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• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. I will start with the Deputy Mayor. Apart from one or two bits of emotional language, I agree with virtually everything that has been said this morning. We clearly have a major issue and we need to do more to resolve it. of course, there could be a change of Government, I hope not, but there could be a change of Government in only 12 or 13 months. We can all set out the problem, it is easy to set out the problems and there has been great work done by people. I would like...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel, and good morning, Deputy Mayor. I think that was the best excuse I have heard for the Mayor not turning up yet. We get one every time. There is one thing that has not been mentioned so far this morning. As somebody who has spent most of my career in infrastructure, it is the vision thing. You are going into the begging bowl at the end, Deputy Mayor, but before you have a begging bowl you actually need a vision. Both of the first two Mayors really - and I do...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you. My questions are for Sir Mark, please. Eighty days into the job and clearly you are talking about good signals that things are getting better in policing in London, and I want to pick two topics, please. The first is obviously anti-Semitism, and AM Pidgeon has already mentioned the terrible incident last year in Hanukkah on Oxford Street. Is there any progress, please, on that investigation? You realise it is not specifically the investigation itself; it is the signal that that sends in terms of fighting anti-Semitism.

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. I am going to follow the Chair’s request earlier, Sir Mark, in terms of South Hampstead and also ask if you could look at blatant drug dealing in Earl’s Court. My wider question is: do you think, once you have been in office for a good year, we could get rid of blatant drug dealing? It has become far more blatant right across London in recent years. It really does - I use an old-fashioned expression - lower the tone of an area. It is all about trying to reassure Londoners that we are...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Deputy Mayor and the Chief Executive. Good afternoon. I believe that the LLDC will be wound up in just a few years’ time. You can probably perhaps remind me of the date to make sure I get the right date. What is the issue in terms of a risk register for the governance for that? Are you specifically concerned at all about the competence of any of the boroughs to take over those powers, particularly one borough with the initials T-H?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning or, rather, good afternoon, Deputy Mayor. You have a third of a billion pounds to spend a year. That is an awful lot of money. From what you said this morning I am not really sure if there is the step change in London that I would have thought for something you have full control on. The Mayor’s inability to turn up today illustrates. Is he actually interested in this hugely important area of public policy?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Can I first ask Assembly Member Cooper not to attack people’s children, even if it is the Prime Minister? Mr Commissioner, good morning to you. Tube noise: this morning on the Jubilee line we measured 123 decibels passing Bermondsey. This is not a party-political issue and I do not want to make party-political points on this. We all want this to be sorted. Now, you have almost sorted the Elizabeth line. Are you going to be able to sort Tube noise, and how, please?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Tony Devenish AM: At the Regeneration Committee a couple of years ago we talked about estates strategy and, when we asked about the carbon footprint of the strategy, we were met by silence. I do remember the meeting very clearly. Would you say you are leading on carbon matters that have been mentioned by Assembly Member Polanski in terms of the estate and not the appliances of the LFB? To the Deputy Mayor, would you be up to a pilot of possibly merging an LAS and an LFB station and making it a zero-carbon best-in-practice project?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Tony Devenish AM: I have three points, please. Firstly, we are almost at Christmas and I want to wish my local BCU Merry Christmas and thank them for all the work they have done during the year. They have been fantastic. On a far darker note, you will have seen the video online this week on Monday night during Hanukkah on Oxford Street, the antisemitism incident. Please make sure you catch these vile people as soon as possible. My third point and my question is, we had a very, very interesting meeting yesterday on the [draft] Police and Crime Plan...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Tony Devenish AM: The Mayor recently appointed [Lord] Bob Kerslake [Kt, former senior civil servant] to review the GLA’s housing delivery. How will this impact the OPDC - I believe you had a meeting with him very recently - and what are you looking for from the review and from the Mayor more generally?