• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Emma Best AM: That was a really good question there, Assembly Member Clarke, but I saw that the Mayor did not have any problems answering that statement.

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Anne Clarke AM: Yes, thank you, Chair. As somebody who serves as a local councillor, I very much appreciate local democracy. I was just really confused why it is that the Barnet Conservatives have highlighted a number of carparks as places that we could intensify housing, and then their own Conservative MP turns up outside City Hall to protest about Finchley Central and High Barnet stations, which initially turned up on the Barnet Local Plan supported by Tory Barnet councillors, and then all of a sudden we have the Barnet Tories protesting outside City Hall to save carparks. I am...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Susan Hall AM: Mr Mayor, how does it help London’s housing shortage to continually waste time and resources on proposing ugly tower blocks on suburban TfL carparks such as the Canons Park scheme that was recently rejected by the planning inspector?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Unmesh Desai AM: Good afternoon, Mr Mayor. I do not know if this is the final question to the Mayor of 2021 but, since we have some time left, Mr Mayor, I want to flag up three issues and then come to my question. Firstly, the anti-racist cricket initiative that I asked you about, or mentioned, at the last MQT is on course to be launched sometime in January [2022] and your office is aware of what we are doing. Secondly, on what you said about domestic violence: report, report, report. We must get it out. I know the reasons...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: I wanted to briefly come in after comments around recruiting and training staff that we heard earlier on because, as we know, recruiting and training staff in a transport system costs money, and that is what we do not have at the moment. I should not be surprised to hear on one hand the Conservative Assembly Members making demands of you that cost money, and on the other hand the national Conservatives seem to be deliberately withholding a deal that apparently some in this room are aware of. What I would actually like to ask - because...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Marina Ahmad AM: Mr Mayor, an additional challenge and pressure that many Londoners will face this winter is hunger. I know you have agreed with me in the past that the image of hungry children on our streets is unacceptable and particularly poignant over Christmas, as you know. With the increase in the cost of living this winter, is the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food Programme, which provides free school meals for children for only one of the two weeks of the school holiday, enough to stop children in London going hungry this Christmas? What conversations are you having with...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. Back to winter pressures, although the night-time Tube is important, especially for trying to get home from raucous parties. Also, Londoners deserve to see better discussions from us rather than where our tables and chairs are situated. Further to my colleague’s original question on winter pressures, we know that hospitals, general practices, community services and social care in London are at a breaking point at the beginning of what will be a very difficult winter. From your conversations with NHS officials in London, are you confident that the Government is taking this situation seriously...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Emma Best AM: Mr Mayor, one of the biggest winter challenges Londoners will face over the next three months is the uncertainty around the full reopening of the Night Tube, which is something we have agreed on, and the need to address this quickly. Would you be able to tell me how many staff have been recruited and trained so far in the bid to reopen the Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Susan Hall AM: One of the biggest challenges for you, Mr Mayor, and some of us Londoners over the next three months is the GLA’s move to the new City Hall, which of course you said was a decision made based on assumed savings. Please can you today confirm on which date we will move and that there will be a £61 million worth of saving over five years, which you have said before?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Emma Best AM: Just in listening to your answers and understanding your view of the market at the moment, is London Power still on track to meet the target of at least breaking even by 2024?