• 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...

• 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...