• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Keith Prince AM: Thank you, Chair. Can I mirror your comments to the Chair, first of all? Mr Mayor, would you agree to help to link up the GLA with the London Armed Forces Network? This is a body that brings together partners to give advice to service personnel and veterans around mental health, housing, finance, and so on.

• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Thomas Turrell AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, with regards to bus times and the Superloop in particular, I have spotted that a couple of the new Superloop routes are going to replace existing bus routes. For example, the SL11 is set to replace the 472 route and in my constituency, we have seen other services, like the 138, reducing service. We have had a school bus route that has been cut. Could you just assure me that new Superloop routes are not being used to replace other bus routes in order to artificially improve bus times?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Mr Mayor, although I am not sure many of us wanted the images of blimps above London of politicians wearing nappies or yellow bikinis restored to our memories. I just wanted to come back to the issue of freedom of speech. I notice that Assembly Member Boff had posted on social media to say that people in Havering and Redbridge should perhaps have the opportunity to express their opinions about this change from dark blue to turquoise that has taken place with Assembly Member Prince. It was. Assembly Member Boff did post on...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. The police resource most under stress at this moment will be the man and woman power - the people power - of the police in service. These protests have been particularly hard work for the police service. Two thousand MPS officers are off due to stress and mental health. This is a very worrying statistic. How are you ensuring that these people, who dedicate their professional lives to our safety, are being looked after on a day-to-day basis?

• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Thomas Turrell AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Before I ask my question, I am sure you will want to join me in thanking the 100 or so firefighters who are currently tackling a blaze on Penge High Street in my constituency, thank them for their bravery and the speed which they have got this fire under control. Speaking of outer London and transport in outer London, you have mentioned the lack of public transport in outer London which does lead to higher car dependency and it is on that that I once again draw back to this RAC list published...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you. I want to pick up on a current threat to our city’s economy and public services relating to immigration status. You were just talking about the retrospective nature of the Reform [UK] proposed changes. You talked about the importance of people having certainty and knowing what the rules of the game are. Now, I want to talk about the changes that the Government made to the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa with just three weeks’ notice as it went through Parliament. This affects over 200, possibly as many as 300 TfL employees who...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. You are quite correct, this is a Government decision, but Enfield has over 3,000 people, many of them children, in temporary accommodation (TA). It has over 7,500 on its housing needs register waiting for a permanent home. London councils combined are spending £5.5 million a day on homelessness, primarily on housing people in TA. We know from the talks we do to local residents that many of them are living in overcrowded accommodation in poor conditions. One of the things about the new town is that it is said that, of those 20,000-odd...

• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Alessandro Georgiou AM: Thank you, Chair. Last but not least, as always with me, Mr Mayor, firstly, can I thank you for your oral update? I really do not want to get on to the politics of this. I know you and I disagree vehemently on the new town allocation, well, draft allocation for Crews Hill and Vicarage Farm. Mr Mayor, the reason for my questions is because Enfield Labour Council has not been honest with the public and not revealed many of the details, and the first we had all heard of it was when the Ministry for Housing...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 09 October 2025

Anne Clarke AM: Yes, thank you for that. I just want to take a step back because what has always been apparent to me, as somebody who represents the largest Jewish population in the country, is the time you have spent with the Jewish community, whether that is before the terrorist attacks of 7 October [2023] or after. I have been in Barnet with you when you have walked alongside us with the police. I have visited synagogues with you. I know you have had Seder dinners with local families. It is those sorts of actions that show to me...