State of London Debate 2022

State of London Debate is a free event for Londoners. It's an opportunity to put your questions to the Mayor of London and the Deputy Mayors about your city. 

The Mayor and Deputy Mayors will be on the panel to receive questions from Londoners. The meeting will be chaired by LBC's radio presenter James O'Brien, as part of Leading Britain's Conversation, LBC Talk Radio for the UK, broadcast exclusively on LBC News.

The Deputy Mayors work alongside The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to deliver a better and brighter future for everyone who calls this amazing, diverse city home.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I pledge to use this second term to do everything I can to build the bridges that bring us closer together and I will work tirelessly throughout the next three years with my team to deliver for all Londoners.”

The Deputy Mayors are:

• Joanne McCartney – Statutory Deputy Mayor / Deputy Mayor, Education and Childcare

• Jules Pipe CBE - Deputy Mayor, Planning, Regeneration and Skills

• Justine Simons OBE – Deputy Mayor, Culture and the Creative Industries

• Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard – Deputy Mayor, Communities and Social Justice

• Rajesh Agrawal – Deputy Mayor, Business

• Shirley Rodrigues – Deputy Mayor, Environment and Energy

• Sophie Linden – Deputy Mayor, Policing and Crime

• Fiona Twycross - Deputy Mayor, Fire and Resilience

• Seb Dance - Deputy Mayor, Transport and Deputy Chair, Transport for London

• Tom Copley - Deputy Mayor, Housing and Residential Development

There are 10 Deputy Mayors in total at GLA, alongside six special appointees; Amy Lamé - Night Czar, Dr Will Norman – Walking and Cycling Commissioner, Dr Tom Coffey OBE – Mayoral Health Advisor, Claire Waxman – Victims Commissioner, Theo Blackwell MBE – Chief Digital Officer and Lib Peck – Director of the Violence Reduction Unit.

You can find out more about the Mayors responsibilities.

There are 5 core topics up for discussion on the night; Transport, Policing and Safety, Air Quality and the Environment, Housing and London's Economic Recovery, interspersed with questions around the Coronavirus pandemic relevant to each topic area. We request to;

• Only ask one question 

• Stay on topic i.e. transport, environment 

• Keep questions concise and to the point 

If your question doesn’t get asked on the night, you can contact the Mayor after the event. We aim to respond within 20 working days.

We expect approximately 4-5 questions to be asked and answered in each of the 5 main topic sections (this fluctuates to more or less depending on time constraints).

The questions are submitted as follows;

• Live in-person questions will be selected on the night during the event by the Chair (registrations for in-person is sold out).

• Live chat forum questions: You can register for the event using the form above to be able to ask questions live, on the night. Viewers can also upvote, by 'liking' their favourite questions, with the most popular being shortlisted to the SOLD Chair, who will select from each topic, in the allocated time.

The Chair will direct each question to the Mayor and/or Deputy Mayors for a response. Neither the Mayor nor Deputy Mayors have access to the questions in advance.

Owing to online safeguarding issues you must be 16 or over to take part.

There will be 5 topics discussed on the night, which includes Transport, Policing and Safety, Air Quality and the Environment, Housing and London's Economic Recovery. There may be an opportunity if time permits, to ask other questions within the Mayor’s remit – for example culture and education.

Yes. There will be a BSL interpreter on-site and on-screen (PIP - picture in picture) with subtitles via a palantypist.

A full transcript of the event is available on request

Phone lines closed on Friday 24 June 2022 - 020 7084 2676.

To be able to ask questions you must register using the form above. You will receive a confirmation ticket if attending in-person, or receive a livestream link to the event if watching online. Both options allow you to participate by asking questions live on the night.

The livestream link will be live from 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start, also livestreamed on this page.

Yes you can.

If you do not want to ask a question live on the night through our dedicated live chat function, you can watch online without registering. The event will be live-streamed on this page.

As we want to get through as many questions as possible, from as many people as possible, could you;

• Ask only one question 

• Stay on topic i.e. transport, environment 

• Keep questions concise and to the point 

On the night: we want to ensure that Londoners get to ask their questions to the Mayor of London and Deputy Mayors, but we will not subject them, or viewers of the event, to abuse. Questions will therefore be moderated before they are posted to the live chat, and those that contain swearing, defamatory or illegal remarks or engage in ‘trolling’ will not be posted.

Questions that are off-topic, during a specific topic session, will also discarded. Unfortunately, due to the large number of questions we anticipate, we will not be able to go back to questions submitted in the wrong topic section.  

Depending on the scale of questions submitted on the night, we may not be able to post all questions into the live chat within the time constraints.

In-person guests - you may not be chosen to ask a question on the night due to the number of questions put forward in the alloted time. Tickets for in-person attendance is now sold out, therefore only online registration is open.

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