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• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning, Chair. Good morning to the guests. For my question, could I start by asking Matthew about small businesses? It might be most pertinent. It is a question I asked of the Mayor quite recently. What will you do to encourage people to return to their places of work as much as possible? When we are talking about the economic microsystems and ecosystems of the city, it is people not being in offices and so on that basically will cause - and indeed has caused - the system to collapse completely. The point has to be...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Peter Whittle AM: Deputy Mayor, good morning. I noticed that in your reply to one of the Assembly Members you had a good old go at Brexit and the problems faced by musicians. Isn’t wonderful, though, that because we are no longer in the EU, we have had a fantastic rollout of vaccines, 20 million, which includes all of those creative people and includes all of those musicians? Is that not wonderful? Presumably, you are quite happy that we are not in one of those European countries where it has been so lamentable and appalling. Yes or no.

• Reference: 2020/4243
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 11 December 2020

What has been the outcome of the Metropolitan Police's review into the security failure at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day (11 November 2020), when activists from Extinction Rebellion hijacked the event?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you very much, Mr Chair. Good morning to the panel. My question I think I have to ask you all, and maybe someone can answer it. It is just about London’s - if you want to call it - cultural industry. I do not mean by that necessarily the creative industry. I mean in terms of theatre, in terms of performing arts, in terms of all the things that make up a huge part of London life and, of course, the economy. What are your views on the future of that? How do you see that...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Deputy Chairman. Lyn, could I ask you a few questions about the Cultural Quarter, carrying on from Assembly Member Shah and Assembly Member Bacon? You mentioned earlier the BBC, Sadler’s Wells, the V&A. Is that all set in stone now? Is that the final count, as it were?

• Reference: 2018/2974
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

In February we learned that London had witnessed a 20% increase in rapes between January 2017 and January 2018. The Evening Standard reported the following on 23 rd February 2018: Asked at a London Assembly hearing if he had any idea what was behind the rise, Sir Craig said: “No, is the honest answer. It’s not as simple as saying this is increased confidence. Of course, that plays a part but there is something going on with sexual offending in London that we don’t fully understand, the causes of it. We see the end of it, [but] we don’t understand...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

Peter Whittle AM: Good morning. Like my colleague David, I really would like to commend you for, first of all, the straightforwardness of your answers and the sense of possibility amongst them and the enthusiasm, which it is infectious. You are not being waylaid by issues such as Brexit or, indeed, HS2 for that matter. That was another one. I am very glad to hear that that would not be fatal.

• Reference: 2017/4151
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

With the housing market currently stagnating due to record house prices, banks clamping down on mortgage lending through tougher affordability criteria and interest rate rises looming on affordability requirements, are the current plans by the LLDC just too ambitious?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Chair. David, good morning. I notice that one of the planks of the whole development is going to be the Cultural and Education District. This is absolutely to do with the long-term finances of the whole project. I notice that apparently for the construction costs originally, for example, for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), you were looking at philanthropic donation to cover it. That has been abandoned and now you are going to underwrite it. According to your draft budget submission it is now assumed the museum building development will be repaid through a...

• Reference: 2017/0357
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 08 February 2017

Foreign direct investment (FDI) adds value to London's economy, both in terms of capital expenditure and new jobs created. In 2014, 22,000 new jobs were created in London, as a direct result of foreign-owned companies expanding, or relocating to London. Understandably, targeting and securing this investment is an increasingly competitive business. What impact does LEAP consider the prime minister's current roadmap out of the EU will have on London's FDI.