- The Mayor is proposing to increase council tax by 5.1 per cent to help fund London’s police and fire services. What does this mean for the Met’s budget?
- In particular, how many police officers will the Met be able to afford, or does the Met have other plans for the money?
- How are the Met’s savings programmes progressing?
- Will its digital policing initiative end up saving or costing money?
In the second of three meetings to examine the Mayor’s 2018/19 budget, the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee [1] will tomorrow first put questions to
representatives from the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) on what the Mayor’s budget means for their plans to deliver new homes and jobs in West London:
Panel 1: from 10am to approximately 10:30am
- Victoria Hills, Chief Executive Officer, OPDC
- Doug Wilson, Chief Operating Officer, OPDC
- David Gallie, Assistant Director, Group Finance, GLA
Members will also put questions to representatives from the Met:
Panel 2: from approximately 10:30 to 12:00pm
- Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, GLA
- Siobhan Peters, Chief Financial Officer, MOPAC
- Sir Craig Mackey QPM, Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
- Lynda McMullan, Director of Finance, Metropolitan Police Service
- David Gallie, Assistant Director, Group Finance, GLA
The meeting will take place on Thursday, 4 January from 10.00am in the Chamber at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1).
Media and members of the public are invited to attend
The meeting can also be viewed LIVE via webcast or YouTube
Follow us @LondonAssembly and take part in the discussion using #AssemblyBudget and #MayorsBudget
Notes to editors
- The key responsibility of the Budget and Performance Committee is its annual scrutiny of the Mayor’s budget proposals for the next financial year. This involves detailed examination of the Mayor’s plans for spending his budget to help ensure taxpayers’ money is spent appropriately and effectively.
- The Mayor’s Budget
- Pre-Budget report
- Gareth Bacon AM, Chairman of the Budget & Performance Committee is available for interview. See contact details below.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For media enquiries, please contact Sonia Labboun on 020 7983 5769. For out of hours media enquiries, call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the London Assembly duty press officer. Non-media enquiries should be directed to the Public Liaison Unit on 020 7983 4100.