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• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

Can we look at the cost. We all understand the principles of trying to help people that are truly in need but it is right, is it not, that Housing Benefit costs have gone up by £10 billion since the beginning of the decade? It was about £11 billion in 2000/01 and it is now £21 billion, and if it were to go on then it would be £25 billion in the coming year if the reforms were not brought in. Jules Pipe, do you want to comment on that?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I want you to call a meeting here so that the Mayor and also the chairmen of these public bodies can brief us - the elected members of the GLA - on contingency plans for protecting London in the event of a terrorist act, or in fact of a strike of a public authority, which could render the capital inactive. This is very important and I think you should have this meeting instead of these odd little bits in answer to questions.