• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Firstly, Mr Mayor, I would like to thank you and all your teams for all you are doing in providing advice, support and very strong guidance for Londoners. That is very much appreciated. We are all concerned about our colleagues here in City Hall, our families, our friends and our communities. I just want to thank everyone, actually, in this Chamber for working so collaboratively at this time because we have to work together. We have had some recent experience in London of ways to help small and microbusinesses after terrible circumstances disrupt their...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I have two questions I would like to ask. One you have already touched on. For many people, home can be a place of danger rather than a place of safety. Considering many people are going to be spending so much more time at home for the foreseeable future and there has been this link found between self-isolation and increases in domestic abuse, I am wondering specifically what you are looking to do to provide additional support, particularly when these services are stretched at the best of times?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I would like to say a few words around rough sleepers. I know it is an area that you are very interested in. I work with probably the country’s largest rough-sleeper group plus also some small ones locally. They have a lot of concerns. I know some of the questions have been answered and I will ask a few specific questions. More importantly, Mr Mayor, do you think that you or your team could provide some kind of single point of contact (SPOC)? Even though I know that a lot of the...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, Dr Twycross. Thank you for your update, Mayor, at this time when we are facing unprecedented public pressure. It is very good to hear your update and understand the level of work that is going on in the GLA and also out in councils. I just want to ask a little question about testing. There was talk about a 10-minute test that will let people know if they have already had the virus and have immunity to it. Is that test available and how many Londoners have been tested?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Thank you very much for your statement. I am sure that we all support all your efforts in the coming months. I am sure that you also would appreciate that many Londoners are trying to work their way through all the detail and the information they are getting and that one thing that might, if they are listening today, have struck them is when you mentioned this period of 12 weeks when you were talking about what we should and maybe should not do. Could you just explain a little about that and...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, thank you very much for your leadership in dealing with this crisis across London. I also want to thank the Deputy Mayor [for Fire and Resilience], Dr Twycross AM, for all the hard work she has done to make sure London is resilient and able to cope with this. Dr Fiona Twycross AM (Deputy Chair, GLA Strategic Co-ordination Group - COVID-19): Thank you. Dr Onkar Sahota AM: I also want to thank the frontline nurses and doctors, the public health staff, the cleaners and the porters in the hospitals, all those people...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, we know that you have been calling on the Government for public health interventions from very early on in this pandemic whilst the Government has been frankly playing catch-up with you. Now that the focus has moved on to preparing for the resulting economic downfall - and everything we hear tells us exactly how bad that is going to be - do you feel that the Government’s mini budget last week went far enough in supporting London’s economy following lockdown as we start to open up? Is it enough to...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, first of all I want to echo the thanks you gave to all the frontline people who work hard for us. Of course, as London, we were in the hands of the Government also and the Government educated the whole of the country on the reproduction (R) number and the COVID-19 curve, but what it did not mention was the curve for preparedness. This Government was behind the curve in declaring a national emergency. It was behind the curve in the lockdown. It was behind the curve in getting nursing homes already. It was...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, in 2016 you committed to starting 10,000 homes on TfL land by May 2020. How many have you started?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. Firstly, can I commend Assembly Member Duvall for his tenacious pursuit around this domestic violence piece and serial offenders. It is really important and I want to congratulate him and encourage him to keep going. Mr Mayor, to pick up on the points, what work is City Hall doing and what work is your office doing around helping the police do more focused work in recovering from this outbreak of COVID-19? I speak to many people in the community who are absolutely worried about outbreaks in gang crime and individuals making threats across the...