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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I do not like to call people liars, so I am going to say I think we have had some misrepresentation this morning. I am just wondering if we could clear up a couple of misrepresentations. You have not actually paid any money into trade union bank accounts, have you? You have made money available for TfL to pay its staff.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Chair. Talking of new year resolutions, will you resolve to continue to lobby the Government to provide proper funding for London rather than relying on increased council tax in order to support vital public services which are all facing unprecedented pressures?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Len Duvall AM: This year, you have managed to exceed your delivery targets on affordable housing despite the challenging economic climate. London is also building more council homes than the rest of the country. The Government, on the other hand, has missed its targets by several thousand. What do you intend to do in terms of the coming year? Is it more of the same or are you going to raise your game even further by exceeding those targets in the coming years if you are able to?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: I am sorry, Chair. No, I am fine. Assembly Member Devenish has probably covered it. Maybe, actually, Mr Mayor, talking about removing trees, when we are looking at difficult situations like dangerous junctions, would you agree with me that it is always essential for TfL to make sure that it does approach these difficult decisions, looking at it in the round? It is considering SuDS, for example, in relation to its roads, the climate emergency, the urban heat island effect, and it takes that into consideration and then do replanting if it is thinking of taking things...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Len Duvall AM: In the list of successes and achievements in terms of what you have contributed to City Hall, there was a gap. You missed something out, which I thought was important - others may not think so because they would like to forget - when you protected Londoners and particularly those who were involved in the TfL/Government debacle when the Government tried to force you to include a Congestion Charge across all of London at a higher charge. You resisted it because you believed it was too high. Is that correct? But you also did something else, again...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, is it conceivable that Project 2030 is a number of projects and not just one singular project? You alluded to procurements. I do not know if you have that information. I would be happy to receive it in written form, but if you can speak to it now?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair, and I am grateful to Assembly Member Rogers for raising the issue of the administration of the scrappage scheme. I am sure loads of us with constituencies are doing quite a lot of casework on a variety of things. I had a very strange case where someone in my constituency was told that her car, which I have seen her driving, was not in fact a vehicle and therefore she was not able to claim the scrappage scheme, which was quite hilarious. She sent me the email. I was able to resolve that...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor, in the way that you answered that question. Information is quite important to get out there, because there are a lot of misunderstandings. You have made it clear in terms of the tolling, but if we did not proceed with the tolling, if ever that was an option, what would the options be in terms of replacement monies for not having tolls?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor. I just wanted to focus on this issue about fairness. I wondered if you thought that encouraging employers to pay the London Living Wage, would you say that is fair to try to increase the National Minimum Wage to the London Living Wage, and yet there is someone present in this room who said, “This would be the most damaging to the lowest skilled and lowest paid whose skills and value to the employers do not meet the London Living Wage”?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I would like to bring us back to the original question, which was about taking responsibility. I just wondered if you might agree with me that all politicians, whether they be mayors or Assembly Members, should take responsibility for making sure that they do not mislead Londoners? Quoting randomly from emails from 2018 that were actually about the LEZ and implying that they are about the central London, inner London or Greater London ULEZ is misleading and people should reflect on that and not mislead Londoners.