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

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you, Chair. There was some more nuance there because I heard you say, “Scrap the cap”, but then I heard you say to Assembly Member Best, “Scrap the cap when you are able to do so”. Now, I gave you options of how the Chancellor could do so and one of the most obvious is a wealth tax on assets, a one per cent tax on assets of £10 million or more. Would you support a wealth tax in order to reduce child poverty?

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

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that. Could you please confirm to us here on the London Assembly what taxes you would like to see rise to pay for this?

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

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you, Chair. One in three children are growing up in poverty in London. That is 500,000 children. I am pleased to hear that you say you are concerned about the impact of this, and I believe you. That is different, though, to saying that you are calling on the Chancellor [of the Exchequer] to scrap the cap. Will you join me - and, more importantly, many child poverty campaigners - in saying, “Scrap this two child benefit cap”?

• 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...