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• Reference: 2015/2215
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Will the Mayor confirm that he understands the importance of allowing councils to opt out of converting commercial premises to residential in order to maintain a mix and to continue to offer opportunities for local employment and encourage business growth?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Victoria Borwick AM MP: Thank you. Mr Mayor, just to take us back briefly to that other point, I am sure you were as delighted as I was that this Government undertook to honour Simon Stevens’ [Chief Executive Officer, NHS England] request for £8 billion in funding and to ring-fence the NHS funding. Just to put any clarification on the previous comments that were made, we have had an assurance that the NHS funding would continue and that Simon Stevens’ request will be met in full.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Are you aware that the operation of the Night Tube actually coincides with us hosting the Rugby World Cup? There will be a number of people in London who will very much welcome some extra transport facilities.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Madam. Mr Mayor, of course we have also been moving forward with the hydrogen buses and taxis, I believe, for some time with our colleague, Kit Malthouse [Kit Malthouse AM MP], very much promoting that. We have surely already a number of electric courier vans operating around London.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I just dig a bit deeper into this question of skills and the equipping of young people? You will be well aware that in my constituency, in Wandsworth, we have the massive Nine Elms [Vauxhall Nine Elms] development going on. I was pretty shocked when on one of my recent visits there to hear from some of the people running the support operation that there are terrible problems with getting the funding and getting the operation going. They are not able to lay on the supplies of skilled young people and apprentices...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Victoria Borwick AM MP: If I may, I would just like to follow on and say that there are other boroughs that are very concerned. In fact, I have a residents group in Kensington and Chelsea that is extremely dismayed that it seems to be that others are moving ahead on this agenda. I would - I think - second the points made by Mr Dismore, not all of them, but I know there are others around here who I am sure could instance their boroughs and issues with this. There seems to be subsidies and other information for other...

• Reference: 2015/1961
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Last week it was revealed that there were over 3,000 train journeys where Londoners could have claimed compensation because their train was late or cancelled. But only 15% of people who could claim actually did. Do you think that train operators and TfL should do more to promote the fact that commuters can receive compensation for late or cancelled journeys?

• Reference: 2015/1962
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

The Government will introduce both a 50% turnout threshold and a 40% support threshold on strike action on public transport. What effect do you believe this would have on the ongoing negotiations to agree pay and conditions for workers on the Night Tube?

• Reference: 2015/1990
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

The Olympic legacy and our work towards making London an 'Age Friendly' city have strengthened our reputation as one of the world's friendliest cities. How can we utilise our reputation to bolster London's global influence?

• Reference: 2015/1991
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Local residents in Knightsbridge are often blighted during the summer months by drivers in supercars who behave in an anti-social way, and have a complete disregard for the rules of the road. As we approach the summer, when the majority of these instances occur, what more can the Metropolitan Police Service do to crack down on drivers using some areas of London as their own personal race course?