The Mayor’s Budget for 2024-25
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724 Londoners have responded | 19/12/2023 - 10/01/2024
Every year in December, the Mayor publishes his Consultation Budget for the year ahead.
This document sets out how he intends to deliver his priorities within the funding available to the GLA (Greater London Authority) and its five functional bodies. Together they're called the GLA Group.
The Mayor’s part of the council tax rates for 2024-25 are set as part of this budget process. They may need to rise by an additional £37.26 for an ‘average’ Band D household. This is the equivalent of around £3.10 a month.
The Mayor’s Budget focuses on a number of priorities, including:
- Keeping London safe, by being tough on crime and the causes of crime.
- Ensuring the Met and London Fire Brigade both have the resources they need to reform and serve Londoners effectively.
- Building more council homes and the homes Londoners can afford.
- Maintaining a world-class transport network in London.
- Continuing to offer free skills training to anyone who is unemployed or in low-paid work.
- Providing additional support for people during the cost-of-living crisis.
- Providing a mentor to all young Londoners in need and positive opportunities to young Londoners at risk of getting caught up in gangs and crime.
- Investing in green projects so we can continue to lead the way on tackling air pollution and the climate emergency – from making our buses zero-emission to planting over half a million trees.
What do you think of these priorities?
Tell us in the discussion below and help inform the final Budget.
The discussion ran from 19 December 2023 - 10 January 2024
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Community Member 1 year agoA functioning planning and legal system. Less ownership of property by offshore companies. A viable banking system that takes into account long-term rent paid rather than salary when deciding on mortgage affordability. Unless young people...
Show full commentA functioning planning and legal system. Less ownership of property by offshore companies. A viable banking system that takes into account long-term rent paid rather than salary when deciding on mortgage affordability. Unless young people and families can afford to live in London, it will die. A City strangled by greed! The Mayor's off seems more interested in sound bites than getting to grips with and understanding the real issues facing this City, therefor pointless.
Show less of commentmossy
Community Member 1 year agoAffordable housing to rent and lots of it. Lobby Labour to end right to buy.
Show full commentAffordable housing to rent and lots of it. Lobby Labour to end right to buy.
Show less of commentoliverg8sr
Community Member 1 year agoLearn from how Paris is tackling congestion and pollution. Tax ICE cars and other vehicles more in line with the damage that they do to health and productivity, impose stringent noise and pollution limits for building sites, make the ULEZ...
Show full commentLearn from how Paris is tackling congestion and pollution. Tax ICE cars and other vehicles more in line with the damage that they do to health and productivity, impose stringent noise and pollution limits for building sites, make the ULEZ stricter. Invest in active travel. Clamp down on waste.
Show less of commentDavidTarsh
Community Member 1 year agoI couldn't disagree more.
TK
Community Member 1 year agoRamp up active travel provision - faster, further, better. Make active travel the number one choice for getting around London. Get people out of cars, off public transport. The personal health benefits are considerable and the community...
Show full commentRamp up active travel provision - faster, further, better. Make active travel the number one choice for getting around London. Get people out of cars, off public transport. The personal health benefits are considerable and the community benefits are massive.
Show less of commentDavidTarsh
Community Member 1 year agoThat's fine if you are fortunate enough to be fit and have a journey suited to a bike but millions just don't and these strident demands are totally inconsiderate of the needs of others
Ben Burt
Community Member 1 year agoTop priority should be dealing with the climate emergency in ways that improve people's lives by promoting cheap renewable energy and home insulation, providing employment in green industries and improving the environment.
crh
Community Member 1 year agoI'd like to see tackling the climate emergency as the first priority - and one that should inform all other decisions. So, for example, much needed new council homes must be carbon-zero and insulating houses must be a priority as it will...
Show full commentI'd like to see tackling the climate emergency as the first priority - and one that should inform all other decisions. So, for example, much needed new council homes must be carbon-zero and insulating houses must be a priority as it will greatly reduce people's cost of living as well as saving energy so lowering emissions.
Show less of commentCiaran
Community Member 1 year agoWe need to build way more council homes for working households; especially low and medium income households
Show full commentThis could be paid with a localised wealth tax placed on those working in the City and surrounding boroughs; if the City is not in...
We need to build way more council homes for working households; especially low and medium income households
This could be paid with a localised wealth tax placed on those working in the City and surrounding boroughs; if the City is not in your purview then a one off hypothecated tax placed on householders with assets in excess of £1000000
Council tax needs to go up significantly for those in Bands D - H; double - triple times easily
This money could go into existing council sites; building additional stories on blocks should be a big consideration
Show less of commentAlso planning permission to be given to extend two story terraces into 3/4 story terraces and builders / planners trained up to do this
Faramir
Community Member 1 year agoThe thing about wealth taxes is that people move - when France introduced a wealth tax under Hollande some of their wealthiest people and job creators moved out, some of them to the UK. That would be even more likely to happen if the tax...
Show full commentThe thing about wealth taxes is that people move - when France introduced a wealth tax under Hollande some of their wealthiest people and job creators moved out, some of them to the UK. That would be even more likely to happen if the tax applied only to a small locality.
Show less of commentBKeith
Community Member 1 year agoproposed rate increase is too high. Money should be saved in Mayors office etc and by removing stupid things like cycling lanes that actually increase stopped traffic and pollution. Most of the items above are OK but there should be a lot...
