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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: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Brown. My question is for you, sir. I am delighted that you think you can juggle so many balls in terms of the efficiency savings, in terms of the operational requirements of the network and in terms of extracting - as particularly my question is to do with - the land value in your brownfield estate. You may be interested to hear that yesterday Deputy Mayor Murray [James Murray, Deputy Mayor for Housing] sat in this very room and he talked about lower land values to achieve the 50% affordable target that the Mayor...

• 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...