• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, during this pandemic, the Government has been behind the curve on many issues and, as a result, we have seen indecision and a series of U-turns on many essential matters. How has this affected London’s ability to counter the effects of the pandemic?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Chair. Very quickly, Mr Mayor, in relation to the border tax, this will be devastating for my patch, Havering and Redbridge, both of which are border towns. Also, will you be doing any impact assessment on that before you introduce it, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Alison Moore
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Dr Alison Moore AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I think nobody who has been on this Assembly or a councillor would disagree with the fact that there is a real and clear need for genuinely affordable housing, particularly for families, although not only for families, in London. We are all very grateful that one of the first things you did as Mayor was to scrap that definition of affordable housing being 80% of the market rate, which [The Rt Hon] Boris Johnson [MP, Prime Minister] brought in when he was Mayor. If the Government changed its rules around affordable...

• 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?