• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you very much. First of all, I want to say thank you for the work that C40 is doing. The Rosebank oil field has the emissions that are cumulative of 28 of the poorest income countries altogether. Next week it looks like the Government is going to make a decision on it. I agree with everything you just said. This is a climate emergency. We also know that jobs in North Sea oil and gas have more than halved in the last ten years. There are lots of jobs waiting, particularly in London as well, in...

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

Alessandro Georgiou AM: Mr Mayor, there is one organisation that wants to ban advertising for fossil fuels. This is a woke, nasty, neo-Marxist organisation of which you are Co-Chair, and that is C40 Cities. Millions of Londoners and I believe they want to ban meat, they want to ban cars, they want to overtax workers, they want pay-per-mile, they want to ban flights, and they want to ban certain clothing. I hope you keep your leather trousers in the drawer! They want to do all of these woke, nasty things in the name of reducing global emissions on the backs...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Mr Mayor, why did it take so long for you to realise that the London Plan affordable housing targets were holding back developments in London?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, are you confident that your figures for the 2016 2023 AHP are accurate, including the 25,658 housing starts announced in the 2023/24 financial year?

• Question by: Gareth Roberts
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Gareth Roberts AM: Thank you, Mayor. Can I just double check? Are we talking about, within this new scheme, completions? Will full-site completions be eligible or is it ones that have made a start onsite?

• Question by: Sem Moema
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Sem Moema AM: Good morning, Mayor Khan. My question is around the emergency measures that have been introduced. We have a situation where we are in development of the new London Plan and incidental but related is this change from 35 to 20 per cent of new homes being built for a fixed period of time to be social and affordable homes. I am just wondering, given that context, how you are going to ensure that those homes are still delivered, given the emergency measures that have been brought in to kickstart housebuilding in the capital because we have had...

• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, you have just referred to the 14 years of chaos preceding this Government. As you know and everybody in this Chamber and in London knows, the MPS was put under extreme financial pressure because of 14 years of austerity under the last Government, and that led to police officers falling to as low as 30,000. Of course, it would have been a lot worse if you had not taken the decisive action that you took to increase funding from City Hall to record levels. Do you remember the...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Susan Hall AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. We are talking about the budget, and I can honestly say I have never known so many people to be so concerned about the budget next week. Everybody is. Everybody is talking about it. Of course, all these kites are getting flown all the time. [The Rt Hon Sir] Lindsay Hoyle [MP], whom you all know is the Speaker of the House [of Commons], referred to it as a ‘hokey-cokey’ budget. The problem is this just puts businesses in a bad position. It puts all of us in a bad position. So many...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Any savings that you are going to have to make in this budget will be driven, of course, by the Government budget. [The Rt Hon] Rachel Reeves [MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer] is being quoted as floating plans for a pay-per-mile scheme. Two years ago, in this very session in Mayor’s Question Time, you said twice to me, “As long as I am Mayor, there will be no pay-per-mile scheme.” Can I just check that you have made that representation to the Chancellor on this?

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 20 November 2025

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. I am slightly puzzled about having to look at London’s role as an international city and visiting other countries being seen as a potential for budget saving. The previous incumbent of your position, as you have already mentioned, was very fond of overseas travel and I believe his trips did not lead to as many positive outcomes for Londoners, although, as we have already heard today, maybe for himself personally. Your first overseas trip after you were elected in 2016 was to India, and you reopened offices in Mumbai and Delhi, which had been...