• Reference: 2024/3976
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

In the most recent GLA staff ‘PULSE’ survey, it was revealed that only 64% of the staff who work in your office ‘look forward to going to work’ – down by 21% in a year. What do you attribute this collapse in morale to?

• Reference: 2024/3975
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

In London last year, we saw: Over 52,000 phones stolen. Over 1,000 firearm offences. Over 15,000 incidents with a knife/ sharp object. How can you conclude that London has become safer since you have become Mayor?

• Reference: 2024/3974
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

Outrageously, 52,000 phones were stolen on the streets of London last year. Could you outline, very specifically, what you’re doing to tackle this serious issue?

• Reference: 2024/3973
• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 19 December 2024

A Freedom of Information Request shows that in London’s Outer Boroughs only 2% of domestic burglaries result in arrest or summons. What action are you taking to reassure Londoners that domestic burglary has not been de facto decriminalised?

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Clarke, please. Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair, and good afternoon to the panel. I am going to start with you, Fiona. Coming on to building safety, which we have not touched on much in this meeting so far, what more can we do to ensure building safety standards are adequate, that they are appropriate and that we keep Londoners safe?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Sheikh, please. Thank you. Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. I think by this stage of the Plenary we are probably drawing on comments that have been made already, so I welcome the opportunity to tie in some threads and move towards solutions. It is what we have been discussing but I think it is good to highlight as we come to the end. Tom, Deputy Mayor, I come back to you. This is regarding what we have just been discussing in terms of rents and affordability in London and what it needs to...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): All right. Assembly Member McCartney, please? Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you. We know that there are over 300,000 households in London on local authority waiting lists. I am very glad that, as we have heard from the Deputy Mayor, this Mayor has started building council homes again at the highest rate since the 1970s. But of course, housing associations have a real role to play here. Can I ask Alistair to start with, if I can? Looking at your recent strategic review, one of your challenges you identified - and I am going to quote this...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Best, please. Emma Best AM: Thank you very much. Good afternoon, panel. Deputy Mayor, you have talked a lot today about the failings perhaps you perceive. I wonder when you look ‑‑ Tom Copley (Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development): Could you repeat that, sorry? Emma Best AM: I said you have talked a lot today about the failings you perceive perhaps from the Government. When you look back at your own record and deliveries of the first London AHP and other schemes, is there anything that you think is a lesson learned...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Assembly Member Sheikh, please? Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Deputy Mayor regarding the Renters (Reform) Bill that you made reference to just now. As you will know better than me, it is four years delayed. The area of the Renters (Reform) Bill that we are particularly interested in is the ban on section 21 [of the Housing Act 1988] no-fault evictions. This four-year delay has led to more than 10,000 Londoners being evicted since it was initially promised. We are pleased to see that it is finally in Parliament, but...

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Garratt, please? Neil Garratt AM: Afternoon, everyone. Obviously, it is easy work to sit here on a panel and explain what the Government should be doing and, very quickly, without really noticing, you can commit billions of pounds of spending on vast sites that we do not own or control. You said earlier, Tom, that urgent Government action has been required. I have not quite been keeping track, but it seems to me that every time you have spoken you have explained what the Government should be doing differently or is doing...