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• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Like many, I have been devastated this party conference season to see on show the growing transphobic rhetoric in all parties [represented] within this Assembly. I clearly acknowledge with sadness that the crescendo of that lies with my own party due to the seniority with which those comments come. LGBT and particularly trans Londoners are some of the most vulnerable in London. It is not just the cost of living but the political landscape which is having a long-term effect on mental health. Firstly, can I give a rare and genuine thank you for your...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Emma Best AM: I think so. Thanks, Chair. Yes, I was just trying to work out Deputy Mayor [Tom] Copley’s political neutrality, which seemed a lot stronger when he was talking to Assembly Member [Tony] Devenish than Assembly Member [Unmesh] Desai.

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Just quickly, Mr Mayor. 18% of the affordable housing starts last year [2022] were family homes - only 18% - and, clearly, that is not going to meet the need to support overcrowded homes. Will you look urgently into making sure that that percentage increases when we look at these stats next year [2024]?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, both. Liz, we were just hearing from [Lord] Peter Hendy [CBE] then that Mayoral Development Corporations (MDCs) “get things done”. According to the [Sir Bob] Kerslake Review [ of GLA Group Housing Delivery ], the OPDC “has not delivered any housing directly”. Is this something that you think is now a position that has changed and you feel more confident about delivery?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Emma Best AM: In 2017, TfL modelling suggested that 135,000 vehicles per day would use the expanded ULEZ and that was the justification for spending £130 million on the expansion. Fast-forward to today - or to November [2021] when we had the last stock of that - and you have 50,000 chargeable vehicles travelling within the expanded zone. That is a little over a third of where the estimated figure came in the forecast. Now, looking ahead to the London-wide expansion, TfL estimates that 87% of vehicles travelling within that zone will be compliant, leaving 13% that are not. There...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Thank you. A lot of people talk about the screening of immigrants coming into the country; a lot of them do not show up the fact that they have TB, but they may be carriers, like you said, and it is poor housing conditions, overcrowding and dampness that actually brings the TB out into their system, so there actually is no point spending a lot of money on screening.

• Reference: 2004/0592
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

When you next meet with Network Rail will you press them to improve the cleanliness around stations? .

• Reference: 2004/0561
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Please advise me about the rationale of abolishing the zone 4 monthly bus pass. How many people buy bus passes? Has TfL raised any additional revenue from the sale of bus passes by increasing the price from £28.50 to £36.50 for bus passengers who travel solely in zone 4 but now need to buy an all zone bus pass? .

• Reference: 2004/0570
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Is the Mayor aware that whilst Simon Hughes is complaining and accusing the Mayor of failing to provide enough new housing in London, Liberal Democrats in Islington and elsewhere are opposing new house building? .

• Reference: 2004/0591
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

I welcome the allocation of £30, 000 towards the 2004 Pride parade, but what is the rationale for giving this sum which is substantially less than some other major London festivals which the Mayor supports. What does the £30, 000 fund? .