• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Dr Onkar Sahota AM (Chair): Assembly Member Rogers wants to come in at this point. Nick Rogers AM: Yes, thank you, Chair. My question was going to be following a very similar line of questioning to Assembly Member Pidgeon, so it will maybe save some time and save the Mayor’s voice if I pull the question and ask as a supplementary. Mr Mayor, just picking up on some of the points that Assembly Member Pidgeon and yourself discussed, in the previous Commissioner’s letter of 4 February [2022] to you, she outlined a number of ways in which she was proposing...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. I would just like to confirm that you did choose the Commissioner Cressida Dick. You did actually choose her, but I will go on to my question or my points. The Police and Crime Plan has been published this morning. I find it somewhat disappointing that we had a PCC meeting yesterday and the timing of this was not told to any of us. Can you confirm that this new plan has taken on board comments from the PCC meeting on 1 December [2021]? I will just give you a couple. HMI’s Matt Parr said...

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Sem Moema AM: Thank you. I will be brief. I want to thank you for your update and just say that I attended last night’s first public meeting with Commander Marcus Barnett and his senior leadership team. We definitely need to move away from condemnation to what feels like a clearer action plan that can be implemented locally in this Basic Command Unit (BCU) as a matter of urgency and also across the board. I am sure others will be able to speak to that. One of the things that has been a real issue - and looking to the...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Len Duvall AM: Can I thank you for the way that you answered earlier the question relating to the experience of the young woman from Hackney and the way you have condemned it, which I think is shared by everybody around this table in terms of what took place. I want to now turn to the [Daniel] Morgan [Independent Panel] report. A number of us both publicly and privately over the years have always said we should use the Morgan reports and inquiries to do our work in a modern-day setting and use them to understand what has actually been...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. As you have mentioned, Mr Mayor, this week we have also seen Her Majesty’s Inspectorate’s (of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, HMICFRS) damning report into the MPS’s approach to tackling corruption following the [Daniel] Morgan [Independent] Panel report, which highlighted poor evidence storage, drugs going missing and officers not being vetted at the appropriate level. While I agree with what you have said - that action needs to be taken at the highest levels of the MPS to regain trust and confidence - what actions will you be taking in relation...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that update. I am glad that you have accepted the recommendations in the report in full. Part of that report was particularly damning of the shambolic approach to Transport for London (TfL) housing delivery. You have accepted in the recommendations a number of different ways in which we can approach TfL housing delivery, but this has been going on for months and communities and Assembly Members have been telling you there is a problem with engagement. Can residents now expect a real step change in how TfL consults with them and the...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: I will not go back to exactly where we had got to in that particular discussion, but I did wonder. One of the ways in which London has been treated unfairly, compared to the rest of the country, is we have a National Clean Air Fund, which has had a pretty paltry amount of money put into it by the Government in my view. We have all agreed that the measurement of London air is toxic, it is filthy - the gases, the particulate matter - and it does need to be cleaned up. You have come...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, I know that the energy crisis in this country is very important. London Power was one of the ways you wanted to lower the cost of energy consumption for Londoners. Of course, the poor housing, poor energy levels, poor heating, all has an impact on the welfare of children. The Government yesterday missed the opportunity of reducing the burden on the most vulnerable children. Can you talk to us about how the Chancellor of the Exchequer could have yesterday helped to improve the health of the children living in London, please [via the budget]?

• Question by: Peter Fortune
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Peter Fortune AM: Thank you very much, Deputy Chairman. This is a technical question about people arriving in London with two parts to it. This is something that you will have some direct influence over because it is TfL. One is the children arriving who will be going to school. Will there be TfL support for them in terms of journeys with Oyster cards and so on? It will be quite complicated to register them at addresses. The second is foreign-plated cars that might be driving over from Ukraine as well. It takes 10 days to register with TfL. Will...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Andrew Boff AM: Thank you, Deputy Chairman. I apologise for not being there in person as I am attending the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg and I regret I will soon have to leave this meeting. The Ukrainian delegation here - five brave women who had to drive for three days from Kyiv to get here to make the rest of Europe aware of the situation in their country - have asked me to extend their particular gratitude to the UK Government, British local authorities and British people in general for their generosity, support...