• 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: Len Duvall 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?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Yes, this is about health. Look, I am concerned that we are building new hospitals here, but this is not a back door way for reducing the number of beds in London. The real issue we have is the number of beds and that the hospital rebuilding programme is not used to cut the number of beds in London, because we have the lowest number of beds in Europe for the population we have. The reason I came to London Assembly was to run a campaign against the closure of [hospitals in] West London. I hope...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Chair, yes. I will rush this question, I am not sure how much time I have left. Mr Mayor, the Jewish community press today has expressed anger over the police dropping investigations into two appalling anti‑Semitic incidents, one in central London and one in Golder’s Green. We now know that although the Commissioner [of Police of the Metropolis] told us yesterday that the investigation was continuing, it has actually been dropped. We talked about trust and confidence earlier in this session. This does not help rebuild trust. Will you urgently look into this matter and get the...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. You said earlier, quite rightly, that as a result of certain actions small businesses will have to pay the price, and we have seen from the report by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) that indeed if you were to introduce the ULEZ later next year, up to one in five small businesses will be directly impacted by that and many will choose to leave London or indeed close. Do you think that is an acceptable price to pay?