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2 Million Trees Target (4)

  • Reference: 2024/0822
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
In your 2022 book Breathe, you stated that promising to plant 2 million trees was ‘one of the biggest mistakes I made when running for mayor’. In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. If you did not make such a commitment, what was the mistake you were referring to in your book?

2 Million Trees Target (3)

  • Reference: 2024/0821
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
The Guardian published an article on Thu 24 Sep 2015 with the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’, which you then shared on Twitter on 24 November 2015. You later stated in response to question 2024/0299 that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. Who informed the Guardian that you had set a target of 2 million trees to be planted?

2 Million Trees Target (2)

  • Reference: 2024/0820
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. When you shared a Guardian article in a Tweet on 24 November 2015 with the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’, was this article incorrect at the time of sharing?

2 Million Trees Target (1)

  • Reference: 2024/0819
  • Question by: Tony Devenish
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
In response to question 2024/0299 you stated that you ‘did not set a target of 2 million trees to be planted’. Is this consistent with a Tweet you sent on 24 November 2015 in which you stated ‘I'll plant 2m trees in London in my first term as Mayor - with a focus around our schools’, with a link to a Guardian article which carried the headline ‘Sadiq Khan promises to plant 2m trees in London if elected mayor’?

Affordable Homes Programme

  • Reference: 2024/0818
  • Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
How many homes do you expect to start in the current financial year from the £4bn 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme?

OPDC government funding

  • Reference: 2024/0817
  • Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
Following the government grant of £53m to Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) from the Brownfield Infrastructure and Land Fund, how many homes do you expect to deliver with this money? When will these new homes be started and completed?

synthetic opioids

  • Reference: 2024/0816
  • Question by: Nick Rogers
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
For each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 how many times were synthetic opioids detected in drugs tested by the Met?

Ketamine (5)

  • Reference: 2024/0815
  • Question by: Nick Rogers
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
For each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 how many times was ketamine in drugs tested by the Met?

Ketamine (4)

  • Reference: 2024/0814
  • Question by: Nick Rogers
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
Do you know how many ketamine-related admissions to A&E departments in London have there been annually since 2016?

Ketamine (3)

  • Reference: 2024/0813
  • Question by: Nick Rogers
  • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
Do you know the estimated cost to the healthcare system in London of ketamine use since 2016?
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