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  • Ion Pacific

    • Reference: 2017/3468
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 September 2017
    To ask the Mayor if he will join with me on congratulating the City of London on the recent news that the Asian merchant bank Ion Pacific has chosen to establish its new European headquarters in London - despite Brexit. ( http://www.cityam.com/269593/asian-merchant-bank-ion-pacific-expands-in… )

  • Rising London Salaries

    • Reference: 2017/3537
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 September 2017
    To ask the Mayor if he has seen the recent report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which states that: 'Starting salaries are rising at their fastest pace for 20 months as the departure of European workers after the Brexit vote squeezes the availability of suitable job candidates' and whether he thinks this development is good news for Londoners? http://news.sky.com/story/good-time-to-look-for-new-job-as-starting-sal…

  • Brexit

    • Reference: 2017/3547
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 September 2017
    I understand that are currently trying to persuade your colleagues in the Labour Party to commit to holding a second referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, in an attempt to halt Brexit. Given that the British People rejected David Cameron's apocalyptic prophecy of national economic meltdown in June 2016 and that unemployment has now fallen to lowest level since 1975, with inward investment at a record high, the odds are not in your favour. What will you do if you lose a second referendum, or will you insist on further referenda until you get the result you seek...

  • Football Clubs and the London Living Wage

    • Reference: 2017/2667
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    In Mayor's Question 2017/0342, I asked you what progress had been made in persuading London's professional football clubs to pay all of their staff the London Living Wage. I would ask you to revisit the response provided, which would appear to relate only to London's five Premiership clubs, rather than all of London's 13 professional football clubs.

  • Business Rates Revaluation

    • Reference: 2017/2668
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    To ask the Mayor what assessment he has made of the impact of the 1 April 2017 business rates revaluation on businesses in London's West End.

  • London Open for Business

    • Reference: 2017/2706
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    To ask the Mayor whether, in his address to the movers and shakers of the global elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland on 18 January 2017, he managed to persuade them that London is still open for business.

  • London, The World's Leading Financial Centre

    • Reference: 2017/2281
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
    Bearing in mind your commitment to be 'the most pro-business Mayor of London ever', would you join with me in congratulating the City of London on the announcement by the Global Financial Centres Index on 27 March 2017, that the top five financial centres in the world are London, followed by New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. (Luxembourg was 18th, Frankfurt 23rd, Paris 29th and Dublin 33rd).

  • Pershing Square Holdings

    • Reference: 2017/2330
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
    Are you aware that on 2 May 2017, Pershing Square Holdings launched a £3.6 billion close-ended investment fund on the London Stock Exchange Specialist Fund Market and do you think the City of London is flourishing in spite of, or because of, the Brexit referendum?

  • London's Unemployment Rate

    • Reference: 2017/2333
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
    What reasons do you think lie behind the increase in London's unemployment, with the city now having the highest rate of unemployment of any region of the UK. According to the Office of National Statistics, the rate in London is now 6.1%, compared to the South East of England with an unemployment rate of 3.5%, 4.8% in Wales, 5.3% in Northern Ireland and 5.9% in the North East of England?

  • Brexit

    • Reference: 2017/1703
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
    Do you still believe that a so-called 'hard Brexit' will 'rip Britain apart', as you told the World Economic Forum at Davos on 18 January this year?