• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Steve O’Connell AM: On the same subject, you said £500 million was the top end. Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): £602 million. Steve O’Connell AM: What amount would be acceptable to spend on this bridge, in your mind?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I want to come to the issue of the violence that we have seen over the weekend. Two of the five deaths that you talked about were in my constituency and I wrote to the Borough Commanders in Newham and Tower Hamlets yesterday. I was at a meeting in Mile End recently after yet another death, attended by some 300 people, where I spoke and Mayor John Biggs [Mayor of Tower Hamlets] spoke. I talked about the public health approach and I talked about the cuts, but people were angry...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. As you know, Mr Mayor, the murder on Tuesday evening was in my constituency in Barnet. I would like to thank you for the explanation of what you and the MPS are doing despite the overstretched resources. The Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet [The Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP] has called for more police officers and obviously we would like to see those, but would you encourage her to start lobbying the Government to reverse the cuts for which she voted when she was in Cabinet to enable the MPS to be properly...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): Thank you for much in that update, Mr Mayor. I am just going to see if there are any responses from Members who put in a matter for you and I will then go on to picking up the announcement of the retirement of the Fire Commissioner. Mr Mayor, can I just come back to you about my update? I want to thank you for meeting the elected councillors yesterday from a group of about 10 schools representing 4,200 children. They had done some work in preparation to coming here to City Hall to see...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you, Chair. Going from the general to the specific, Mayor, I sense that you are being told that it is all working very well on the mutual support and housing officers in police stations. It is not correct. I will give you a little story about Croydon. In south Croydon, officers have to parade in Addington Police Station and take a 50-minute bus ride to south of Croydon. That is to police four wards. Three years ago we had a new fire station open, Purley Fire Station. Much excitement happened about that, although it is being...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Deputy Chairman. Can I congratulate the Mayor on how he has responded to the colleagues on the opposite side of the table, and rightly so? We should try to do everything on the issues that have been raised. I just cannot get away from this. Taking £1 billion out of policing and expecting that it will not have an impact on the services we can do in London. We can ask and ask, but if we keep going on and do not challenge collectively central Government about the funding of policing in this area, we...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Shaun Bailey AM: Just to pick up on this innovation of using modern slavery laws to get people who are exploiting young children around county lines. I wonder if you could commit to having police training improved. Speaking to people at the Children’s Society, they are saying there is an issue where particularly young people do not get a safeguarding response. They get a criminal response when they are vulnerable and they have been trafficked in that way. I wonder if there is something we could do around police training to help identify that.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, in terms of keeping with the theme about honesty in politics, I understand you have mentioned about the issues that occurred during the debates about leaving the EU, are you aware what the UK Statistics Authority actually said to the then Foreign Secretary [Boris Johnson MP] when he made his announcement around that £350 million ‑‑

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Nicky Gavron AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. With climate change high on the agenda as well as air quality - and rightly so - you have declared a climate change emergency and I am very pleased that the week after next you are running the first-ever Climate Action Week in London, but we need more concerted effort. Of course much of that should come from the Government in terms of regulation, support and investment, but you have very strong powers in planning. How are you going to ensure that we accelerate towards zero-carbon developments? Just before you answer that question...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, on 9 June [2019], the flats at De Pass Gardens in my constituency at Barking Riverside were engulfed by fire, destroying 20 homes and damaging 43 more. Mr Mayor, I am sure you will join me, firstly, in thanking the emergency services for ensuring no one was hurt. Indeed, within five minutes, Barking fire crews and vehicles were responding to the incident. Mr Mayor, will you also join me in noting and congratulating the extraordinarily swift response of Barking and Dagenham Council to this incident? Thirteen minutes after the initial reports, the...