• Question by: Bassam Mahfouz
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Bassam Mahfouz AM: Thank you, Chair, and if I could welcome Stanhope Primary School, I know in fact they are used to far more mature debate in their own school, great to have you here. Mr Mayor, I just want to correct you to start off with, you celebrated Crystal Palace, you celebrated Tottenham Hotspur, but Chelsea Women’s team made it a treble on Sunday [18 May 2025] as well and in fact beating another Manchester team on Sunday, therefore another thing to celebrate, west is best on that front too. Very quickly, we did have a question from Assembly...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, the original question, although we seem to have got lost in everyone else’s questions that they are bringing up from the end of the Order Paper of questions, is about your manifesto commitments. Just to help you, because we seem to have a problem, I wonder if you would like me to remind you of when the Conservative Peer, Assembly Member Lord Bailey, has broken ranks to call for new housing to be built all over the protected Green Belt, “There is a housing crisis in London”, he said, “someone...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Neil Garratt AM: Morning. Nationally, [The Rt Hon] Ed Miliband [Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero] is obviously aiming to achieve net zero over 25 years and there has been some debate about the cost of achieving that. In your manifesto, you set out to make London a net zero carbon city, not in 25 years, but in five years. Do you think you have been clear with Londoners that the cost of achieving your ambition is about £5,700 per London household per year?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Keith Prince AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Congratulations, Chair. Nice to see that most teams in Lancashire are being beaten by London! Unfortunately, as you well know, one of them particularly successful. Anyway, would you agree, Mr Mayor, that in your manifesto you pledged to unleash a public transport revolution in outer London. How do you square that with TfL’s discriminatory and divisive changes to the W12, 13, 14 and 549 bus routes, which have had severe negative consequences for my constituency in Redbridge since they were imposed on 7 September [2024]. Unfortunately, you will not have a briefing on...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. One final question from me is you have pledged many times your support for the reduction in winter fuel allowance and the ending of the universal offer. Now that the Government looks like it is U-turning on that, will you again pledge that you would like to see that return to everybody, all pensioners? Will you be part of the calls to make sure that is now a fair offer next winter?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning, Mr Mayor. One of your commitments in your manifesto was to end rough sleeping for good by 2030. Obviously, since your time as Mayor, we have just seen that figure rise, it is now a record high, it has almost doubled since you came to power. One of the consequences of that being we are now seeing these large encampments, one for example in Park Lane, TfL applying for the possession order in the Central London County Court today [22 May 2025]. I suppose that is an action that you would agree with...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Good morning, Mayor. I see you are on good form this morning! When it comes to listening to Londoners, you could probably argue that housing is one of the biggest calls and you are on record constantly talking about your record delivery and we have heard it before, and I am sure you will give a rendition now. You also have two years of record low delivery, two records that I feel that you should be ashamed of and should be addressing. In 2023/24 you [delivered] the lowest number of affordable houses and, in 2024/25...

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Zoë Garbett AM: Thank you, Chair. I am really looking forward to giving my views through the consultation and it is a consultation that I wanted to raise a concern about. The accessible formats are only available on request and not as standard on the website, which is not best practice. I just wondered if they can be made available as soon as possible and there is a bit of a concern about the short consultation window.

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. Just briefly on the TfL disruption on 12 May, a follow-up on the power outage. Many passengers were caught up in the disruption and we have had complaints effectively saying the communication was not as good as it could have been. Would you ask TfL to review what could have been done better and come back to us on that?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Hina Bokhari OBE AM: Thank you, and congratulations to our new Chair. Mr Mayor, do you think the language that the Prime Minister used that migration was a squalid chapter was dangerous or not?