How will the Mayor’s budget deliver for Londoners?
The Mayor published his Consultation Budget and Draft Capital Spending Plan for 2025-26 on 4 December 2024, which included total Greater London Authority (GLA) Group budgeted expenditure for 2025-26 of £21.4 billion.1
The London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee will meet tomorrow to question the Mayor of London on his draft consolidated budget for 2025-26, looking specifically at:
- Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime/Metropolitan Police Service (MOPAC/MPS)
- Transport for London (TfL)
- Housing
- Universal Free School Meals.
Following the first part of the meeting with the Mayor, the Committee will question a panel of external experts to discuss the impact of the draft budget.
Guests include:
Panel 1:
- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
- David Bellamy, Mayor’s Chief of Staff
- Fay Hammond, Chief Finance Officer, GLA
Panel 2:
- Stuart Hoggan, Associate Consultant, LG Futures
- Antonia Jennings, CEO, Centre for London
- Tony Travers, LSE Department of Government and Director of LSE London
- Stephanie Pollitt, Programme Director, Housing, BusinessLDN
- Michael Roberts, CEO, London TravelWatch
Panel 3:
- Ian Wiggett, Associate Director, World Policing Advisory
- Prof Gloria Laycock, UCL Jill Dando Institute and the Community Policing and Police Science Institute
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 8 January from 10am, in the Chamber at City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, E16 1ZE.
Media and members of the public are invited to attend.
The meeting can also be viewed LIVE or later via webcast or YouTube.
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Notes to editors
- P13, GLA Group Budget Proposals and Precepts 2025-26, December 2024
- Read the agenda papers.
- Neil Garratt AM, Chairman of the Budget and Performance Committee, is available for interview.
- Find out more about the work of the Budget and Performance Committee.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For more information, please contact Tony Smyth in the Assembly Media Office on 07763 251727 or [email protected]. For out of hours media enquiries please call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the Assembly duty press officer.