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

Alessandro Georgiou AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, Mr Mayor. I hope you and your family are well. As has been explored from the questioning between you and Assembly Member Small-Edwards, your Growth Plan is entirely contingent on what happens with the Government. Therefore, Mr Mayor, the decisions taken by [The Rt Hon] Rachel [Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer] “from accounts” last year now means that next week’s Spring Statement [26 March 2025] has become an emergency budget, with the Chancellor scrabbling round to find billions of pounds to balance the books. Your Labour Government promised one fiscal event...

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

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): I do not know how you can take it seriously, sitting in this meeting and listening to someone who rubbished your attempts to talk to manufacturers about trying to do the best thing by stopping mobile phone thefts, disconnecting [stolen mobile phones], all those issues, and it was rubbished and poo-pooed that it was not good enough. Do you accept, Mr Mayor, that the MPS’s mission is to tackle crime in all its forms, it does not have to be specifically in plans, but it is there that the mission is to deal with all...

• 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.