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• Reference: 2020/4069
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Given the Government’s plans to give the Secretary of State for Housing the final say on planning applications relating to statues, due to their national significance, does the Mayor recognise that public statues in the capital have a national significance and agree that their future is not entirely a matter for local/devolved government?

• Reference: 2020/0140
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

To ask the Mayor, what percentage of rough sleepers in London are not UK nationals?

• Reference: 2019/20207
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Do you still regard Extinction Rebellion as, to use your word, 'Allies'?

• Reference: 2019/8899
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

You encouraged the Extinction Rebellion protests in the week before Easter, with arrested demonstrators claiming that their actions were effectively endorsed by you Tweeting: ‘We’re facing a climate emergency. I fully support the right of protesters to protest on this vital issue and urge organisers to work with police to ensure their demonstrations are peaceful and lawful and that disruption is kept to a minimum.’ However, the UK contributes a tiny fraction of global carbon emissions, just 1% and falling. By contrast, China produces 29% of the world’s CO2 emissions. How much responsibility you are going to shoulder for these...

• Reference: 2019/8903
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

To ask the Mayor is it true that protesters at the Extinction Rebellion protests before Easter were provided with prepared witness statements, designed to convince the courts that their actions were a “reasonable and proportionate response”? These documents advised protesters to tell officers that they have the support of the Mayor of London, who has declared a “climate emergency” in London.

• Reference: 2017/1711
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Did you have a good time rubbing shoulders with the movers and shakers of the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January?

• Reference: 2017/0323
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

With more than 700 allotment sites across Greater London, what can the Mayor do to make sure they are protected from development and so continue to act as social hubs and ecological oases, promoting not only healthy lifestyles, but also a place for children to learn?

• Reference: 2017/0324
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

Does the Mayor agree that affordable housing can often simply stoke up the housing bubble by introducing artificial demand at an artificially low price?

• Reference: 2017/0326
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

The UK trails Europe in the percentage of homes self-built. Can the Mayor commit to a self-build target on TFL land and so set an example for the rest of the country?

• Reference: 2017/0341
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

What is your position on the merger of Affinity Sutton and Circle Housing Group into a new 128,000-home housing association named Clarion Group, which it transpires, does not recognise the role of trade unions in the workplace?