• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. The new Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, brings vast experience in operational policing, but the MPS’s toxic culture and organisational failings cannot be resolved just by a change at the top alone. It requires the input of experts in change management. Will you agree to appoint experts in organisational and cultural change to the MPS’s management board to ensure the new Commissioner gets the expert support and advice needed to deliver the radical change required?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, as you know, Neurodiversity in Business is an organisation that is actively looking to address the employment prospects of autistic and other neurodiverse Londoners. Back in May [2022] I asked you to meet them, and you expressed some enthusiasm to do so. They have yet to hear from your office and I wonder when that will be rectified.

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. This year London will receive £33 million from the Government’s Holiday, Activity and Food Programme. That equates to 16.5% of the total spend for the UK and so it is very good news for London. The holiday provision, as I am sure you know, is for children aged from reception to year 11 who are in receipt of benefit-related free school meals. Will you commit this summer to going out and visiting one of those programmes at one of those clubs delivering that across London to see how that programme is being rolled out...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Mr Mayor, you mentioned your affordable housing programme. Can you confirm that you will meet the target of 116,000 affordable housing starts funded by the £4.82 billion in Government grants by March 2023?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Given that the Tube workers have been awarded an 8.4% wage increase, given that the employer, ie taxpayers basically, pay 31% of contributions into their pension, and given that they get free passes for their households for free travel as well as themselves, do you think that TfL were justified in striking on Tuesday?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Elly Baker AM: Morning, Mr Mayor. I obviously agree with you, as you know, and share your concern about the silence from Government on the TfL deal so close to the deadline once again. This morning I saw that yesterday, 15 leading businesses and civil society organisations wrote to [the Rt Hon] Grant Shapps [MP] and [the Rt Hon] Rishi Sunak [MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer] talking about the precipitous fall in the Government’s support for TfL and calling for a deal and saying that for the foreseeable future it is clear that support from Government is needed to maintain...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, do you accept that there are some people ‑‑ for example, you heard about Dogs On The Streets and how they can access the scrappage scheme because that simply will not get them the vehicle they need to replace. I have spoken to so many people, disabled Londoners, large families, people who do private chauffeuring, small businesses with vans and business vehicles. That scrappage scheme will not allow them to continue their business. Do you understand the disconnect there with the point that has been made with what Londoners on the ground...

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Peter Fortune AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I recognise the mathematical argument that Assembly Member Cooper was putting forward. If you add up the daily charge of £12.50, then after a time it gets to a bigger figure with which you can buy a car. However, the suggestion seemed to be that a lot of Londoners would already have that money in the bank, which further suggests then that a way around this could just be to buy a new car. I know that is an assertion you put forward yourself and I know you understandably backed...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. It is just on the issue of whether or not it is possible to afford an alternative vehicle, which Assembly Member Garratt said people cannot. If you do the calculation of £12.50 a day, five days a week, let us say 46 weeks a year with six weeks of holiday, that works out as a payment of £2,875. I will not name particular outlets, but we all know that there are trader magazines where you can go and look for second-hand vehicles that would comply with the current level of the ULEZ that are...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. Speaking of transport in outer London, I have been contacted by lots of residents in Sutton and Croydon about your Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) consultation, which is currently ongoing until 29 July [2022], I believe. They are worried about what that expansion will mean because they cannot afford to pay £12.50 a day to use their car, they cannot afford to replace their car with a car that does not incur that charge, and they cannot get to work or do their daily journeys any other way. What do you suggest that they do?