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• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, in the past you have said that you would wish to see the increase in the proportion of TfL’s budget spent on cycling. Your predecessor planned to spend about 1.44% in this budget year. The Assembly has done a scrutiny report that said, really, it should be up to 2% to bring us in line with other pro-cycling cities. What do you think? What do you hope to devote to cycling by the end of your first term?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr Mayor, for clarifying in answer to Assembly Member Kurten’s question that your ambitions for modal shift will lead to reductions in that traffic aspect. I want to bring you back to a question around devolution. I, like you, share the aspirations of devolution, but there are limitations to it. Your ambition for Healthy Streets, if we devolved some of the TfL budget for that and left it to the boroughs, would not happen, Mr Mayor. Would you agree with me that there are limits to devolution of those issues if...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

One of the issues I wanted to raise, and I think Elizabeth Howlett alluded to this, is that there is no commitment for extra beat officers under the Conservative proposals. But what happens if you do strip out resources from some of the essential services, such as the Serious Crime Squad, to fund community policing as Richard Barnes outlined and that we are all meant to be supportive of, although some of us do not want to pay for it?