• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. I think we have just heard a number of questions about donations and declarations. I just wondered if you knew how they compared to the previous Mayor, immediately previous to you. I know you may not have all of the details, therefore I have got one or two. I think he received a donation of £23,853 from JCB towards his wedding, a holiday worth £15,000 to Mustique with one of his many numerous wives, I am not sure who donated that, a furnished office space valued at £7,000-odd, £85,000 in one year, and contributions...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, all the marches that we have seen over the last few months or the last year, the police response does require a debate. There are issues raised. It is how we do the debate that is important. What answers do we provide? It is important that the debate is done in a reasonable, rational, and responsible manner, particularly by those people in positions of power who have the ability to influence the debate. It is providing answers, answers that are workable. This is where my problem is with...

• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Gareth Roberts AM: Thank you, Chair. Dragging ourselves back to the agenda, yesterday we [the PCC] heard from Lord Walney [the Government’s Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption] and his report [Protecting our Democracy from Coercion, May 2024]. Recommendation 20 of the Walney report suggests that, “the Government should consider the viability of requiring protest organisers to contribute to policing costs when groups are holding a significant number of large demonstrations, which cause serious disruption or significant levels of law breaking.” Would you support that recommendation?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Morning, Mayor. I want to return to the subject of police cadets. I received a letter from a parent, I believe you have received the same letter, where she speaks at great length and with great power about her daughter Olivia and the positive effect that the formal arrangement of cadets had on her, not only on her, but the wider community, and so on. She then speaks about the impact on the community. I want to add to that how it helps with recruitment, how the police have a real problem with young people...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Neil Garratt AM: Morning. Something that will put even more financial pressure on Londoners who are struggling is the inability of TfL to process refunds, to issue receipts for journeys, because of the cyberattack that is still ongoing, I think. Do you have a sense of the scale of the problem of those unpaid refunds? Do you know when the problem will be resolved? Most importantly, can you guarantee that in the end all of those people will get their refund?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. On the issue of advertising as well, the Health Committee last year looked at the issue of gambling harms, and the Mayoral Advisor, Dr Tom Coffey [OBE], did mention at that stage that, while there were clear guidelines from Government on junk food and high fats and high sugar in foods, there was not the same equivalent in problem gambling and that those definitions could not be translated into gambling harms. Can you now take forward with the new Government to raise this issue and also see if similar work can happen where TfL...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Susan Hall AM: Morning, Mr Mayor. You will be aware of the very, very strict rules around food. In fact, you have been commenting on it just now. So strong are these rules that Ed Gamble, a comedian, I am sure you know, had to photoshop out a hot dog and replace it with a cucumber on an advert for his show. Amazing. However, you have a company called Wahed which is a finance company and featuring on those adverts is a chap called Mufti Menk, who is known to have denounced homosexuality as “filthy” and said that “gays were...

• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

James Small-Edwards AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, are you surprised that Assembly Member Best’s report ignores the role played by Brexit and the last Government’s economic mismanagement in posing challenges to London’s nighttime economy?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I wondered if you would like to just do a quick comparison for us in terms of standing up for London since 2016 with the previous Mayor of London, who apparently, I believe, gave away quite a number of things to the then Prime Minister [The Rt Hon Lord] David Cameron and the then Chancellor [The Rt Hon] George Osborne [CH], that has led to a number of problems, for example the operating grant for TfL, and so on.

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Neil Garratt AM: Morning. Thinking about requests that you are making of Government, you previously made it very clear that London needs, in your view, £4.9 billion a year for ten years for funding for affordable housing. That was a request that you made of the previous Government. Have you made the same request of the new Government?