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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: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, Mayor Khan. I just wanted to speak to you about the underlying issues and the reason how we got to a point where you in the previous manifesto were calling for a London-specific rent control, which should be developed with tenants, landlords and also lenders, those people who are involved in the sector as a whole. But thinking about it more broadly, [evictions under] Section 21 [of the Housing Act 1988] being the number one driver of homeless in our capital city. Just yesterday, [the London Assembly Housing Committee] as part...

• 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: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair. We are talking about apples and oranges. Help to Buy, as everybody knows here, help precisely nobody on a housing waiting list. It was money for people to buy a house who clearly could not afford homes in London. It has made the affordability crisis in this capital a thousand times worse. The National Audit Office has repeatedly talked about how it was poor value for money. That money, which was spent giving taxpayer cash to people that already could afford to buy homes they could not afford, would have been better spent on...

• 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: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Sem Moema AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to you, Mayor Khan and Commissioner. My question is about TfL’s delivery of its 20,000 housing target. You have got a target for 20,000 homes by 2031, of which half - I am pleased to hear - will be affordable. However, on 13 June [2023] your Finance Officer said that “the focus is on bringing forward new schemes”, so taking things through planning. Given the challenges in the housing sector at the moment with interest rates, labour issues and maybe concerns that potential partners might have about their own financial position...

• 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...