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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor. I just wanted to focus on this issue about fairness. I wondered if you thought that encouraging employers to pay the London Living Wage, would you say that is fair to try to increase the National Minimum Wage to the London Living Wage, and yet there is someone present in this room who said, “This would be the most damaging to the lowest skilled and lowest paid whose skills and value to the employers do not meet the London Living Wage”?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I would like to start with a question to Deputy Mayor Tom Copley, if I may. Hi, Tom. Last year, the Mayor said as the Chair of the C40 Cities Group, “One of my priorities is taking urgent action to address the causes and devastating human cost of forced migration created by the climate emergency”. I wondered if you could outline what actions overall the Mayor has taken in London since then?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Obviously, our condolences to Assembly Member Bailey on his loss that has prevented him from coming here this morning, but the issues that relate to the video footage and also the invitation that was sent out, talking about jingling and mingling, when mingling was specifically something we were asked not to do, overrides that. There are some really important principles relating to the Nolan Principles of Public Life and showing a better standard of upholding the law amongst people who have been elected. On that basis, I hear what you say about the peerage...

• Reference: 2022/3822
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Do you believe that Monday 19 th of September should be made into a national bank holiday as a mark of respect to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II?

• Reference: 2022/3291
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

You have previously said that introducing voter ID would be voter suppression and would disproportionately impact on ethnic minorities. Therefore, will you coordinate with councils in London on the impact of voter ID being unnecessarily bought in, looking specifically at what options could be used to help get ID to residents easily?

• Reference: 2022/2459
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

What London specific barriers have been identified that discourage or stop people from registering to vote?

• Reference: 2022/2460
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

One in eight Londoners is not registered to vote. What action is being taken to encourage people in London to register to vote?

• Reference: 2022/1065
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What has the Mayor been doing to help support more Ukrainian refugees coming to London?

• Reference: 2021/1061
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Many EU Londoners are still feeling uncertain about their future. What are you doing to urge EU Londoners to remain in London, to inform them of their rights and to advise them on securing settled status?

• Reference: 2021/0349
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

What practical steps can be taken here in London to tackle and minimise child poverty?