LESS WASTE AND SPIN, MORE POLICE OFFICERS
We have set out a fully-costed plan that could put nearly 1,400 more police officers on London’s streets by cutting Sadiq Khan’s waste and spin.
The Mayor rejected this plan choosing instead to spend millions extra on PR, culture, City Hall staff and the transport unions. This comes despite the Mayor’s claim that government policies mean he can’t afford to increase police numbers.
Our proposed changes would reduce some of the Mayor’s bloated budgets down to 2016/2017 levels – the year Khan took office. By doing so, the Mayor could free up nearly £83 million to invest in new police officers.
Among other proposals, the amendment said that the Mayor should:
The amendment also urged the Mayor to find savings within TfL by:
By adopting the GLA Conservatives’ plans, the Mayor would have also had enough extra cash to freeze the non-policing precept – a real terms tax cut for millions of Londoners
The Mayor rejected this plan choosing instead to spend millions extra on PR, culture, City Hall staff and the transport unions. This comes despite the Mayor’s claim that government policies mean he can’t afford to increase police numbers.
Our proposed changes would reduce some of the Mayor’s bloated budgets down to 2016/2017 levels – the year Khan took office. By doing so, the Mayor could free up nearly £83 million to invest in new police officers.
Among other proposals, the amendment said that the Mayor should:
- Gradually reduce the GLA staff budget by £19 million to £36 million - the 2016/17 level.
- Take £1.4 million and £2.2 million out of the external affairs and culture budgets respectively.
- Withdraw the £13 million that the Mayor spends on London and Partners – his PR company.
The amendment also urged the Mayor to find savings within TfL by:
- Scrapping the TfL nominee passes scheme, which enables TfL employees to hand out free travel cards to anyone living at their address, at a current cost to the taxpayer of £32.7 million per year.
- Reducing the amount TfL pays for employees to work on union duties. The cost of TfL facility time has doubled since the Mayor came to office in 2016.
- Abandoning the plan to ban junk food ads on the TfL network, which is set to starve TfL of £13 million each year.
By adopting the GLA Conservatives’ plans, the Mayor would have also had enough extra cash to freeze the non-policing precept – a real terms tax cut for millions of Londoners