• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): This relates to a release of information about the operational planning associated with the former Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral. In that planning, people would welcome that information to cause harm if they could have access to that detail. I am not sure why a political group on the Assembly would support that, in terms of putting in jeopardy future planning operations with [protocols] which were used in the past, and that would be used in the future. What would that be about? This is not about the central premise that was raised about the...

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

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. You will be aware there is significant concern over why you accepted free VIP Taylor Swift tickets from a company - at the time that it offered you those tickets - that was tendering for business at the [GLA], business that it went on to win. Journalists have submitted FOI requests around those documents relating to the decision-making around that process, which were rejected on grounds of national security. Are you really sitting there now and asking Londoners to believe that information relating to why you went to see Taylor Swift is an...

• Reference: 2025/1211
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 20 March 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): The Mayor will now provide an oral update of up to five minutes in length on matters occurring since the publication of his report.