Show full commentproposed rate increase is too high. Money should be saved in Mayors office etc and by removing stupid things like cycling lanes that actually increase stopped traffic and pollution. Most of the items above are OK but there should be a lot more focus on improving efficiency of the infrastructure we have.
Show less of commentTK
Community Member 1 year agoThe problem is not too many cycle lanes, it's too few. London has too many drivers, not enough cyclist, scooterists, pedestrian. One person/one car should be as socially unacceptable as smoking in public places.
Mick Brown
Community Member 1 year agoA properly nuanced approach which:
- encourages walking/cycling for those who are able;
- provides affordable, reliable and effective public transport services (catering for shift workers as well as usual daytime travel) for those who either...
Show full commentA properly nuanced approach which:
is required.
Show less of commentBobHorton
Community Member 1 year agoIgnoring climate change and 'green' policies is short-sighted. In the near future, when sea levels and temperatures have risen and more of the world is uninhabitable, we will look back and wish we had planned ahead. The costs for us in...
Show full commentIgnoring climate change and 'green' policies is short-sighted. In the near future, when sea levels and temperatures have risen and more of the world is uninhabitable, we will look back and wish we had planned ahead. The costs for us in that future will be astronomical. I am too old to be part of that future but my children and grand-children will be.
Show less of commentKLewis
Community Member 1 year agoPeople need enough money to pay for their homes, utilities, food - the basics. Out Council Tax is going up to pay for the Mayor’s vanity projects
ampm123
Community Member 1 year agoCrack down on Airbnb and short term rentals that are pushing Londoners out of the city. We cannot compete, not even on a high income, with people paying £300 a night. Housing should be the number one priority, unless we want to end up like...
Show full commentCrack down on Airbnb and short term rentals that are pushing Londoners out of the city. We cannot compete, not even on a high income, with people paying £300 a night. Housing should be the number one priority, unless we want to end up like Venice - a ghost city with no residents, no businesses, only touristy gimmicky places.
Show less of commentWith cheaper housing we’ll be able to spend more of our money on local businesses, dining out, enjoying everything that our amazing and beautiful city has to offer, instead of giving it to greedy landlords (many of whom are shell corporations who do not spend the profits of the rentals in our city or country).
Careoline
Community Member 1 year agoAll of the above are important; but i am very upset and angry that Sadiq spoke in favour of continuing to give billions of the people's money to kill Palestinian children and their mothers.
Edre
Community Member 1 year agoAffordable housing for all, cleaner city air, more green spaces, fairer pay for key workers, policing the police, more city sponsored courses and activities for young people.
jan.mayn
Community Member 1 year agoGetting rid of ULEZ would help the low paid and everyone.
Show full commentGetting rid of ULEZ would help the low paid and everyone.
Show less of commentBen Burt
Community Member 1 year agoNonsense. We need cleaner air and better public transport
TK
Community Member 1 year agoIt would certainly help the low paid die earlier from lung diseases.
EnigmaG
Community Member 1 year agocancel ULEZ is the most important
Show full commentcancel ULEZ is the most important
Show less of commentwilliamoliver
Community Member 1 year agoBuilding more homes that Londoners can afford
Show full commentBuilding more homes that Londoners can afford
Show less of commentsnowball
Community Member 1 year agoI keep heating promises but all I end up with is emptier pockets
dtwells
Community Member 1 year agoThe only real crisis facing London and the whole country is over population. No politician either local or national dare even think about this let alone speak about it.
N106302
Community Member 1 year agoAll these things are important, but vital omissions are support for arts, music, and culture, and support for sports and exercise facilities, especially swimming pools. These have suffered swingeing price hikes and increasing lengths of...
Show full commentAll these things are important, but vital omissions are support for arts, music, and culture, and support for sports and exercise facilities, especially swimming pools. These have suffered swingeing price hikes and increasing lengths of 'peak time' in the last two years, which combined with the re-introduction of the twirly condition on the pensioners' freedom pass conspired to increase the price of my previous early morning swim by 600% overnight! Opening hours have also been curtailed.
I think sports facilities such as pools & playing fields, gyms etc, should be classified as health centres rather than leisure centres, to reflect their importance in keeping the population fit and healthy, and saving money for the NHS. Consider the benefit to society if half the cost of an unhealthy and unfit population were to be spent on maintaining and improving the availability of such facilities.
Show less of commentMick Brown
Community Member 1 year agoAccess to truly affordable, not-for-profit, decent housing, access to proper full time employment paying as an absolute minimum the living wage and access to affordable and reliable transport are key building blocks, probably the...
Show full commentAccess to truly affordable, not-for-profit, decent housing, access to proper full time employment paying as an absolute minimum the living wage and access to affordable and reliable transport are key building blocks, probably the foundations upon which the rest can be built.
Ignoring simple greed and/or envy, a cause of crime will always be social deprivation the removal of which is within the gift of local and central government, should they so choose to exercise.
Show less of commentCareoline
Community Member 1 year ago'Not to mention' as they say, giving millions and millions of the people's money to buy deadly weapons of destruction to slaughter Palestinian children, their mothers and the medical staff who are trying to save lives.
hampshirehog
Community Member 1 year agoJust needs HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH and the HOUTHIS to stop their violence and it would soon become peaceful again.