• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Now that Labour and Reform on the Assembly are lockstep in favour of building tower blocks on parks, will you at least rule out building on London’s existing nature-filled parks?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Can I ask you, Mr Mayor, to read the report produced by the Conservative Group back in 2013, Shadow City, which raised many of those issues that then the Jay Report touched upon? We have been there. We have been in the room. We have been alerting London to the problems of human trafficking in London back to 2013. I would ask that you or one of your team review that report. It is 230 pages. I would appreciate that.

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, earlier you talked about the victims of the child abuse that has been so public recently and I know that they will appreciate that, I am sure, and everybody around this Chamber will appreciate those comments. Relating to the exchange that has just happened, I am going to ask you whether you are surprised that so little action was taken after the Jay Review [Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse] in 2022?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. You say that the MPS said there were no gangs to look at, but Alexis Jay [CBE, Chair, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse] was surprised by that and thought that the MPS needed to do more work. I just put that in as a slight balance. I will ask you the question. You were not in favour of a national inquiry. The Prime Minister was not in favour of a national inquiry. In fact, the Prime Minister said people who were are somehow far right. That was the term he used...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Susan Hall AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I am going back to grooming gangs. I would have continued last time, but there were children in the audience from Tower Hamlets and I was about to mention something there and I thought that was inappropriate. My question is, given the historic child protection failings in boroughs like Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, where the most heinous and despicable crimes took place over many years, do you think that a grooming gang would have been identified by the authorities in those areas if one was operating and sexually abusing young girls?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Léonie Cooper AM: Mr Mayor, I am actually quite enjoying your humour there, but I just wondered if you might agree with me that it is a bit hypocritical for the Conservatives in this Chamber, who are the only Group who have ever had somebody removed from the Chamber for being rude to another Assembly Member, there is also one of their number who Emma Best AM: No, Assembly Member Baker had to leave Len Duvall AM (Chair): Stop. Léonie Cooper AM: I am sorry. Do you mind? Emma Best AM: She was wrong and so I was pointing out...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you. When a politician raises an area of TfL performance they would like to see improved, do you think the correct response is to respond with name calling and disparaging remarks, and would you like to take this opportunity to apologise to Robert Jenrick for taking that path on this occasion? It is just a simple question of whether you would like to apologise. To be honest, I have three boys. If I asked them if they needed to apologise and they started reading a book to find out, I would send them to their room...

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. Fare evasion is an issue that is genuinely raised with me on a regular basis when I am out and about, and so I do welcome Assembly Members’ concerns, particularly around making sure that that money is going to our public transport network. However, I have to say I am surprised, given Assembly Member Wilson’s recent attacks on funding public transport improvements under the guise of criticism of net zero budgets, huge amounts of what is called your net zero budgets are public transport improvements. They are new buses. They are new station improvements...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Keith Prince AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I should not bother going through your notes, I am doing one left of the field for you. Sebastian, who is in the audience with Upminster Junior School today, he has asked me to ask you a question in relation to Assembly Member Wilson’s question on improving TfL’s performance, to get the link. Would increasing transport links between Rainham and Upminster, such as providing a Superloop link, improve TfL’s performance?

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 19 June 2025

Neil Garratt AM: Thank you, Chair. The question was about traffic reduction and your net-zero 2030 target. I am sure you are familiar with this document, you are the author, London’s Net-Zero 2030 Plan, which you are still committed to in your manifesto and repeatedly since. Therefore, I assume you are also aware that in there it says that the only way to achieve the traffic reduction that your net-zero 2030 target requires is to introduce a pay-per-mile scheme. You also say that you will not introduce a pay-per-mile scheme. One of those statements cannot be true. Which one of...