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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Siân Berry AM: Mr Mayor, you mentioned one budget announcement that you have made in that introduction there. I am very concerned to find that you have not sent us any more announcements yet, despite publishing your new draft consolidated budget last night [17 January 2024]. However, I do note in it that you have received an additional £512 million that you can distribute. Looking at the table for Transport for London income on page 78 of that document, it is clear there that your passenger income has dropped compared with the consultation draft budget by £128 million. That is...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My questions are going to be to Sir John, I am afraid. I would love to bring in the rest of you, but I do not have time. You have talked before, with my colleagues, about carbon impacts. I assume that your upcoming review is going to look quite seriously at the contribution of investments across different sectors to Government targets of net zero by 2050. My interest is transport and in London we also have our own target of net zero by 2030. I am very interested in the impact of...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Hina Bokhari AM: Thank you, Chair. I do want to touch on something that Assembly Member Polanski was discussing earlier about flooding, but I want to link it to pollution through sewage. I am sure Caroline [Sheridan] and Charlie [Wood] would like to come in at this point, but I want to start off with Sir John. I know that you were talking about specific projects not always being part of your approach, but the baseline report that you produced in 2021 said serious pollution incidents from water and sewage are unacceptably high. Then your report in 2022 about reducing...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Hina Bokhari AM: All my questions will be for the Deputy Mayor for Business. London’s street markets, small businesses and high streets are a vital part of the fabric of London’s culture and economy. They showcase the diversity of our city and provide a place that we can all meet, integrate and do business. We must do all we can to support them and to help them thrive. Last month [February 2022], the Mayor announced a £10 million budget to attract more tourists - as you were mentioning before - back into the capital, which includes a domestic and international...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Hina Bokhari AM: Deputy Mayor, will you look again for the widely supported disability employment taskforce for helping disability employment pay gaps in London?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: I am going to talk about flooding. There are recent issues that I am sure you are aware of that have happened in London. If you were to examine the OPDC website, the most recent information on policies to deal with flooding go back to 2015. Can you provide an update on the development of infrastructure and capacity to deal with flood risk, especially to deal with surface and storm water runoff?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: I am going to talk about the topical and serious issue of sewage. In 2019, raw sewage flowed from a Thames Water overflow pipe into the wetlands, running into the canal and the River Lea on the Olympic Park a staggering 91 times over 1,026 hours. There are now reports of raw sewage once again pouring into the Park’s water network, flowing from the recent heavy rains. Not only does this hit the reputation of the Park as a welcoming, clean and attractive place, but the wetlands particularly were intended to be an eco-friendly area for animal...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to start with some questions for Lyn on transport and traffic reduction. I want to focus my questions on strategic journeys into the LLDC area and outside of it, not the local journeys, but those longer journeys into and out of the area. We saw a huge number of those for the Olympics itself, but there were also longer-term venues that attract people from longer distances, the shopping centre, the sporting venues, the new cultural venues coming up. Do you have a current assessment of the overall car travel mode share of these strategic journeys...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to pick up on the Silvertown Tunnel with the Mayor briefly. Papers from TfL show that the consortium contracted to build and run Silvertown expect to begin actual tunnelling operations in January 2022, so this date basically represents the last moment to stop major works since you cannot actually back these machines back out of the tunnels once you have started to do tunnel works behind them. Before you further back yourself into a corner on this, will you one last time formally reconsider this scheme in light of all we know now about pollution...