• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. Mr Mayor, I noted your answer to the Chair’s lead-off question, but can I ask you if you can be more specific and use some examples of how your new Police and Crime Plan will address the challenges we face in London today? Looking back, what do you feel are the key achievements of the 2016 to 2021 Police and Crime Plan?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, I know you are aware of the great work going on in Iceland reducing violence and murder. I mentioned it to you informally earlier this year. Between 2005 and 2018, Iceland recorded just 24 murders. Over the same time period, London recorded 1,862 murders. I know Iceland is much smaller than London, but even so, Iceland had 67 murders per million people in that time compared to London’s 210 per million people; that is three times as many in London. I am wondering if you have looked at what police are doing in other countries, particularly...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Mr Mayor, it has been shown that there is a link between misogynistic attitudes and extremism. What more work do you think needs to go into deradicalising those with deeply misogynistic views and what are you doing from City Hall in this area?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: The LFB does an excellent job of fire safety outreach with businesses and schools. Will you push for similar work for flooding prevention outreach?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Sem Moema AM: I just want to first start by saying how mortified I am by the conduct of Members today, especially when we had so many people here who had come along to observe this last meeting of the Assembly in this place. It is shameful to those young people who were sitting here today to see a demonstration of democracy and the way that this Assembly has conducted itself, and the way that this meeting has been chaired. With that in mind and in the spirit of the manifesto commitments, I wanted to ask you, Mr Mayor, in...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: The previous Mayor promised to eradicate rough sleeping by 2012 and it doubled in the last five years of his mayoralty. He promised there would be staffed ticket offices at every station and then closed all of London’s ticket offices. He denied that he had plans to cut fire engines or stations, and then closed ten fire stations and removed 27 fire engines from office. It is really surprising that at this MQT the party opposite has decided to talk about transparency given what is happening with the corruption scandal in Parliament that mars their party as...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. In both of your manifestos, you made commitments to tackle the gender pay gap in London. Is it a source of personal regret to you, then, that both the gender pay gap has increased under your mayoralty as well as the ethnic minority pay gap?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): Good morning, Mr Mayor. Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): Hi. Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): You seem to be enjoying this afternoon. Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): It was still morning the last time I checked. Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): That is true, yes. That is very true. It must feel like a very long one, too. Earlier you quite rightly mentioned your work on cleaning up the air in London, and also you mentioned taxis specifically as part of that work that you are doing in having cleaner taxis and so on and...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. In your manifesto - I will say that twice for Assembly Member Cooper’s benefit - in your manifesto, with regard to Hammersmith Bridge, you said you will continue to work with local authorities to deliver the ferry. There is no ferry. The ferry has been put on hold, understandably. Could you please update me in reference to where we are going with Hammersmith Bridge, please? I am sure everybody would have seen in The Economist article of last week that London’s bridges are falling down. We do not need this bad publicity. Thank...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Good morning. In your 2016 manifesto, you spoke repeatedly about being the most pro-business Mayor that London has ever had, and you repeated that language in your 2021 manifesto. I just wonder whether the most pro-business Mayor that London has ever seen would introduce a boundary charge cutting off businesses, customers and suppliers in outer London from the people that they need and the people that they serve just over the boundary.