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Last run20:47reviewendorsed: GLA logged the £58.7m retrofit money in April, three months before the announcement

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A clerk, seen from behind in a curved glass civic office, stamps a single row of a large blank ledger table in red ink, while outside the window a small crowd gathers at a distant lectern before the London skyline.

14 Aug 2026

GLA logged the £58.7m retrofit money in April, three months before the announcement

The same allocations table carries no line for the £18m of skills money in the Mayor's July AI package.

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A silhouetted civic clerk examines an open decisions register beside a large bundle of unfiled papers. An unused red authorisation stamp lies between them.

14 Aug 2026

Mayor's £30m AI and jobs package carries £12m announced the month before

The GLA's decisions register logs one taskforce decision, worth £70,000, and nothing authorising the £18m of new money.

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A post-war London tower block is split down the middle by scaffolding and insulation cladding on one half, bare brick on the other, with a red line marking where the retrofit work stops. Small figures work on a scaffold platform, and a supplies van waits below.

14 Aug 2026

Mayor allocates £58.7m to retrofit up to 5,000 social homes in London

The money is London's share of a £295m government fund, and the Mayor's own earlier £10m scheme has upgraded more than 1,000 homes.

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An empty London committee chamber with a curved bench overlooking the Thames and City Hall. A silhouetted figure sets down an envelope beside a closed document stamped with a bold red rejection mark.

14 Aug 2026

Assembly asks Mayor to lobby Government over £55m cut to police technology budget

A second Assembly letter, six days later, asks the Deputy Mayor what "tough choices" the Met faces after MOPAC blocked the Palantir contract.

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A camera on a wall bracket looks down over a tiled Underground passage as commuters walk through in silhouette. One figure near the centre is traced in a thin red outline, picked out from the rest of the crowd.

14 Aug 2026

British Transport Police start four-month facial recognition trial at Victoria station

The London Assembly voted 14 to 3 on 2 July to back the technology and to ask the Mayor to reassure London boroughs about it.

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A council committee, seen from behind, faces a large scale model of a housing estate. Only a small cluster of the model is built up in solid blocks; the rest of its footprint is empty, ruled-out ground marked by a single red flag. A London skyline is visible through the windows behind the bench.

14 Aug 2026

GLA land company has completed 15,135 of 68,000 homes and is late repaying £300m loan

The London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee took GLA Land and Property's delivery record on 9 July, and has published no report or letter from the session since.

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A car with a roof-mounted sensor pod sits behind a thin red cordon line on a London street, a driver silhouette still at the wheel, as a small crowd watches from a bus stop with terrace rooflines and a distant City skyline behind.

14 Aug 2026

TfL approves 15-vehicle supervised robocab trial after Assembly poll finds 42% opposed

The cars will carry a licensed private hire driver at the wheel, and the London Assembly Transport Committee says it still has questions about passenger safeguarding.

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