The Mayor’s Budget for 2024-25
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724 Londoners have responded | 19/12/2023 - 10/01/2024
Mayor’s 2024-25 Budget consultation
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 agoThe biggest item in the Mayor's budget is transport.
When it comes to management of the roads, money has been wasted on dogma-driven measures that turn perfectly safe driving into a criminal activity, jam up the traffic, waste people's time...
Show full commentThe biggest item in the Mayor's budget is transport.
When it comes to management of the roads, money has been wasted on dogma-driven measures that turn perfectly safe driving into a criminal activity, jam up the traffic, waste people's time unnecessarily, harm local businesses and so reduce the productivity of London's economy.
The Mayor and TfL need to understand that the job of the roads is to facilitate vehicles to get from A to B as swiftly as possible and its war on the motorist disproportionately persecutes the least fortunate.
Bike lanes like C9, which have increased congestion and have increased the cycle accident rate, urgently need to be dismantled. 20 mph speed limits on main roads need to be abolished; and unpopular schemes, like LTNs and ULEZ expansion (the latter is really a precursor to road pricing), which constrain our liberty, invade our privacy and drive customers away from local high streets must go too.
Many sets of traffic lights need to be re-phased to ensure the traffic flows.
Show less of commentWillPed
Community Member 1 year agoGood priorities. Keep it up!
Show full commentGood priorities. Keep it up!
Show less of commentOsmium12
Community Member 1 year agoFine but it is important to address the need to keep traffic moving and reduce jams especially for buses
Also there needs to be policy on public toilets - too few for an aging and growing population
mhendrickson
Community Member 1 year agoI suppose it's included in healthy ways to travel, but the pavements in my area are dreadful!
Show full commentI suppose it's included in healthy ways to travel, but the pavements in my area are dreadful!
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Community Member 1 year agoOne thing that is not mentioned is the provision of community meeting spaces. By this I mean places for groups of people from all parts of society to meet for friendship, fun, learning and shared experience, including groups for children...
Show full commentOne thing that is not mentioned is the provision of community meeting spaces. By this I mean places for groups of people from all parts of society to meet for friendship, fun, learning and shared experience, including groups for children and young people like scouts, guides and woodcraft folk, women's groups, men's groups and U3A., not to mention interest groups and health promoting groups. Most of these groups operate on a mutual basis, run by volunteers and aim to welcome people regardless of ethnicity, religion or politics - true common grounds. Many of these groups are no longer able to find affordable spaces, which are open when they are needed.
Show less of commentElizabethS
Community Member 1 year agoI broadly agree with tye priorities. Re housing, rather than more council housing I think we need far more community land trusts, resident-designed social rent co-ops and multi-tenure homes. Our councils run down stock so badly, tenants and...
Show full commentI broadly agree with tye priorities. Re housing, rather than more council housing I think we need far more community land trusts, resident-designed social rent co-ops and multi-tenure homes. Our councils run down stock so badly, tenants and leaseholders are continuously having to resort to the Ombudsman, the media and protest groups. We need genuinely affordable lifetime 3homes fully managed by the people who live in them, on the lines of the Coin Street developments, WECH and RUSS.
Show less of commentparkerp
Community Member 1 year agoInvesting in green projects should not be one of these priorities. It would be nice to see the Mayor actually focusing on cutting crime rather than woke issues.
Show full commentInvesting in green projects should not be one of these priorities. It would be nice to see the Mayor actually focusing on cutting crime rather than woke issues.
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