• Reference: 2025/2817
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How are the commitments in A New Met for London being funded?

• Reference: 2025/2816
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

The Commissioner has outlined his ambition for the Met to have an annual operating budget of £5.8bn. Was this included in the funding asks he and you made of Government during negotiations leading up to the Spending Review?

• Reference: 2025/2815
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

According to MOPAC papers, the MPS’s expenditure budget for 2024-25 was £4.6bn, rising to £4.9bn for 2025-26. Can you please outline how costs have increased in one year to mean that the Met is facing a budget shortfall of £260m despite a large funding increase from Government and City Hall?

• Reference: 2025/2814
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Can you please provide the full details of how the MPS intends to meet its £260m budget shortfall?

• Reference: 2025/2813
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Would the MPS be looking to make any of these ‘Tough Choices’ for positive operational purposes if the force wasn’t facing a budget gap in 2025/26?

• Reference: 2025/2812
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How have the extent of ‘Tough Choices’ cuts being implemented by the MPS changed since they were first discussed at the London Policing Board in November 2024, when the assumed budget gap was £450m, and in February when additional funding from Government and City Hall reduced the budget gap to £260m?

• Reference: 2025/2811
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

How much is the MPS anticipating it will save through implementing the Tough Choices referred to in the final MOPAC budget for 2025/26, and can you provide individual amounts for each of the 15 choices?

• Reference: 2025/2810
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Are you concerned that London boroughs are set to lose out from the Fair Funding Review 2.0?

• Reference: 2025/2809
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Given the recent revelations that full details of the Chinese Embassy’s planning application were hidden from the public documentation, will you consider conveying the concerns of Londoners to the Government?

• Reference: 2025/2808
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 11 September 2025

Are you pleased by the action taken by the Port of London Authority with support from Thames Water and Thames 21 to remove wet wipes from the River Thames?