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

The problem is people. There are millions of people living and working in London. In 10/15 years there will be 10 million extra people living in London and the UK.
There is a finite amount of resources that cannot cover the needs of all London people. Police NHS and housing. Totteridge area alone has hundreds of new flats being built and non for the homeless. Homeless people cannot get jobs as they do not have an address. They are not drug addicts or alcoholics.
One solution would be to build about 10 miles outside London with adequate infrastructure for commuters. This will have to be done eventually. People are living in congested areas allowing for quick spread of disease and use of limited resources.
Regarding pollution. For a start ban or charge 25% vat on wipes with plastic in them which is blocking sewerage,

Echoing the below comments, investing in housing, healthcare and services is what London needs - not an increased police budget. Rather than expanding the powers of the police and expecting them to perform all these other duties (social worker, support worker, etc.), why are social workers and other specialist support services not given the necessary funding to be able to support our London community? The remit of the police needs to be narrowed, not widened to an unmanageable level. If we are serious about prevention - funding priorities must be reconsidered.

Really disappointed at the funding increase for the police, and TFL compared to the paltry amount set aside for ‘green’ new deal. Giving the police additional money doesn’t solve crime - job generation would be much more effective. This is also a police force that refuse to investigate crimes that happened in the past. I think TFL funding is important but not when we spend all the money improving bank station and not supporting useful expansions such as servicing South East London and other areas that have been historically ignored and underfunded.

It is important for the Mayor to place skills and adult education as a core part of his budget commitments, and the recovery plan for London. Now is the time for the Mayor to recognise the importance of establishing a culture of lifelong learning that embraces all forms of learning throughout our lives. Learning gives people purpose, it’s a reason to get up and be excited, and to share that experience with other people brings much-needed connectedness at a time when it is all too easy to become isolated. We’re all living and working longer, we all need to continue to discover, learn and thrive throughout our lives.

I have the honour of working at City Lit – the largest adult education college – and we believe that outcomes of learning such as improved confidence; better communication skills; improved wellbeing; removing isolation and loneliness, are as important to our national recovery as developing skills that support economic recovery. These life skills are essential underpinnings to economic aspirations and employability, and we hope the government will recognise this in their current consultation.

Alongside other Institutes for Adult learning, City Lit works hard to ensure that all adults, whatever their age or stage in life, can receive high-quality education and learning throughout their lives. We work hard to ensure that everyone is enabled to learn and improve themselves as well as to hold roles and responsibilities within their communities. These institutions also provide pastoral support to many, on top of meeting the educational needs of their students.

The recovery after Covid is a huge challenge and adult education clearly has a vital role to play. But, this will take the right level of investment and support to enable real success.

In fact, I am reminded of a piece I wrote for the TES: https://www.tes.com/magazine/archived/london-mayoral-election-why-lifel….

Surely the Mayor is not stupid enough to think that supplementing the police addresses the causes of crime, or giving more money to the fire brigade addresses the issues that caused the Grenfell Tower tragedy... As usual, this just looks like dishonest decision making from our leaders. How much crime do you think there would be if there was enough social housing, provisions for young peoples' education and training, and if everyone was paid decent living wages? When will people be prioritised over the corporations and institutions that exploit them? The percentage of money allocated towards providing stability to the least privileged in our society in the form of social housing, compared to the hundreds of billions of pounds allocated to control those populations is very telling indeed.

I am talking about severely disabled people who like my friend have mnd like what Stephen hawking had a car is a lifeline and getting around London is a nightmare where half of roads are taken by cycle lanes causing congestion and cyclists don’t pay anything to road tax and want all these lanes

It is an obstacle if your 60 and disabled maybe they should ask for a lane for mobility scooters
The disabled and elderly are forgotten about, some can’t cycle they can just about walk and a car is a lifeline
But they don’t matter is the cry

Tonydoona, age is no obstacle to cycling. I am 65 and I don't work in central London either, but I cycle everywhere because it is the least polluting form of transport available to me. I owe it to my fellow citizens not to filthy the air by driving in London. We all do.

£20 million for the Green New Deal is not nearly enough. We need much greater investment in active travel and cycling infrastructure, including schemes to make cycling in London safer than it is. There are still too many dangerous junctions that put would-be cyclists off cycling, but that could be made safer for relatively modest amounts. And the cycle lane network needs to be segregated from motor traffic and joined-up.

Why are we spending £33m to develop a new green deal plus a new deal for young people, with a promise that this will create thousands of jobs, who for, I can only guess more management consultants to cogitate and contemplate until the next election and then fall by the wayside. As normal local and regional authorities are using this as a cash cow painted green. But I guess if they all cycle to work and turn the lights off when they leave the office we can claim the carbon reduction figures applied to the GLA.
It is businesses and business leaders that will drive carbon reductions, energy is expensive, companies are competing for staff by offering nice spaces to work. Not more pointless regulation and meaningless direction. Planning rules are already in place for this.

Once again, even more money for TFL. This is not a vanity scheme it is a multi-million pound business, carrying millions of passengers each year, alongside this collecting huge amounts from motorists on a daily basis. Why is it not self sufficient, if this were privately owned and operated it would be a net contributor to the economy not a huge drag.
Stop the vanity works, allow the transport to operate efficiently to suit the needs of the capital and reduce the number of free travel perks, at the moment the only people on the network paying full fare seem to be those between 25 and 60, as long as they don`t work in the vast TFL empire or know somebody that does.
Massive amounts of money is being squandered every day on cycle lanes, pedestrianisation schemes, road closures, surveillance cameras. TFL should be providing a joined up planned and engineered transport network for London, this includes all Londoners as well as all people visiting whether for business or pleasure. Instead the Mayor has taken a decision to work towards his future political ends and go to war with the Central Government Organisations. it is he who has bankrupted TFL not the pandemic and again we are being asked to fund his ego.

You need to build more car charging points, especially near flat blocks, to encourage people to switch to EVs.

The Congestion Charge should be 24 hours a day/7 days a week - the night economy exception is ridiculous and totally misplaced. This would be a source of revenue for TfL. Additionally more of the budget should be dedicated to promoting active travel and getting people out of their cars.

Re chbagr comments about crime and i have said before if TFL ussed the cctv cameras more on crime instead of catching motorists out for minor road traffic offences they would be less crime, i am ex forces and cameras should be there to combat crime and prevent terrorist activities..

How will pensioners be able to pay for these tax rises? We are still paying for the Olympic precept (tax to pay for the olympics) even though the debt on the olympics have been paid off (see https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/gareth-bacon/mayor-ke…). Everytime the Mayors want more money they mention building new affordable homes. Where are these home we have been waiting for for years? Sadik Khan, stop raising taxes and start being efficient at what you have been elected to do. We are sick of excuses and blame games. This is your second term and things have not changed. Oh! and don't blame the pandemic!

Extend the congestion charge zone, increase the charge, remove the exceptions for the polluting buses and black cabs, get rid of the chronic over staffing within LUL, so many staff employed to sit in glass boxes, who don’t collect fares, who don’t enforce payment or wearing of masks, ignore antisocial behaviour. Increase the number of enforcement and Transport Police who do doe something worthwhile.

Here at the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham tenants and leaseholders pay an additional ‘levy’ of £25.00/year for community policing, and have done since early 2016. This is up for review before the next council tax assessment. The initial agreement gave residents two constables for the funding of one (BOGOF).
In year two the met renanged on this leaving us with half the number of officers. This grossly unfair tax on part of the community must be cancelled!
If the Mayor intends to increase council tax ‘across the board’ this seems fairer.