• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. The original question was about small businesses and, Mr Mayor, you have talked about how you support small business in London through this very difficult time. I would like to read a quote to you from the Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) where he says, “The London Chamber is baffled that a government who once appeared to be pro-business, seems to have forgotten the essential role businesses play for our economy. 2022 was meant to be the year for business bounceback and a return to normality - and...

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

Peter Fortune AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I really support any help that can be given to small businesses, especially post-COVID. You will recall a few months ago I asked you about the Federation of Small Business (FSB) report, entitled Fair Pay, Fair Play, which talked about a number of things that you could do as Mayor. We focused especially on policies around late payments, and you said you were going to go away and read that. Did you get a chance to read it?

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Nick Rogers AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. We have been speaking about the consultation quite a bit and that is scheduled to run until 12 July [2022]. In a recent briefing for Assembly Members there was cross-party concern that that may not be long enough to have all views taken into account. We have had the [ Evening] Standard reporting today that 9,000 people have responded to the consultation so far. I do not know if you have updated figures, but that is a very small proportion of the people who will be affected by this. Do you think that...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, you have repeated this morning that these cuts are to deliver the 4% network reduction in bus kilometres required by the Government. However, the reality is that these bus cuts are the equivalent of 1.6% rather than 4% and so a further 2.4% bus cuts can be expected. Can Londoners expect these additional bus cuts as well?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Len Duvall AM: This is a very important question and I was expecting an interesting debate. There is an issue about fear of crime and how that can add to public safety awareness. There are also other issues that contribute to it. You mentioned air quality. We talked about the issue of renewing the stock on our Underground and railways. I get on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and I notice the chairs are threadbare now and I know there are going to be delays. One of the issues around what we can be doing to make London an attractive...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Len Duvall AM: On the link between value for money and fair funding you alluded to in your answer, I am particularly interested in where we are with the NICC grants issue, where we are subsidising what, in effect, we should be getting in receipt from central Government. Quite frankly, they are short‑changing Londoners and short‑changing the police and, in some ways, holding back the police from making further improvements as the Assembly Member has identified. We could reuse that money, redistribute, if we had fair funding. Where are we on those issues, given that the Government said that we...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Emma Best AM: The junk food advert ban was always set up to stop children being enticed by the adverts they saw on the network, yet the study which you have referred to several times only monitored food that came through the house of families on a weekly shop. I do not know many children who are responsible for their weekly shop; it is more that on‑the‑go food or after school that we were trying to tackle. In looking at the effectiveness of this policy, will you look into that on‑the‑go junk food that is brought outside of the house...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Krupesh Hirani AM: We are in the midst of an obesity crisis. I am glad that it is recognised by the Assembly Member there. Also on the obesity crisis, looking at the Government’s plan on addressing it, they have introduced delays into the junk food ban on television and also on buy one get one free deals in supermarkets. What are your views on the Government’s delay and what impact will it have on childhood obesity in London and across the country?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Susan Hall AM: Just very briefly, Mr Mayor, the Assembly agreed that it thought it was a good idea that you brought in a London Safety Hub. Nothing has happened with that and that would really assist here. Can you tell us whether you are going to be doing that on our recommendation or not and, if you are, when will you do that?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Len Duvall AM: Whilst the Mayor understands the previous Member’s desire not to work with developers, the clue was in your answer to the question. This is not just a few rogue people. This is an entire sector that actually has failed and governments, successive governments, have failed to keep pace with what is going on. I do agree with some of her sentiments in terms of pushing the Government further to include others; we know that. However, do you not think, in terms of this simple chant of “We must stop working with developers”, it is just not going...