Have your say on London's budget for 2022–23

Yes, we need adequate Police funding.

Transport has become a money pit. Stop funding wasteful projects.

It is not the job of the Mayor to build homes. As has been established over many decades, such projects tend to wast vast amounts of our money.

Business support. I own and run a "one man business" so am at what might be thought of as "the sharp end". We do not need support, we need protection from the Mayor and his seemingful wasteful policies.

"Skilling up" isn't English. I think I know what you mean, but re-word it in English for a comment.

Agreed about tackling pollution, but not by the "cash cow" demands on motorists.

Young Londoners need proper education. Nothing else, they all need help to leave school fit for the jobs market.

This allocation seems an incredibly small amount for young people. Could this initiative help in some way to help to divert youngsters away from knife crime / violence and into something beneficial like vocational training and jobs?
Keeping our transport system working is incredibly important to Londoners so very supportive of provision of money to TfL - but could we please not have more strikes
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It is impossible to take the Mayor seriously. What did the Mayor most famously do during the pandemic? What was a priority? 'The Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm'. From its website "... an initiative established by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to review and access public tributes including statues and other landmarks." When your tax increases next year remember, at least the Mayor is spending your money keeping himself sufficiently woke in the eyes of his target electorate.

I agree with mixed tenure of accommodation for people in the city. I am a nurse by background and have been living in London for 20 years it has been difficult to afford to rent over the years and I was able to get into the shared ownership scheme, that is now available to everyone on the basis of a small deposit. However what is becoming more noticeable over time, as I move to my second SA is the integrity of the buildings. They often are handed over with design and defects and yet the builder is unwilling to put these right. It seems even though you're liable for the whole property irrespective of the percentage you own, they aren't always willing to put their errors right leaving it a cost to you. Homeowners are left to manage the HA and the builder relationship which is unfair and involves much time off work. Properties are often near main roads, the heating systems have not been fully understood, I truly believe in Green energy but we really need to scrutinise these new systems before they are placed into properties. Or at least look at ones that are effective. As I first hand experienced, the monthly cost for electricity was about £60 for me and me alone plus £30 monthly servicing and breakdown charge. Those who buy outright would not have to endure this. It's a hidden issue that people just aren't aware of until after purchasing. More needs to be done to ensure that building new builds/conversion are done by reputable building companies and then managed by HA's with the understanding that there are open market as opposed to Shared ownership. This appears to affect and change everything.

My concern is one that bidders and developers for building more genuinely affordable homes for Londoners do not care about Londoners. They care about them selves. This phenomenon squeezing houses, flats in places, streets, alleyways, residential garages or parking shelters being converted should stop.
This cannot happen in Maida Vale, why should it be allowed in parishes where the vulnerable and poor people live in the city of Westminster, if we go by statistics. There are many examples.
Serious consideration should be given to the residents in the area first and their views not left in disregard.
Great to a be Londoner. Everyone needs a lot of space. Thank you.

Please can you ensure that Housing Associations do not target those who have fallen on hard times due to Covid. No above inflation rent increases and more support for those finding it budget with the huge fuel prices increase. No to choosing between paying rent or having food on the table.

With the increase in pension age and more elderly doing part-time work, Please can you change the 60 plus oyster card so that it can operate before at all times, not just after 9am.

The elderly part-time workers add significant value to the economy and yet are struggling to make ends meet with the very limited statepensions they receive.

No more increases to council taxes - it’s unaffordable to myself and many others. Increase it majorly for the rich in their mansions thanks. It is not in proportion to income at all. My local council fails to do anything with their already vast incomes like provide a large amount of housing for locals, repair roads, pavements, clear litter/ fly tips, protect the environment, safe colleges.

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TfL needs to be restructured with tube driver salaries brought in line with wider market rates and the union job monopoly disbanded. Not a penny more until this is done.

Until Covid, London had an outstanding transport system, and I worry that the Tories will try to break it up completely, as they have done with the buses and the trains, and tried to do with London Underground. I know they will do whatever they can to remove the current Labour mayor. I'm happy to support the increase in Council tax, but I worry that it will hit the poor unfairly. GLA must do whatever it can to make sure that people like me - the relatively rich and the rich - support those who are less well off. Given the cost of living increase and the increased energy bills it is more urgent than ever that Londoners support each other to ensure that London remains a place where everyone can enjoy life in one of the best capital cities in the world. And that includes making it safer for cyclists.

Happy to see TfL funding given the central government inexplicably has abandoned it, and so long as the affordable housing is genuinely affordable then I'm all in favour of that too, but there's nowhere near enough funding going towards walking/cycling infrastructure and green initiatives. Indeed, £874m to the Met Police, but just £20m to develop a Green New Deal, shows that our priorities seem a bit skewed as I would argue that policing isn't 44 times more important than preventing environmental breakdown.

I find it shocking the amount going to the Met Police in an effort to be 'tough on the causes of crime' when by now surely it is widely understood that education, poverty eradication and various forms of social support lower crime - not punitive measures. How on earth can that be accomplished by the Met Police alone?

That aside, why still are the average Londoners being further squeezed to cover these costs? This city is outpricing most of us, those who cannot even afford to own the roofs over our heads. These expenses can be covered by taxing those with huge excesses of wealth.

I think an increased policing budget is not a priority; more money should be allocated to affordable homes. I'd like to see more money allocated to green initiatives, an improved bus infrastructure and fines introduced for failing to recycle waste and fly tipping. The 20mph speed limit also needs to be enforced more stringently.

I’d like to see TfL invest its money more widely to begin with and for the mayor to cut waste.
TfL are about to spend taxpayers money for 20mph speed limits in Westminster despite the majority objecting at public consultation
The borough wide 20mph in Lewisham failed with speed reducing by only 0.5mph and an increase in casualties.
I want to see TfL spend less money on this sort of activity and more supporting buses in Outer London eg in Bromley.

Put a budget in place for Redbridge Council and Havering Council to tackle the rampant and severe car noise coming from cars that have illegally modified exhausts. Redbridge Council and Havering Council need a full consultation because both these councils are failing to tackle a major environmental problem that is impacting public health and the stress it incurs.
Both of these councils urgently need noise acoustic CCTV installed everywhere throughout The London Borough of Redbridge and The London Borough of Havering.

It is quite likely that transport usage in London will change long term. The number of commuters may never return to pre pandemic levels. Off peak frequency levels may be adequate throughout the day. This would mean that fewer numbers of trains, buses and staff would be required. However the dreadful labour relations especially on the Underground need to be sorted out. For example the unilateral action of the RMT over night tube staffing rosters is an insult to all those Londoners who have been hit hard by the pandemic but are expected to pay higher fares and taxation as though it is business as normal.
The costs of most new infrastructure projects as a rule seem to go over budget. However the size of the overspend on The Elizabeth Line seems to break all records. There needs to be much more stringent control over new projects. Crossrail 2 would be nice to have but will there be demand for it?Let's first see how many people use Crossrail 1.
It is sad to see that the bus network is under most pressure. An easy target perhaps.There have already been severe cut backs to many routes. It would help the efficiency of the bus network if the creators of the many anti car measures, e.g cycle lanes, Lower Traffic Neighbourhoods, really took into account the real life damage they do to bus schedules.
We need a transport system that is based on demand rather than ideology.
A reason why we need more police is the poor clear up rates for crimes such as burglary, anti social behaviour, etc. We need to get back to Neighbourhood policing.
The proposed increase in the Mayor's budget is of concern. It is inflationary. It will take resources away from the private sector where they may be better spent. And it creates a precedent for ongoing inflationary increases. At the very least, we need to be constantly assured that we are getting Value for Money.