• Reference: 2025/3022
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Are you happy with the level of housebuilding in London?

• Reference: 2025/3021
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

London is not only suffering the highest unemployment rate of any region in the country, it is rising faster than the rest of the country. August's ONS figures show London's unemployment rate is 6.0% compared with 4.7% for the UK, rising by 0.7% in the last 12 months compared with a 0.5% nationally. Why do you think London's job market has performed so poorly over the last 12 months compared with the rest of the country?

• Reference: 2025/3020
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Recent ONS data shows London was the only UK region with a 1.1% decline in productivity between 2019 and 2023. How will you make good on the Growth Plan’s productivity goals and achieve 2% annual growth by 2035?

• Reference: 2025/3019
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Why are London wages failing to keep pace with inflation, and what are you doing about it?

• Reference: 2025/3018
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Compared with pre-pandemic levels, why do you believe footfall on Oxford Street failed to recover compared with Regent Street and Bond Street? As cited by your Deputy Chief of Staff, they are at 83% and 98% respectively of 2006 footfall, while Oxford Street languishes at just 57% of 2006 footfall.

• Reference: 2025/3017
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Do you welcome the Government's welfare plans, which it claims will get more people back into work?

• Reference: 2025/3016
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

In June 2024, UK inflation was 2.8% but it has now risen to 4.1%, hammering Londoners' cost of living over the last year. Are you concerned about this, and what representations have you made to the Government about this?

• Reference: 2025/3015
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

When did you last meet the Chancellor of the Exchequer to discuss the damage her National Insurance increase is doing to London businesses and workers, especially in the crucial leisure and hospitality sectors?

• Reference: 2025/3014
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

The Government’s latest National Insurance hikes have led to 69,000 job losses in the hospitality sector since April. How many of these job losses are in London?

• Reference: 2025/3013
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

The latest ICAEW Business Confidence Monitor for London finds "April’s rise in employer’s National Insurance Contributions has been a major concern for businesses in the capital, with the proportion of businesses citing the tax burden as a growing challenge reaching a survey-record high of 57% in Q2 2025. This proportion is among the highest recorded in the UK and is nearly three times the historical average (20%)." What meetings have you had since April with London businesses to understand these serious problems?