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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Roger Evans AM: Commissioner, eight years ago the project to introduce step‑free access at Newbury Park Station was shelved. Whereabouts is that currently in TfL’s in‑tray? Is it towards the bottom or the top?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Boff AM: First of all, Mr Mayor, you know my views on the Garden Bridge ‑ I think it should be called ’the garden path’ ‑ but I abhor the attacks on officers that have been made in this chamber today. If people want to attack something, they should attack you. That is what you are there for. I do abhor them and I do not wish to be associated with those attacks on officers. Mr Brown, we know that the step‑free access programme is a very expensive programme but it is something that Londoners want to see because...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I would like to ask the Mayor about the advertisements on the Tube for tourism in northern Cyprus and whether they will be continuing in the future. Do you accept that they have caused widespread distress and serious offence to the Greek Cypriots in London and my constituents? The advertisements mislead the public, who might not realise that many of the businesses that would benefit from this tourism are on illegally expropriated land and that the airport in northern Cyprus does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) safety standards either.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Given that this is my final TfL plenary it would be remiss of me not to go through the annual ritual of raising step‑free access at a particular Tube station that has more people passing through it than Gatwick Airport every year, which is of course South Kensington. This is probably my eighth attempt to try to get some movement on this particular issue. I wondered if any progress had been made on allowing disabled people, people with prams and other vehicles that would like to access those incredible cultural assets, as well as the residents...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Len Duvall AM: This will be a humdinger, then. Mr Mayor, 2000 and 2008 there was a 34% increase in bus kilometres. You, under your watch, for a period of 2008 to 2016 can barely make less than 4.5% in bus kilometres. Why have you not expanded the bus fleet despite the growth in London’s population of 11.24% over the same period?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Richard Tracey AM: This is a question for the Commissioner. Commissioner, I really do appreciate the direction of travel that we have been hearing about, but do you not think it would be a good idea if drivers, when they are changing over on the streets, were to shut off their engines? There are examples we have noticed in Putney High Street, in my constituency, where there are particular pollution problems and it is very unhelpful if the drivers do leave the engines running for three or four minutes while the do the changeover.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: The particular routes I am concerned about, Mr Mayor, are those that are going to be affected by Conservative Hertfordshire County Council’s decision to cut £390,000 from those services, on top of the £1.5 million they cut last year, which threatens a number of outer London bus routes, which criss-cross my constituency and outer London and in and out of Hertfordshire - including the 142, 292, 298, 107 and 258. These routes are all affected and are essential to outer London residents.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you. The Mayor has just said there would be a plan to cut £2 billion from TfL by another candidate, whose name I will not mention. I have seen media reports of £1.9 billion, which the media have been attributing to TfL. I would like to ask the Commissioner, Mr Brown, is that a figure, either the £2 billion or the £1.9 billion that TfL has come up with? Was it from a TfL source? Do you own that figure? Then I would like to ask you about the assumptions behind it.