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• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning, Chair. Good morning to the guests. For my question, could I start by asking Matthew about small businesses? It might be most pertinent. It is a question I asked of the Mayor quite recently. What will you do to encourage people to return to their places of work as much as possible? When we are talking about the economic microsystems and ecosystems of the city, it is people not being in offices and so on that basically will cause - and indeed has caused - the system to collapse completely. The point has to be...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Peter Whittle AM: Deputy Mayor, good morning. I noticed that in your reply to one of the Assembly Members you had a good old go at Brexit and the problems faced by musicians. Isn’t wonderful, though, that because we are no longer in the EU, we have had a fantastic rollout of vaccines, 20 million, which includes all of those creative people and includes all of those musicians? Is that not wonderful? Presumably, you are quite happy that we are not in one of those European countries where it has been so lamentable and appalling. Yes or no.

• Reference: 2020/4243
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

What has been the outcome of the Metropolitan Police's review into the security failure at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day (11 November 2020), when activists from Extinction Rebellion hijacked the event?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you very much, Mr Chair. Good morning to the panel. My question I think I have to ask you all, and maybe someone can answer it. It is just about London’s - if you want to call it - cultural industry. I do not mean by that necessarily the creative industry. I mean in terms of theatre, in terms of performing arts, in terms of all the things that make up a huge part of London life and, of course, the economy. What are your views on the future of that? How do you see that...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Mr Chairman. There has been a lot of good progress on the Stadium in the last year or so, and the baseball, by the way, I thought was absolutely phenomenal. I have said that to you privately; I will say it now publicly. I thought it was a tremendous innovation, and I look forward to going again next year. Moving away from the Stadium, I want to pick up some of the points that Assembly Member Shah has just been talking about, about the Cultural Quarter. I am going from memory, not from my briefing...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Deputy Chairman. Lyn, could I ask you a few questions about the Cultural Quarter, carrying on from Assembly Member Shah and Assembly Member Bacon? You mentioned earlier the BBC, Sadler’s Wells, the V&A. Is that all set in stone now? Is that the final count, as it were?

• Reference: 2019/17037
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

What do you see as the key challenges for the LLDC over the coming years?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 06 December 2018

Gareth Bacon AM: I do not know who would be best to answer this. It is just a quick sally into finances. We are going to have a deeper dive on this next week when you are in front of the Budget and Performance Committee, but what is the most recent revenue forecast outturn for 2018/19? This was reported in August [2018] but, according to the London Fire Brigade papers, at the end of June the financial position was an underspend of £7.3 million, which is roughly 1.8% of your budget. Is that still the position or has that moved...

• Reference: 2018/2974
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

In February we learned that London had witnessed a 20% increase in rapes between January 2017 and January 2018. The Evening Standard reported the following on 23 rd February 2018: Asked at a London Assembly hearing if he had any idea what was behind the rise, Sir Craig said: “No, is the honest answer. It’s not as simple as saying this is increased confidence. Of course, that plays a part but there is something going on with sexual offending in London that we don’t fully understand, the causes of it. We see the end of it, [but] we don’t understand...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Gareth Bacon AM: This is to the Commissioner, Mr Brown. What are the financial implications of this?