• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: I wanted to briefly come in after comments around recruiting and training staff that we heard earlier on because, as we know, recruiting and training staff in a transport system costs money, and that is what we do not have at the moment. I should not be surprised to hear on one hand the Conservative Assembly Members making demands of you that cost money, and on the other hand the national Conservatives seem to be deliberately withholding a deal that apparently some in this room are aware of. What I would actually like to ask - because...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Marina Ahmad AM: Mr Mayor, an additional challenge and pressure that many Londoners will face this winter is hunger. I know you have agreed with me in the past that the image of hungry children on our streets is unacceptable and particularly poignant over Christmas, as you know. With the increase in the cost of living this winter, is the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food Programme, which provides free school meals for children for only one of the two weeks of the school holiday, enough to stop children in London going hungry this Christmas? What conversations are you having with...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. Back to winter pressures, although the night-time Tube is important, especially for trying to get home from raucous parties. Also, Londoners deserve to see better discussions from us rather than where our tables and chairs are situated. Further to my colleague’s original question on winter pressures, we know that hospitals, general practices, community services and social care in London are at a breaking point at the beginning of what will be a very difficult winter. From your conversations with NHS officials in London, are you confident that the Government is taking this situation seriously...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Emma Best AM: Mr Mayor, one of the biggest winter challenges Londoners will face over the next three months is the uncertainty around the full reopening of the Night Tube, which is something we have agreed on, and the need to address this quickly. Would you be able to tell me how many staff have been recruited and trained so far in the bid to reopen the Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Susan Hall AM: One of the biggest challenges for you, Mr Mayor, and some of us Londoners over the next three months is the GLA’s move to the new City Hall, which of course you said was a decision made based on assumed savings. Please can you today confirm on which date we will move and that there will be a £61 million worth of saving over five years, which you have said before?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Emma Best AM: Just in listening to your answers and understanding your view of the market at the moment, is London Power still on track to meet the target of at least breaking even by 2024?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I could go on and on because there are some serious issues here, but I am limited for time so I will just come straight to the point. It is welcome news that new analysis from City Hall shows that all types of serious violence experienced by young people have fallen over the last four years and were falling in London before the pandemic. However, it is a concern that this research also highlights that all ten of the boroughs that you just referred to with the highest rates of victims of...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): Mr Mayor, I completely agree with your position and you have made the point of the weakness of negotiating in public. Would you agree?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Since we were just talking about TfL’s income streams and part of TfL’s income now comes from the ULEZ charge that you have just been talking about, which is also levied on charities such as the fantastic Dogs on the Streets, which I would like to raise. They run a mobile vet and they provide care for pet dogs when someone is homeless or sleeping rough. More than that, they work in partnership with the London Ambulance Service so, when someone is being taken away in the ambulance, they can provide emergency support for their pets. If...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper

Léonie Cooper AM: We discussed a motion concerning particulate pollution at the Plenary just last week, and I put an amendment down to the motion that came from the Assembly Member opposite. You have run an awareness campaign, but we still have this issue about wood burning stoves and of course the enforcement is mainly with local authorities. You have mentioned the issue of powers, so I wanted to ask you two things. One of the particular issues with wood burning stoves is if people use wet wood, and that was apparent when I went to Battersea Park recently and...