• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Nicholas Rogers AM: We have to bring the question of keeping Londoners safe perhaps to a more local level. Many of my constituents in Richmond are deeply worried about crime in the community at present. Tragically, as I am sure you are aware, last week there was a murder in central Richmond in broad daylight. This has compounded residents’ existing concerns after some very serious antisocial behaviour incidents around Richmond Green and the riverside following the previous lockdown easing last summer. Given these - entirely justifiable, entirely understandable - concerns, and given the previous decision to close Richmond Police Station...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Susan Hall AM: Congratulations, Mr Mayor, on your reappointment. On a more specific issue of the safety of Londoners, I wanted to ask you about the safety of Jewish Londoners in light of the horrific instances of antisemitism that we have seen in the city these last few weeks. I was contacted last night by the London Jewish Forum regarding really harrowing incidents of police just standing by while antisemitic abuse was shouted from crowds and protests. They are extremely concerned that what is happening is that the police are effectively just containing this verbal abuse, rather than actively stopping...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Zack Polanski AM: Mr Mayor, have you now come around to lobbying for a basic income as the Assembly has?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to ask a question about the vigil for Sarah Everard. Did your office have any communication with the police about how it would be policed?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, despite Andy Byford [Commissioner of Transport for London] effectively saying cash will be back at some point on the Tube, I am aware that TfL has now commissioned research on the role of cash payments. With around 260,000 adult Londoners without a bank account and of course many young people without one, the evidence is already there. Will you rule out the Underground going permanently cashless under your watch as Mayor?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I would just like to say to you, my good friend’s son was murdered less than a month ago in London. You have said the streets are unsafe for women and girls in London. That is why I continue to speak about crime, because you have been absent when people’s lives have been taken on the streets of London. For you to suggest it is just about politics, for me it is about people’s lives, of the life of a friend, a close friend of mine whose son was murdered...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Steve O'Connell AM: Yes, I have, Chair. I am happy to eat modestly into my remaining time. Very much we should remember Sarah [Everard] and make the streets safer for women in London. Also, I very much comment on the loss of young men in Croydon, as was referred to by Tony Devenish [AM], an awful weekend, Mr Mayor, for Croydon and young people. I have joined in with Unmesh [Desai AM] and others in seeking increased funding for London police. But I would stress, having said all that, that political leadership is about responsibility. You go to Londoners to...

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

Unmesh Desai AM: Mr Mayor, I really have to ask you this in light of what Assembly Member Devenish has just said. I make no apologies for asking this supplementary question, even though you have already answered it to a large extent. Can you just remind my colleagues across the Chamber of the cuts to the police service that you inherited from your predecessor, including how many police stations he closed? I know you have already done that, but now that he is Prime Minister, we have seen the cuts to police funding from Government continue. The MPS has faced...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Mr Mayor, you touched on some of the things that I wanted to get to in this follow-up, but you decided to enter into this area of giving Londoners the opportunity for access to cheap, clean and green energy. It is not something that was done by any of your predecessors, who did indeed waste £38 million on a garden bridge that was neither a garden nor a bridge and does not exist. Money has gone into this at this very early stage. It is a new start-up. You decided to do it as a white label...

• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Dr Alison Moore AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I just wanted to pick up the issue as an outer London person, picking up from Assembly Member O’Connell. What has been the impact of COVID-19 on your plans to support transport in outer London and does this highlight the need for a sustainable long-term TfL funding deal from the Government, perhaps returning the £700 million annual operating grant that [The Rt Hon] Boris Johnson [MP, Prime Minister, former Mayor of London] took away?