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• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. I want to speak a little bit more about the issue of fraud, building on Assembly Member Garratt’s line of questioning. I was absolutely shocked to see that fraud constitutes 41% of all crime committed in the UK and costs the UK £137 billion each year. Commissioner, I just wanted to ask if there is anything you wanted to expand on in terms of how confident you feel in the MPS’s ability to get a handle on tackling fraud. Then I will move on to yourself, Mr Mayor, to ask what we are doing...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. I want to address some questions to the Commissioner. It sounds like a very simple question: the items that garner the news talk about ambulances stuck outside hospitals, with paramedics being detained there, unable to let people go into the hospital because the beds are full. However, we also know that the police are sometimes ending up at hospitals for lengthy periods and it does not catch the news quite to the same degree. My very simple question to you is: how much time are our police officers spending on non-policing activities?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Building on the conversation that we are just finishing off with Assembly Member Marina Ahmad about the scrappage scheme. I thought it would be worth, given that we have had a back and forth and were looking for lessons learned, drilling down a little bit more into the review of the London-wide ULEZ Integrated Impact Assessment. In front of me it says: “TfL is reviewing the effectiveness of the previous ULEZ scrappage scheme that enabled over 15,000 polluting vehicles to be removed from London’s roads to inform the development of any future scheme.” It...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Sorry, I thought we were going to hear from the rest of the Conservatives before we moved over to anybody else. I would like to speak to Lyn Garner and I would also like to say to Assembly Member Garratt, who is not privy to these discussions, that the Mayor was not invited today. That is why he is not here. It has nothing to do with his diary being full or otherwise. It is sad that you do not know about these things from your Group leader, perhaps. Lyn, do you...

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon to the panel; it is great to have you join us here today to discuss the legacy of the London Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. You are absolutely right, Jules [Pipe CBE], about needing to assess this on a regional, local, and national scale in terms of what we have achieved. But I am going to be zoning in to the local a little bit. I wanted to start with you, Lyn, about asking has the Olympic Park met the regeneration commitments for the host boroughs? Then I might move on...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I want to come back to the issue about what percentage of the AEB - which I understand is £318 million in total - is being spent on supporting people into training for low-carbon, circular economy, climate-ready jobs. I am being very specific about what they are.

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to Jules and Michelle. It is good to see you again. I certainly enjoyed hearing from you yesterday [7 March 2022] at our Economy Committee and from the whole panel. It is really clear that adult education has a huge and long-lasting effect on Londoners’ ability to reach their full potential. I just wanted to speak to how we ensure that we reach all Londoners equally and make sure all groups in our society are represented and, to that end, I wanted to ask what progress the AEB made in tackling...