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• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. The Evening Standard - this was a Rachel Burford [Chief Political Correspondent] article - reported in May [2023] that the Leader of Harrow Council and Harrow councillors, and senior local Tory officials, were running a Facebook group that celebrated ULEZ camera vandalism. One post linking to a news story about the destruction was captioned, “Well done”. Posts and comments on the group also spouted Islamophobic tropes about you and had unacceptable posts referring to a child sex offender on their page. What are your thoughts on the Harrow Conservatives running a Facebook page that...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Mayor. You froze all TfL fares under your control for the first four years of your mayoralty and in these last three years the fares have gone up due to requirements in the Government funding deal made with the pandemic. What would you like to do with fares when you are no longer bound by any Government requirements?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. First of all I would like to address a question to Sir John, referring to another John, John Dickie, from John Kavanagh’s organisation [BusinessLDN], has stated that cutting back on HS2 is a false economy and it will lead to increased costs in the future. What are your observations on this?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Krupesh Hirani AM: My first question is to Richard. One of the important sectors in London’s economy is the construction sector. It is clear from supply shortages of construction materials since Brexit and also the pandemic, as well as increasing costs, that this will leave an impact on not just the Mayor’s, but also councils up and down the country’s ability to carry on delivering affordable housing in their areas. How important is building affordable housing to London’s economic recovery and London’s businesses?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: One of the things that residents who live in the existing undeveloped area quite rightly ask is what is in it for them. We have spoken already about the transport interchanges between HS2 and the Elizabeth line, but there is nothing quite as annoying as having to go into central London to come back out of again. One of the other long-term transport proposals for this area is the West London Orbital. Can you shed some light on how discussions with TfL are going and with the West London Alliance (WLA) are going on developing the West...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: My question is to Andy Byford. What action are you taking to ensure that both staff and passengers remain safe from abuse as more and more people return to the TfL network?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you. Moving from east to west, my questions are for David Lunts in relation to the OPDC. I am mindful of the current consultation, which closes on 5 July [2021]. In relation to the revised plans, how will you ensure that they still deliver for the area, and for London more widely?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Richard Barnes (Deputy Mayor): Chair, I know a number of hymns that would lift us, but I have heard the gloom from the Labour Party, and as they are only half-full glass people, then it would be difficult. Anyway, Mr Mayor, I am grateful that Assembly Member Doocey raised the issue of the Olympics under this open-ended question. Is it not true that when you assumed office four years ago, there was no legacy plans for the Olympics? Is it not true that the cost of the Olympics had gone up from 2005 at £2.4 billion to £9 billion in...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Heathrow, Mr Mayor, sits in my constituency and can I remind you and Assembly Member Qureshi that the previous Mayor did look at Heathrow, did wish to introduce a congestion charge around Heathrow until he discovered he did not own the roads and the income would have attained wholly to BAA and not a halfpenny would have come to this organisation, so he rapidly abandoned it. However, recently when he was in the villages around Heathrow, he again mentioned congestion charges at Heathrow which would be an absolute nonsense and achieve nothing to the people of London. Can you assure...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Thank you, Chair. Can I say how grateful I am to Assembly Member Shawcross for raising the issues of outer London and the residents of outer London? I live in outer London. I represent outer London. Indeed, I travel in from outer London on a daily basis. I am pleased that after 12 years the Labour Party is actually interested in outer London. Perhaps they will come and visit us. They certainly did not for the first eight years. But, Mr Mayor, my residents have gone through pain as the Metropolitan line has been upgraded and indeed at weekends as...