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• Reference: 2024/1043
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Thank you for your response to question 2024/0819. The question was not concerned with your manifesto, however, but with the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’, with a link to a Guardian article which carried the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’. Was this Tweet incorrect?

• Reference: 2024/1044
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Putting your 2016 manifesto aside, was the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’ incorrect? Would you like to take the opportunity to retract the Tweet?

• Reference: 2024/1045
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Given your suggestion that we should look to your manifesto for your promises on tree planting, and not your Twitter account, do you accept the Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’ could be misleading and should be retracted?

• Reference: 2024/1046
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

If Londoners had not seen your 2016 manifesto, do you think they would be under the impression that you intended to plant 2 million trees based on a Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 stating ‘I’ll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor’?

• Reference: 2024/1047
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Will you accept that Tweeting ‘I’ll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor’ on 24 November 2015 was a mistake?

• Reference: 2024/1036
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

LCCI says, “Without the EV charging infrastructure for commercial vehicles – which are key to supporting and sustaining business growth in our city, it is hard to see how net zero can be attained by 2030”. Will you share further details surrounding the plans and costs for rolling out EV charging points for commercial vehicles such as HGVs?

• Reference: 2024/0819
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. Is this consistent with a Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’, with a link to a Guardian article which carried the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’?

• Reference: 2024/0820
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. When you shared a Guardian article in a Tweet on 24 November 2015 with the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’, was this article incorrect at the time of sharing?

• Reference: 2024/0821
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

The Guardian published an article on Thu 24 Sep 2015 with the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’, which you then shared on Twitter on 24 November 2015. You later stated in response to question 2024/0299 that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. Who informed the Guardian that you had set a target of 2 million trees to be planted?

• Reference: 2024/0822
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

In your 2022 book Breathe, you stated that promising to plant 2 million trees was ‘one of the biggest mistakes I made when running for mayor’. In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. If you did not make such a commitment, what was the mistake you were referring to in your book?