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

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: I just want to go back to the County House situation. Am I correct in saying that this was a permitted development (PD), and it was a modified office block? That is what the reporting says.

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

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you and good afternoon, Mayor. I want to talk about this question of police morale. The Commissioner talked about the effect that politicians have had on police morale, and we can all agree on that, but I wonder if you could go back to him and start to have a conversation about the effect that the actions of very senior police officers are having on rank-and-file officers. I walk with a number of officers and the biggest conversation we have had in the last month is what happened with the TfL case and the...

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

Neil Garratt AM: Yes, picking up this point about overheating cabins, actually this time of year underheating cabins is also a problem, perhaps more so. In fact, I was on a bus the other day where the driver was wearing a very bulky jacket and a balaclava. I do not know if that was a fashion statement that he was making, but I was pretty cold on the bus and I did not have a balaclava. You have said correctly that TfL says that the buses need to have air conditioning and they need to have working heating specifically for...

• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Alessandro Georgiou AM: We just need to clarify something. You mentioned a Hermès scarf and handbags. I do not remember the previous Mayor walking around in those. What we are trying to ascertain is whether you have worn your posh Hugo Boss suits and your Georgio Armani ones at meetings or any event that you have been to as Mayor. This is about you, not the previous Mayor or the Mayor before him.

• 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...