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

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I could go on and on because there are some serious issues here, but I am limited for time so I will just come straight to the point. It is welcome news that new analysis from City Hall shows that all types of serious violence experienced by young people have fallen over the last four years and were falling in London before the pandemic. However, it is a concern that this research also highlights that all ten of the boroughs that you just referred to with the highest rates of victims of...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Keith Prince AM (Deputy Chairman): Mr Mayor, I completely agree with your position and you have made the point of the weakness of negotiating in public. Would you agree?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Neil Garratt AM: Since we were just talking about TfL’s income streams and part of TfL’s income now comes from the ULEZ charge that you have just been talking about, which is also levied on charities such as the fantastic Dogs on the Streets, which I would like to raise. They run a mobile vet and they provide care for pet dogs when someone is homeless or sleeping rough. More than that, they work in partnership with the London Ambulance Service so, when someone is being taken away in the ambulance, they can provide emergency support for their pets. If...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper

Léonie Cooper AM: We discussed a motion concerning particulate pollution at the Plenary just last week, and I put an amendment down to the motion that came from the Assembly Member opposite. You have run an awareness campaign, but we still have this issue about wood burning stoves and of course the enforcement is mainly with local authorities. You have mentioned the issue of powers, so I wanted to ask you two things. One of the particular issues with wood burning stoves is if people use wet wood, and that was apparent when I went to Battersea Park recently and...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Emma Best AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor, and thank you for your updates. At the last MQT I told you how vital reopening the Night Tube was and we were agreed on that and as well how important it is for those 150,000 that signed that petition asking for the opening of the Night Tube, because too many women and girls have witnessed or experienced sexual harassment at night travelling home, and really need that safe haven transport. If I am correct, can I sum up what I took from your remarks and you can confirm if correct, the Night...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to ask a couple of follow-up questions around the very, very serious situation you have outlined in regard to TfL this morning. In your update and as we have seen in the press this morning and TfL papers, bus services potentially could be cut by almost a fifth without a sustainable funding settlement from Government. We know that low-income Londoners, working-class Londoners, are more likely to use the bus, much more likely to use the bus, along with women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Londoners, our youngest and our oldest...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Zack Polanski AM: I wanted to bring us back to COP and I agree on the scale of the challenge. World leaders, too often, have not stepped up to the challenge, particularly on finance. I was at COP and working really hard. I want to acknowledge how hard you were working at COP. Everywhere I went, you seemed to be here, there and everywhere, particularly in your role as Chair of the C40 [Cities Climate Leadership Group]. It struck me how much people are looking to London for that leadership role on the global stage. You have a net-zero pathway...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Elly Baker AM: I have a couple of questions about domestic abuse for the Commissioner. We have very little time, though, just to let you know. If we could have short answers, that would be great. The first one is around the use of Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) and Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs), as well as the use of Clare’s Law, which varies significantly across London. We are aware that in Barking there are twice as many DVPOs and DVPNs used and almost four times the amount of Clare’s Law right-to-know disclosures than in Barnet. Do you know...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: Homophobic hate crime in this city continues to be a real concern with the number of incidents in recent months surpassing any previous month on record. We have heard from some of my colleagues around the rise in antisemitic incidents and I wanted to shed a specific light on attacks on East and South Asian Londoners, which obviously increased during the pandemic, which was not helped by hateful comments made by the former United States President. My question, first, to you, Commissioner, is: have you done any analysis as to why we are seeing such a rise...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 02 December 2021

Anne Clarke AM: Mr Mayor, please can you provide us with an update on the current situation with the court backlog in London and what impact this is having on successful conviction rates?