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• Reference: 2023/4776
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

McKinsey research in September shows 5% of employees in a typical organisation had taken on a second full time job while already being employed. What work has the GLA done to reassure you that no staff are double dipping? Have any staff been caught doing just this since 2020 and how many? Were they dismissed?

• Reference: 2023/4801
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The last report of the London Finance Commission (LFC) was published in 2017. What plans do you have to reconvene the LFC to provide updated recommendations to Government?

• Reference: 2023/4802
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The 2017 London Finance Commission report, Devolution: A Capital Idea, made 25 recommendations to Government. In your current term, what progress have you made lobbying the Government on each of the recommendations grouped under Tax and Revenues (recommendations 2-7), and Land Value Capture (recommendations 9-10)?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. As my new year resolution for City Hall, I think we can all agree that the office of the Mayor of London should not be for sale in the new year. I made public earlier this week that United Airlines secured free publicity and final sign off on City Hall materials in exchange for business class flights for your trip to the United States [of America] (USA) in May 2022. Now, Mr Mayor, it sounds like this may have been a one-off error of judgement, but the months-long delay in responding to our questions...

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Zack Polanski AM: T hank you, Chair. On new year’s resolutions, what will be your relationship or the nature of your relationship with United Airlines in the future?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Chair. Talking of new year resolutions, will you resolve to continue to lobby the Government to provide proper funding for London rather than relying on increased council tax in order to support vital public services which are all facing unprecedented pressures?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. Diddly squat? Diddly squat? A £21 billion budget; I hardly would call that diddly squat. Look at just yesterday and you got £235 million from [The Rt Hon] Mark Harper [MP, Secretary of State for Transport], or our boroughs did. Thank goodness they are giving it mainly to the boroughs because it cannot be squandered by you. But all I would say to you, Mr Mayor, is that anybody that regards a budget of £21 billion as diddly squat really has no understanding at all of money. Thank you, Chair.

• Reference: 2023/4545
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Please provide me with the GLA’s actual and projected establishment numbers for 31 March 2022, 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2024? Please break down the figures by a) Full-Time Equivalent (FTEs) funded by GLA, b) FTEs funded externally and c) Total FTEs.

• Reference: 2023/4314
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

What action have you taken to push Government for multi-year funding settlements and fiscal devolution, including working with the other Metro Mayors on this agenda?

• Reference: 2023/4318
• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In December 2022 the Government announced that it had “paused reforms to local government funding through the Relative Review of Needs and Resources and a reset of accumulated business rates growth been paused for the remainder of this Spending Review [2022/23 to 2024/25]. We remain committed to improving the local government finance landscape in the next Parliament.” How is this delay impacting your ability to budget for ongoing activities in 2025/26 and beyond?