• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. One final question from me is you have pledged many times your support for the reduction in winter fuel allowance and the ending of the universal offer. Now that the Government looks like it is U-turning on that, will you again pledge that you would like to see that return to everybody, all pensioners? Will you be part of the calls to make sure that is now a fair offer next winter?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning, Mr Mayor. One of your commitments in your manifesto was to end rough sleeping for good by 2030. Obviously, since your time as Mayor, we have just seen that figure rise, it is now a record high, it has almost doubled since you came to power. One of the consequences of that being we are now seeing these large encampments, one for example in Park Lane, TfL applying for the possession order in the Central London County Court today [22 May 2025]. I suppose that is an action that you would agree with...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Good morning, Mayor. I see you are on good form this morning! When it comes to listening to Londoners, you could probably argue that housing is one of the biggest calls and you are on record constantly talking about your record delivery and we have heard it before, and I am sure you will give a rendition now. You also have two years of record low delivery, two records that I feel that you should be ashamed of and should be addressing. In 2023/24 you [delivered] the lowest number of affordable houses and, in 2024/25...

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Zoë Garbett AM: Thank you, Chair. I am really looking forward to giving my views through the consultation and it is a consultation that I wanted to raise a concern about. The accessible formats are only available on request and not as standard on the website, which is not best practice. I just wondered if they can be made available as soon as possible and there is a bit of a concern about the short consultation window.

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. Just briefly on the TfL disruption on 12 May, a follow-up on the power outage. Many passengers were caught up in the disruption and we have had complaints effectively saying the communication was not as good as it could have been. Would you ask TfL to review what could have been done better and come back to us on that?

• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Hina Bokhari OBE AM: Thank you, and congratulations to our new Chair. Mr Mayor, do you think the language that the Prime Minister used that migration was a squalid chapter was dangerous or not?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, it was good to hear your solidarity with trans Londoners. Trans, intersex, and non-binary Londoners have been through a completely hellish period since the Supreme Court ruling, with huge amounts of uncertainty and have been part of a national discourse that has been frankly humiliating, discriminatory, and just deeply unpleasant. It is very important that you as Mayor show your allyship, and I am hoping that going forward - and I would like your confirmation of this - that you will use your leadership to frame that discussion, to frame everything that is...

• Reference: 2025/1806
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 22 May 2025

Len Duvall 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.