• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair. Over a year ago, it was great to welcome you to open the Brent Cross West station and it is always good to welcome our special friend to Barnet. That station is the first station that was built with platforms ready for the West London Orbital [proposed London Overground extension]. Do you have an update on that?

• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Gareth Roberts AM: If South Western Railway services are devolved to TfL, will you harmonise Tube and rail fares to ensure my residents in south-west London pay no more to travel on a TfL train than the TfL Tube?

• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Alex Wilson AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I would like to ask a fairly straightforward question: is the chant “from the River to the Sea” antisemitic?

• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Alessandro Georgiou AM: Mr Mayor, you have had to apologise for what many have deemed a non-violent faith-based hate crime incident. How can Londoners trust you to move forward with this issue?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, as you already mentioned, Tower Hamlets Council has twice rejected this planning application. My own personal position was right from the beginning I opposed it as well on planning grounds, not political grounds. The police previously objected to the application because of concerns relating to protests at the site and the impact this would have on both police resources and the need for road closures, which would cause transport challenges in the local area. Since 2019, there have been 37 protests against the Chinese Government in London and...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, the Conservative Group proposed a series of reckless cuts in the Budget process that would have decimated TfL’s Budget and staffing levels. What impact would this have had on TfL’s ability to deliver a safe transport service across London and also for Londoners to get around the city?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, one saving you have settled on is cutting a service that was clearly working for Londoners, The Cyber Helpline, which assists victims of fraud, cyber stalking, revenge porn, to rebuild and protect their digital identity. This service also has an investigative arm which is used by MPS officers every day and has led to the reopening of closed cases. It was only last week [at the Police and Crime Committee meeting on 12 March 2025] that Jain Lemom, the Head of Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) [at MOPAC], said there was...

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Zoë Garbett AM: Thank you, Chair. I am really concerned about your Growth Plan and how it will benefit many Londoners. Some of the maths is quite questionable. I wanted to just raise my concerns; London has been open to overseas investment for decades and what it has resulted in is increasing house prices, increasing rent, land banking, speculation, 300,000 homes that have not been built that have planning permission. We are seeing the city emptying out of nurses and children and teachers. In November [2024], an economist from King’s College wrote a paper on the UK housing market and...