• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Yes. Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I note that our colleague’s figures start from 2003, although she does admit that it is the Government’s new planning regulations, which are obviously beyond your control, which mean estates are under threat. The estate regeneration ballot policy, which is very popular, is something she has tried on occasion to take credit for. Of course, Mr Mayor, you have boosted the number of council-rented homes being built since 2016. I wondered if you could give a proper comparison that will clear up any misapprehensions on her part. Thank you.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Len Duvall AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, thank you for your answers and this is a very important debate. Will you commit yourself, GLA officers and TfL officers to sitting round with key members of the London Assembly to do some verbal work on this? This is a real good example where we can do some joint work. You have a grip of the issue, despite what the Green Group says about you and your targets. We have a plan. It would be really helpful. We in the Labour Group have done a report on flooding. Can we sit round...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, from your report about the Brexit situation, can you confirm that there has been no further update or exchange between the Metropolitan Police [Service] (MPS) and the Government since the last Plenary meeting [11 December 2020] with you and the Commissioner [of Police of the Metropolis]? Do you think then that it is time to call for a disaggregation of this important European co-operation in tackling crime to be separated out from the wider agreements? At the moment, at this eleventh hour, it seems to me - I do not know if you agree -...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, good morning. Will you publish the two engineering reports that Councillor Cowan of Hammersmith and Fulham is hiding from the public and open the Bridge for cyclists and pedestrians before school reopens in January [2021], please?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much, Chair. If there is ever an abuse of process, it is laying down a question on financial performance and then talking about a member of staff. Please, you are having a laugh. Mr Mayor, can I ask you a question that concerns the financial performance and the budget issues relating to the GLA group? Can you outline to Londoners, as there are many misleading claims, and actually despicable fake information circulating and warning letters going around the communities at the moment - it has had coverage in a national newspaper about how fake...

• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Dr Alison Moore AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I just wanted to pick up this issue because it is one of the things that we have had a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about, and a lot of finger-pointing from Members about low-traffic neighbourhoods and other schemes. I just wanted to be clear, didn’t the Transport Secretary, [The Rt Hon] Grant Shapps [MP], encourage local councils to push ahead with these schemes and grant additional funding this November? Should the Member opposite actually be lobbying his own Transport Secretary about timing, instead of being disingenuous and trying to put...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Andrew Boff AM: Do you think the increased role for Homes England in your housing programme will help improve your disappointing record in building the homes Londoners need?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Florence Eshalomi AM MP: Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that answer, and again it just highlights the fact that we do need to look at how we help families. Mr Mayor, you will remember last year we went to the Peckham Pantry in Southwark to see the good work of different organisations who were effectively supporting people who were in work but having to rely on food banks. Now, just yesterday the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that for the first time they are going to be feeding children in the UK, including £25,000 going to...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Tony Arbour AM (Deputy Chairman): Yes, Mr Mayor. I think that Assembly Member Cooper was referring to me when she inferred that someone was saying that your deal with Octopus has not been terribly good. The truth of the matter is that it is not terribly good. It has taken nine months to sign up 3,000 London residents. You have invested £3 million in this, or the GLA has invested £3 million in this. This is a subsidy of £800 per person who has signed up. It has been a very poor response. I have to say - and this...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Susan Hall AM: Yes, I do. Thank you. Mr Mayor, I spoke to Ken Marsh from the Metropolitan [Police] Federation this morning and I believe he has written to you with concerns about the demonstrations this weekend. Over 800 police officers are required to police the demonstrations and it is at a time, apparently, I have been told, when more officers are off work than ever before with COVID-related issues. What are you going to do to discourage protests and protect the frontline officers at this very dangerous time? As we all know, any of us who have been on...