• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Zack Polanski AM: My question is also for the Deputy Mayor. Deputy Mayor, I am certain that like myself and so many people ‑ in fact, everyone in this room ‑ you have been horrified by the nightly images we have seen on the news and on social media of the invasion of Ukraine, and I hope you will join me in saying loud and clear that refugees are welcome here. That is purely for humanitarian reasons. What I would love you to speak on, though, is what benefits new arrivals can have to London, to lift up our economy.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Andrew Boff AM: Is it important to complete the JCVI priority list as is? To Tom Coffey.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Len Duvall AM: I just want to thank Tom Coffey for the way he answered Councillor [Tony] Devenish [AM] and Shaun Bailey’s [AM] questions. We do have to differentiate between the vulnerable and those that are playing on their fears with fake information, because we know this fake information and this very professionally organised information will cost lives. If people are taken in by misinformation, wrong information, people will die on the back of it. Chair, I hope we can go offline and help and support the Mayor of London and Government in combatting the sinister nature of some of...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Susan Hall AM: Thank you, and good morning. I will address the first one to Dr Coffey. Going on from what my colleague, Assembly Member Bailey, was saying, one of the problems we obviously have is that some of the anti-vaxxers genuinely believe what they are saying. I know there is a lot of mischief going on, but some of them do. Is there any prospect or is anybody thinking of getting them on to Zoom calls and saying, “Right, you throw what you are saying to me and we will explain to you why it is not correct”? We...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. I will talk to Dr Tom. I really want to follow up on Assembly Member Devenish’s question around what is being done to look at where this misinformation is coming from. There are certain communities, certainly my own, that actually feel like we are under attack. It feels like a very deliberate, very concerted effort to put this misinformation out into our community and I wonder if there is any work being done. I take your comment that it might be slightly outside of your purview, but can you go back and ask for...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Deputy Mayor, how do we ensure that London’s economic recovery is a fair recovery that reaches all Londoners and provides targeted support to London’s most vulnerable communities?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Hina Bokhari AM: All my questions will be for the Deputy Mayor for Business. London’s street markets, small businesses and high streets are a vital part of the fabric of London’s culture and economy. They showcase the diversity of our city and provide a place that we can all meet, integrate and do business. We must do all we can to support them and to help them thrive. Last month [February 2022], the Mayor announced a £10 million budget to attract more tourists - as you were mentioning before - back into the capital, which includes a domestic and international...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 03 March 2022

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning, Deputy Mayor. Thank you for joining us remotely this morning. You have spoken just now about London’s recovery from the pandemic, which is ongoing. The question was about the challenges facing London’s business community, and obviously one of them is the one that you have faced yourself in not being able to come in here this morning because of the strikes. The Mayor promised zero days in strikes if he were elected in 2016, and I believe he now has more [days of strike] than the previous mayors combined. Can you give us a sense...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Len Duvall AM: If I can just go back over some of the issues, if we set aside some of the challenges in terms of service delivery that you have, we know we have the Government thing and the feds do not really understand us and never really supported some of our services. It does not matter, regardless of political persuasion, there is always that tension. We now have regional politicians and the likes of the Mayor [of London] and Fiona Twycross giving the resources that they can provide to you in terms of the service. In that sense, you...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 10 February 2022

Emma Best AM: Thanks, Fiona and Andy, for what has been a very transparent session so far today. My question to you is whether you could explain to me the capacity the fire department has to respond to planning applications and procedurally how that works for you when those applications come in.