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The Mayor Is Elected by the People of London Every 14523 GLA Mayor lflt AW 10/9/02 3:42 PM Page 1 The Mayor is elected by the people of London The Mayor’s vision every four years. The next election will be in Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, wants 2004. The current Mayor is Ken Livingstone, who London to be: was elected in May 2000. • A prosperous city, in which all share in The Mayor represents London and Londoners, in the benefits of wealth created in London’s the UK and internationally. He takes a strategic dynamic economy. look at what is happening in London, drawing • A city for people, with safe, attractive streets, up policies for the social and economic where goods and services are within easy reach development of the city. and where everyone feels safe and secure. The Mayor’s powers and responsibilities are set • An accessible city, with fast, efficient and out in the Greater London Authority Act 1999. comfortable means of transport and access to This Act also covers the London Assembly and affordable homes, education and training, the Greater London Authority (GLA). health, leisure and recreation. • A fair city, showing tolerance and abolishing all forms of discrimination, where neighbourhoods and communities have a say in their future. • A green city, making efficient use of natural resources and energy, respecting the natural world and wildlife, using to the full the varied pattern of open space, eco-friendly design and construction methods, recycling waste and creating new ‘green’ industries. The job of the Mayor The Mayor sets the budget for the Metropolitan The Deputy Mayor Police Service (under the oversight of the The Mayor appoints one of the London Assembly Metropolitan Police Authority), Transport for members to be Deputy Mayor. The first Deputy London, the London Development Agency, the Mayor is Nicky Gavron. London Fire Brigade (under the oversight of The Working with the boroughs London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority) While the Mayor is responsible for taking a and the GLA. strategic view of London, looking at issues from He is responsible for setting policies on a Londonwide perspective, the London boroughs transport, buildings and land use, economic are responsible for providing many services for development and regeneration, culture and the London. The Mayor must work with the boroughs, environment. He has a duty to promote the particularly on planning, to ensure that there is health of Londoners. He must ensure that all of no conflict between what the boroughs do and the policies work together and that they benefit what the Mayor and the GLA do. all Londoners. Contact the Mayor You can write to the Mayor at City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA or email him at [email protected]. Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4100 minicom 020 7983 4458 August 2002 Photography: Jez Coulson, David Rose/Insight, Hayley Madden 14523 GLA assembly lflt AW 10/9/02 2:17 PM Page 1 WE ARE The London Assembly acts as a check and balance on the Mayor. Elected by the people of London, the Assembly consists of 25 members. London Assembly meetings They examine the Mayor’s activities, questioning The London Assembly has regular meetings him about his decisions and scrutinising his throughout the year, including committee policies. They are also able to investigate other meetings, scrutinies of the Mayor’s policies and issues of importance to Londoners. the monthly Mayor’s Question Time sessions, The current Assembly was elected in May 2000. in which they can question the Mayor on his The next elections will take place in 2004. policies. All are open to the public and they are held in the new purpose-built debating chamber Who are the London Assembly members? in City Hall. The 2000-04 London Assembly is made up of nine Labour members, nine Conservatives, four Liberal Scrutiny reports by the London Assembly Democrats and three Green party members. Recent investigative reports published by the London Assembly include: Fourteen of the members are elected to represent • London Weighting, the first review since 1974 particular areas of London. The other 11 are • Graffiti, the realities, the hazards, and how elected by a system of proportional representation much it is costing us and are known as Londonwide members. • London’s Green Spaces, how they can be The Chair and Deputy Chair of the London protected and maintained Assembly are selected by their fellow Assembly • Smoking in Public Places, how to get the members and they alternate each year. The balance right current Chair is Trevor Phillips and the Deputy • Reaching Out, on consultation and whether Chair is Sally Hamwee. the Mayor is listening • Public Transport in Outer London. Scrutinies in progress and due to come out during 2002/03: • The tube, future priorities • 24-hour licensing • Flooding • Asylum seekers. Contact the Assembly If you are interested in finding out more about the London Assembly’s work or obtaining copies of the reports, you can contact them via the Assembly Secretariat on 020 7983 4790. You can also contact the Assembly members directly. For details on the individual Assembly members and their constituencies, see the GLA website. Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4100 minicom 020 7983 4458 August 2002 Photography: Adam Hinton 14523 GLA the GLA lflt AW 10/9/02 2:23 PM Page 1 WE ARE GLA The Greater London Authority (GLA) was created as a new form of strategic citywide government, Open government consisting of an elected Mayor and a separately The GLA is committed to open and transparent elected Assembly in 2000. A core staff of around government. If you want to find out what the 500 people support the Mayor and the Assembly GLA has been doing, you can look in the Annual in their work. Report or read the Best Value Performance Plan The GLA stands apart from the London Summary or ON Magazine. All publications boroughs, looking at the needs of London as produced by the Mayor are available to the public. a whole and representing the city on a national Members of the public can put questions to and an international level. However, it must the Mayor on radio phone-in programmes or work with the London boroughs to ensure the at People’s Question Time (see Get Involved). Mayor’s policies are implemented effectively. For more information, contact the Public Liaison The Mayor of London Unit on 020 7983 4100 or see the GLA website. The first Mayor or London was elected in May 2000. He holds the office for a term of four years. How much does the GLA cost and who pays for it? The Mayor controls a budget of £4.7 billion. However, most of the budget goes to providing policing services for London and maintaining the transport network. In the 2002/03 budget, policing services made up 50 per cent of the total budget and transport 35 per cent. The cost of providing the GLA amounted to just 1 per cent of total expenditure. The money comes mostly from government grant. He is responsible for overseeing the organisations In 2002/03, Council Tax payers met about that deal with transport, policing, the London 10 per cent of the total bill. For an average Fire Brigade and economic development in Band D property, the annual cost was £173.88. London. These organisations are known as the GLA group and they are Transport for London, The London Assembly the Metropolitan Police Authority, the London The London Assembly holds the Mayor to Fire & Emergency Planning Authority and the account, acting as a check and balance on the London Development Agency. Mayor’s powers. It scrutinises his policies and decisions and undertakes research on its own He also has a duty to promote the health of into issues of importance to Londoners. Once Londoners, although the NHS in London is a month, it questions the Mayor in public at responsible for providing healthcare services Mayor’s question time. in the capital. London Assembly meetings are usually held in public. Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4100 minicom 020 7983 4458 August 2002 Photography: Adam Hinton 14523 GLA Group lflt AW 10/9/02 2:21 PM Page 1 WE ARE THE GLA GROUP The Greater London Authority (GLA) consists of the Mayor, the London Assembly and four organisations that look after transport, the police, the fire brigade and economic Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) development for London. These four Set up to oversee policing in London, the MPA organisations are known as the GLA group is responsible for maintaining an efficient and or GLA family. They are: effective police force in the Metropolitan Police • Transport for London District, setting targets for the police force and • the Metropolitan Police Authority monitoring them, and being accountable for the • the London Fire & Emergency budget. Policing services are provided by the Planning Authority Metropolitan Police Service. • the London Development Agency. The number of police officers in London The Mayor sets the budget for the GLA group is being increased by around 1,000 a year. and appoints people to the boards of the four By the end of 2003, the number of police organisations. Many of the board members are officers in London will have risen to 28,000. chosen from the London Assembly. Find out more at the Metropolitan Police Authority website at www.mpa.gov.uk. London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) Responsible for running the London Fire Brigade, LFEPA oversees the provision of firefighting services, as well as community fire safety programmes and emergency planning operations.
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