London Assembly

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The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds supermajority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies.^[1] The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners (most notably transport or environmental matters), publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the Mayor.

Assembly members

The Assembly comprises 25 members elected using the

One Assembly member, Jenny Jones, was elevated to the House of Lords as the Green Party's first life peer in 2013, continuing to sit in the Assembly until May 2016. Sally Hamwee, Graham Tope, and Toby Harris were already peers when elected to the Assembly, while Lynne Featherstone and Dee Doocey were created life peers after standing down from the Assembly.

However, since the general election of 2017, which resulted in a hung Parliament with the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party in a confidence and supply arrangement, no action has been taken with regard to the electoral arrangements of the London Assembly, and the 2020 election, delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was held on the current electoral system of AMS (constituencies and regional lists).

On 12 December 2018, following Peter Whittle's departure from UKIP, he and David Kurten disbanded the UKIP grouping and formed the Brexit Alliance group.

In March 2019, following the departure of

List of chairs of the London Assembly

Committees

The Assembly has formed the following committees:^[6]

• Audit Panel, chaired by Neil Garratt
• Budget and Performance Committee, chaired by Neil Garratt
• Confirmation Hearings Committee
• Economy Committee, chaired by Marina Ahmad
• Environment Committee, chaired by Leonie Cooper
• Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee, chaired by Anne Clarke
• GLA Oversight Committee, chaired by Emma Best
• Health Committee, chaired by Onkar Sahota
• Housing Committee, chaired by
  Shaun Bailey
• Planning and Regeneration Committee, chaired by Sakina Sheikh
• Police and Crime Committee, chaired by Caroline Russell
• Transport Committee, chaired by Keith Prince^[7]

The Police and Crime Committee was set up under the terms of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 in order to scrutinise the work of Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, which replaced the Metropolitan Police Authority.^[8]

Result maps

Note that these maps only show constituency results and not list results.

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