AM: I wanted to ask you if you actually think overall whether or not sufficient attention is paid to the journey towards net zero in all of our assessment of infrastructure...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I would like to start with [Sir] John Armitt and go to John Kavanagh, if I may. In your 2016 report, Transport for a World City , it said, “Crossrail 2 should be taken forward as a priority”. You have reiterated that call since. Seven years on, do you still think that Crossrail 2 should be a priority? I am very interested in this because I represent Merton and Wandsworth down in the South West. My colleague here, who is with the Mayor this morning, Joanne McCartney [AM], who represents Enfield and...