• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Sian Berry AM: Thank you, Chair. Firstly, Mr Mayor, I would like to thank you for the apology that came with the revised answer and by email from your Deputy Mayor [for Policing and Crime] about the serious inaccuracy that occurred with my MQ. That is very much appreciated. In my submitted question here today I had planned to have quite a wide-ranging discussion with you about human rights but, given what has happened, this is a bit of casework that I should discuss now. My first question - and I ask this because the Police and Crime Committee discussed...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): Assembly Member Cooper, you wanted to come back? Leonie Cooper AM: Yes. Thank you very much. It is still on the subject of Brexit and it is about ‑‑ Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): Chair, can I just say: do not allow the Conservatives heckling you to put you off raising the important issues. Leonie Cooper AM: I will not. It is a very serious question about things that the Mayor has been doing and the impact on Londoners who may need to seek settled or pre-settled status. The figures nationally show that only 1...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, you already mentioned the Cabinet Office’s report on Operation Yellowhammer. Do you think it is scaremongering or does the report have any substance? Following that, do you think London is ready to face the shortages and chaos it will result in and what steps are you able to take to protect Londoners from acute shortages and the disastrous impact it will have on the economic development of London?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, what would be the impact on London’s economy of increasing the salary threshold for overseas workers coming here to £36,700, as proposed by the new Conservative Home Secretary Priti Patel?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chair. In terms of housing infrastructure, Mr Mayor, I would have thought our priority should be public transport infrastructure, things like Crossrail 2 and devolution of metro services to London rather than car parking. I wanted to ask you a quick question on the compulsory purchase of land, which is often the barrier to delivering both new housing and new infrastructure. Both Labour and the Conservative parties in 2017 pledged to reform compulsory purchase laws to make it easier for local councils to buy land for housing and for infrastructure. I wondered if you have...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, sorry, I did not quite catch the last bit you said. Could you remind us what has happened to local authority budgets since 2010 under successive Conservative Governments?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. Earlier you said you welcomed the Prime Minister’s U-turn on cuts to police numbers and police funding. Is it not the case that in fact the cuts to the MPS have been greater than they needed because when he was sitting in that chair he refused to raise the police precept to pay for additional officers?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, I am delighted that you believe yourself to be the most pro black taxi Mayor of all. You obviously do not look at your Twitter. In your manifesto, Mr Mayor, you promised - let me just have a look at the manifesto here - “special privileges built in, as they always have been, for those who become a licensed London taxi driver”. You also mentioned retaining “the exclusive right of licensed black taxi drivers to use bus lanes and ply for hire”. You promised special privileges to the black cab drivers...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I am increasingly concerned as to whether Stratford Station can safely meet growing passenger demand. Stratford Station is dangerously overcrowded, with well over 40 million passengers using the station a year, from only 12 million a decade ago. I understand plans to address overcrowding are looking solely at Stratford regional station, yet Stratford International could help relieve the situation. What are you doing to look at expanding the use of Stratford International Station to deal with this increase in demand?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Keith Prince AM: Thank you. Just going back to the MLB, you said that you washed your face with that one. It made a slight profit, I believe you said.