• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): We can go on the clock for this. Mr Mayor, you quite rightly said that you do not want to be seen to predetermine any planning application, but as you also said, you are Chair of TfL, and it is TfL that is coming forward with the proposals. Would you be willing to issue an instruction to TfL to not come forward with plans for building on Green Belt parks?

• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

James Small-Edwards AM: Thank you, Chair, and happy New Year, Mr Mayor. I just want to highlight what you mentioned earlier about the fact that you exceeded the affordable homes target for the programme 2016-2023 and that this came at a time when Homes England and the previous Government missed their targets on affordable housing, and then shamefully - during a national housing crisis - dropped mandatory house building targets. I just wanted to see whether you agree with me that having a Government that matches your ambition will see a benefit to Londoners when it comes to house building...

• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Thomas Turrell AM: Thank you, Chair, and happy New Year, Mr Mayor, and congratulations on your knighthood. Close to half of the instances when completions and starts in Bromley have been off target have come since 2019. During this time, developers have continued to buy up our Green Belt. Does the Mayor share my concern that developers have been dragging their feet in completions in the hope of a relaxation of the Green Belt rules?

• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Alessandro Georgiou AM: Thank you and good morning, Mr Mayor. I hope we can continue the positive exchanges because I am about to bring something up that I know that we both care about and something I have defended you publicly and privately on. Before I go down this road, I am not bringing up greybelt, what I am about to discuss on the Green Belt is green, verdant land. Mr Mayor, should we be building on London’s parks in order to meet your housing targets?

• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Alex Wilson AM: Thank you, Chair. As it is the first meeting back, I wish everyone a happy New Year. Unfortunately for some people it is not such a happy start to the year. The year has only just begun and already we have seen at least nine major stabbing incidents on our streets. That is one every other day. On 1 January, a 25-year-old man was stabbed on Oxford Street; 5 January, a double stabbing on Kilburn High Road; 6 January, an 18-year-old man stabbed on Prince Imperial Road; 7 January, we know there was the tragic murder of...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you, Chair. The Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS), in October [2024] I asked you if you had any conversations with the Government about suspending it. You said you had no conversations. When there was a Conservative Government, you said, “Suspend the ANPS immediately, this will stop Heathrow expansion”. Have you had that conversation now with the new Labour Government?

• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Gareth Roberts AM: Thank you and thanks for that update, Mr Mayor. On the matter of the additional police funding, will that money be used to prevent the worst-case scenario outlined by Sir Mark [Rowley QPM, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis] regarding the close of things like the Royal Parks Police, dogs units, mounted police, all of that?

• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Zoë Garbett AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. I have heard concerns from rough sleeping organisations and food banks about the operation of StreetLink and how some people are slipping through the gaps. I know this has been promoted as a way of supporting rough sleepers. I just wondered if someone from your team can get in touch with me after the meeting to hear some of these concerns because you will appreciate they are quite urgent. Thanks.

• Reference: 2025/0349
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 16 January 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. Mr Mayor.