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• Reference: 2016/0961
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Was a comprehensive new business case put together before deciding to order an additional 195 new Routemaster buses last month? If not, why not? Please also outline what appraisals have been undertaken of the existing fleet of new Routemaster buses to assess their performance against the fuel efficiency figures and passenger time savings promised in the original business case?

• Reference: 2016/0962
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Further to the comments made by TfL's Managing Director of Surface Transport at September's meeting of the Budget and Performance Committee - during which he stated that "the opportunity for high-capacity, long, three-door double-deckers has its limitations. There is not an infinite supply of routes that these particular types of vehicles could go on" - how many of the additional Routemaster buses recently ordered by TfL will have to have their vehicle length shortened in order to meet the operating requirements of their chosen routes.

• Reference: 2016/0963
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Will the reduced length of the additional Routemaster buses ordered by TfL mean these buses will carry fewer passengers than those currently in service?

• Reference: 2016/0964
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Please provide a list of all the bus routes that will be served by New Routemaster vehicles by summer 2017.

• Reference: 2016/0965
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Is Transport for London's dedicated 'No Engine Idling' email address ( [email protected] ) still active? If so, how many reports of idling were received via this email address in 2015?

• Reference: 2016/0966
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

How many reports of engine idling were received in total by TfL Customer Services between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2015?

• Reference: 2016/0967
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

In your latest official Report to the Assembly, you stated that "On 11 February, drivers using Tower Bridge were encouraged to stop idling and switch their engines off when the bridge is opening to help lower emissions and boost air quality." Can you confirm that nearly three years after funding was allocated to the London Borough of Southwark to tackle engine idling that occurs during the lifting of Tower Bridge, variable message signs advising driver to switch off their engines are still yet to appear?

• Reference: 2016/0968
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Do you regret not convincing government of the need to bring the penalty charge for vehicle idling into line with parking penalty charges to provide a stronger deterrent and to encourage wider enforcement, as you promised in your Air Quality Strategy?

• Reference: 2016/0969
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Given your own Air Quality Manifesto (2014) showed how London could meet European legal limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by 2020, do you feel the government's current plan for reducing NO2 in London - which does not see the capital meeting legal targets until 2025 at the earliest - contains a list of measures that will bring air pollution down to within legal limits in the shortest possible time?

• Reference: 2016/0970
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Following reports that indoor air pollution is contributing to around 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK (according to the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Paediatrics and Child Health), will you consider what more the GLA could do to increase awareness among Londoners of the risks that wood-burning stoves, spray deodorants, air fresheners, fly sprays and gas cookers can pose to the quality of indoor air?