• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much, Chair. London’s markets are part of our history and add to the vibrancy and cultural diversity of our city, as well as being a significant part of the economy, particularly in areas like the East End. I wrote to the Deputy Mayor for Business just last week with concerns market traders have over their future in many parts of London.First, my question to Councillor Gould, as you are a Board Member of the LEAP and with your work on the Recovery Taskforce: I am aware money has been made available to small...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning to all our guests. I would just like to finish this point about the cultural industry in London, because of course we have a visitor economy, and this is basically what those people are visiting: our huge variety of culture and the scale of the culture. What kind of intervention are we looking for in monetary terms? If we are approaching the Government and asking for more money, can we give that a figure? Can we give it a ballpark? What kind of monies are we talking about? Why don’t I start with Philip and...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you very much, Mr Chair. Good morning to the panel. My question I think I have to ask you all, and maybe someone can answer it. It is just about London’s - if you want to call it - cultural industry. I do not mean by that necessarily the creative industry. I mean in terms of theatre, in terms of performing arts, in terms of all the things that make up a huge part of London life and, of course, the economy. What are your views on the future of that? How do you see that...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, everyone. Thank you to this huge panel for joining us. I am only sorry I am not going to be able to ask questions to all of you, because there are things that I would like to ask each of you. There are a lot of representatives here from businesses and industry, and I want to make sure that we keep in mind today the people who are not in the meeting. That is the workers, the recently unemployed, the furloughed and the young people that this crisis is hitting the...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My question is to Jordan. Thanks very much for that introductory statement. Small and large businesses have had to adapt their business models, as you were pointing out, and all of their ways of working to deal with the pandemic situation since March. However, from September, they face the prospect of having to change their business models again to adapt to the changes that will come at the end of December with the no-deal Brexit. Carolyn Fairbairn [Director-General, CBI] has had a lot to say about the Brexit situation. I just wondered...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. Morning, both. Deputy Mayor, there cannot be anybody around this table who was not horrified by the Cultural Review; some of us thought that it would be bad, but some of the things that were reported were absolutely disgraceful. Now, as normal, we ask for the Mayor to attend Plenary meetings because he is ultimately responsible politically. He always refuses, although he has told me once, “Just pick up the phone and I will attend meetings.” The reason he is not here today, he says, is because he has been summonsed by us on three occasions and therefore...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

Thank you. I just want to start by recognising that the Fire Commissioner’s openness and honesty has been really appreciated by all of us in the wake of the Culture Review and the acceptance that you have given the 23 recommendations by Nazir Afzal [OBE, Chair, Independent Review into Culture of London Fire Brigade]. You also publicly apologised to Jaden Francois-Esprit’s mum, Linda, out there at the last FREP Committee meeting on Tuesday. However, Linda has said that she still feels that no one has been held accountable for Jaden’s death, and that the full extent of the trauma that...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 09 February 2023

London needs you to deliver a brigade that is trusted to serve and protect our city, but with that, we need to have a workplace where all Londoners feel they can work and thrive, regardless of their background. Can you deliver this?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 January 2023

Andrew Boff AM: Yes. You said, Mr Mayor, that you could not be more proud of the work that you have done on rough sleeping. Could you write to me and indicate how much of the funds on rough sleeping come from Government and how much are locally sourced?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Len Duvall AM: You spoke of the plummeting temperatures this week, and of course we are not out of the woods yet; January and February [2023] both also look pretty grim. Combined with an economic cost of living crisis, it will be difficult. Can you also pay tribute to the public sector workers that carry on working during these adverse weather conditions and think about the emergency services, transport workers, local council workers, and postal workers who deliver our services during these difficult times?