Following her nomination as the candidate for the May 2016 mayoral election, watch Caroline Pidgeon's speech to the Lib Dem conference, bringing the Lib Dem Fightback to London.
Caroline Pidgeon AM, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on the internal audit of the procurement design and development services for the Garden Bridge said:
"This audit has sadly not been thorough and forensic.
“While it rightly highlights a number of areas where the process for awarding contracts needs to improve the audit is ultimately incomplete due to TfL destroying vital records.
Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon said she would fight for a London which served the many, and not the few.
The party announced Caroline - who is a member of the London Assembly - as its candidate for next year’s London Mayoral election.
Caroline said:
“London is a great city, but the huge potential it offers is not available to everyone.
As reports suggest that the Metropolitan Police is considering scrapping 1000 Police Community Support Officers working in London's neighbourhoods, Caroline Pidgeon has written to the Met's Commissioner expressing strong support for PCSOs:
On Anthony Davis's latest Underground London Radio podcast, Caroline Pidgeon talks about her campaign to be the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, the Garden Bridge, the new London bus, and the need for a serious Mayor.
Caroline Pidgeon, along with Val Shawcross, has been voted the joint Cycling Champion of the Year by the London Cycling Campaign's members, in recognition of her work holding the Mayor and Transport for London to account on cycling issues and for her work on the London Assembly Transport Committee.
Read about the awards on the London Cycling Campaign website.
London Live filmed the launch of Caroline Pidgeon's campaign to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. Speaking at a nursery school in Islington, Caroline outlined her key priority of making childcare work for working parents:
Lib Dem London Assembly members Caroline Pidgeon and Stephen Knight visited Battersea Dogs Home to support its campaign against the abuse of dogs by unlicensed breeders. The campaign calls on the government to tighten the requirements for licensing and to ban the sale of puppies under eight weeks old.
Caroline Pidgeon AM, Liberal Democrat London Assembly transport spokesperson, commenting on reports that Transport for London are now considering removing buses from Oxford Street said:
“Transport for London’s new thinking of Oxford Street is long overdue. The case for pedestrianising Oxord Street has never been stronger.
New evidence has revealed that in many parts of London there has been an alarming rise in the number of vulnerable children who have gone missing from the care of our local authorities in the last year.