• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair. I want to thank Assembly Member Ahmad for bringing this important question and for her work and, indeed, the Mayor’s work on UFSM. One very important aspect in my constituency and in London wider was the kosher UFSM uplift. We have done some early engagement in Barnet Council with our Jewish schools. I would like to particularly recognise the work of the Partnership for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), which is co-ordinating a response from Jewish schools to the early contact with the Government over the free breakfast club because, as we did at City Hall...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Len Duvall AM (Deputy Chair): As the Member on the other side has indicated, that [MPS Budget] gap has come down from our earlier answer in terms of some of the detail. Is it not the way to talk about that gap and the challenges of addressing that gap to continue with talking to Government and making the case? It is something that I have raised with you before, that issue around flexibility, that how do we get warranted police officers that are doing jobs that they should not be doing and going on the frontline? We need proper support...

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

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, can I ask what we can do as politicians to tackle rising Islamophobia and make sure that we are considered in what we do and how we can support the police in their job?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 January 2025

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. You said in your manifesto that you promised to freeze fares until at least 2025 and continue to freeze fares for as long as economic conditions allow. What has changed? Why do you now think it is a good idea to raise fares? Your previous fare freezes cost TfL around £1 billion in lost revenue but why is it now a good time to increase fares when it was not before?

• 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?