• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. What fun. Mr Mayor, talking of regrets, do you regret the way that too many Londoners have been let down by your Solar Together London scheme?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Morning, Mr Mayor, and thank you for your answer, but in your answer, I did not hear you mention the plight of the Black community. You have been Mayor for six years now and in that time 355 members of the Black community have been murdered. In fact, we are four times more likely to be murdered than our neighbours. Surely you regret that, on your watch?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. We are talking about regretting things, Mr Mayor, and you have been in charge, as you know, for six years. Do you regret that the MPS has been placed under special measures for the first time in its history?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much. It is just on the issue about supporting campaign groups in London. I feel that we ran out of time when Assembly Member Best was raising a really important issue earlier on. I have had another look at her original question, and it just says, “How can we work together?” It does not mention a specific group. I just wondered if perhaps Assembly Member Best and I could be in contact with your staff so that we could give some consideration as to whether or not that is a campaign that we could...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. The new Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, brings vast experience in operational policing, but the MPS’s toxic culture and organisational failings cannot be resolved just by a change at the top alone. It requires the input of experts in change management. Will you agree to appoint experts in organisational and cultural change to the MPS’s management board to ensure the new Commissioner gets the expert support and advice needed to deliver the radical change required?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, as you know, Neurodiversity in Business is an organisation that is actively looking to address the employment prospects of autistic and other neurodiverse Londoners. Back in May [2022] I asked you to meet them, and you expressed some enthusiasm to do so. They have yet to hear from your office and I wonder when that will be rectified.

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. This year London will receive £33 million from the Government’s Holiday, Activity and Food Programme. That equates to 16.5% of the total spend for the UK and so it is very good news for London. The holiday provision, as I am sure you know, is for children aged from reception to year 11 who are in receipt of benefit-related free school meals. Will you commit this summer to going out and visiting one of those programmes at one of those clubs delivering that across London to see how that programme is being rolled out...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Mr Mayor, you mentioned your affordable housing programme. Can you confirm that you will meet the target of 116,000 affordable housing starts funded by the £4.82 billion in Government grants by March 2023?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Given that the Tube workers have been awarded an 8.4% wage increase, given that the employer, ie taxpayers basically, pay 31% of contributions into their pension, and given that they get free passes for their households for free travel as well as themselves, do you think that TfL were justified in striking on Tuesday?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Elly Baker AM: Morning, Mr Mayor. I obviously agree with you, as you know, and share your concern about the silence from Government on the TfL deal so close to the deadline once again. This morning I saw that yesterday, 15 leading businesses and civil society organisations wrote to [the Rt Hon] Grant Shapps [MP] and [the Rt Hon] Rishi Sunak [MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer] talking about the precipitous fall in the Government’s support for TfL and calling for a deal and saying that for the foreseeable future it is clear that support from Government is needed to maintain...