The Assembly acts as the eyes and ears of Londoners at City Hall. Members hold the Mayor to account by examining Mayoral strategies, decisions and actions to make sure they are in the public interest. They also have the power to reject strategies and make changes to budgets when two-thirds of Assembly Members agree.
There are many areas of London life that are affected by the work of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, such as policing, transport, housing, planning and the environment. You can find out more about these policy areas below. The Mayor plays a key role by putting together plans and policies, and running and funding projects.
But before finalising major strategies, the Mayor must consult with Londoners and their elected representatives on the London Assembly. The Mayor is responsible for developing and implementing a culture and sports strategy.
The Mayor also works to support and promote the arts and creative industries. It feeds into the consultations on these strategies by recommending improvements as well as monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of its delivery. The Mayor is responsible for producing a spatial development strategy — which has become known as the London Plan — and for keeping it under review.
The London Plan sets out an integrated economic, environmental, transport and social framework for the development of London. The Mayor must also be consulted on all planning applications that are of strategic importance to London.
Cinderella of the City. He really does get to go to the ball, if by ball we mean he gets to accompany the Prime Minister on all international trade visits. This means he has the same or greater status than a cabinet minister, except he's not representing the public, he's representing financial services. If you are wondering who elects the Mayor, it's liverymen. Liverymen are members of the old trade bodies of the City of London. Most of these started in the medieval days. So, if you were a wool trader, and you came to the city, you would join a guild with the other people doing that trade.
You got to call yourself something cool. You were no longer just a wool trader, but a member of 'The Worshipful Company of Woolmen'. All this stuff sounds like a lot of fun. Trouble is, the parade focuses on the companies like the Woolmen and ignores the ones where the history is less fluffy. Because the wealth of London didn't come from wool. It came from the Empire. While the worst abuses of imperialism, like slavery and the colonies, were far away - the money flowed back into the City of London.
When we think of some of the darkest periods of history, like slavery, we focus on the person holding the gun or the whip. But follow the money. Slavery needed a bank to channel the funds, firms to insure the boats, lawyers to represent the traders - the list goes on. He plays a key role in promoting UK-based financial services and related business services both nationally and internationally. In the LCC was replaced by the GLC in response to the continued growth in both the size and population of the capital; its first members were elected in The Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was determined to abolish the GLC and in succeeded in doing so.
When Labour was re-elected to power in one of its main manifesto pledges was to hold a referendum on the restoration of a democratically-elected strategic authority for London with a directly elected mayor and Assembly. A referendum was duly held in May and on a turnout of 34 per cent of Londoners, 72 per cent voted in favour of the proposal. Swipe to read more. Author: Politics. What is the Mayor of London? City of London london government London Transport.
0コメント