Full details of Sadiq Khan's new budget as mayor prioritises crime after Tory 'wrecking ball' to police

The Labour politician plans to summation his “precept” by 4 per cent, adding £18.98 to the benchmark set D complaint and meaning that a emblematic London household volition wage £490.38 to the Greater London Authority from April.

This is Sir Sadiq’s lowest summation successful his stock of council tax bills for 5 years.

Speaking astatine Mayor’s Question Time connected Thursday, Sir Sadiq said £14 of the £18.98 summation would spell straight to the Metropolitan police – generating £54m for assemblage policing and tacking convulsive crime.

He said helium had “no choice” but to summation his assembly taxation measure arsenic helium “urgently needed backing for the Metropolitan Police”. He added: “Keeping Londoners harmless is my apical precedence arsenic mayor.”

He said a decennary of Government cuts had reduced the Met’s backing by “£1.1bn successful existent terms” and said the politicians who criticised him were the aforesaid radical who had stayed soundless portion erstwhile governments had “taken a wrecking shot to constabulary backing and transgression prevention”.

Full details of the mayor’s spending plans for the 2025/26 fiscal twelvemonth person been published connected the City Hall website.

Key pledges see spending £147.5m from concern rates retaining escaped schoolhouse lunches successful each State superior schoolhouse successful London for different year.

The fund besides includes promises to “tackle crime, physique much affordable homes, trim thoroughfare homelessness, amended our transport web and support London arsenic a world-leader successful tackling aerial contamination and the clime crisis”.

Here are the cardinal details from the 2025/26 Greater London Authority budget.

Sir Sadiq said determination was “still a important shortfall successful the Met’s budget”.

The further wealth helium is uncovering for the Met volition assistance it to clasp 1,300 officers funded by City Hall. It means that £319.13 of each set D measure volition spell to the Met.

City Hall present funds a 4th of the Met’s budget, with the Government covering 75 per cent of its spending.

Previously the Government paid 80 per cent and City Hall 20 per cent.

London households volition wage an further £4.98 to assistance money the London Fire Brigade - the equivalent of 41p a period summation for an mean Band D household.

The London Fire Brigade is the UK’s largest occurrence and rescue service. The further backing is to alteration it to amended show and amended its culture.

Continuing to supply escaped schoolhouse lunches to each superior schoolhouse pupils successful London volition outgo £147.5m. This volition support the scheme, which helps 287,000 children, going for a 3rd year. The currency volition beryllium taken from concern rates.

City Hall said: “Delivering escaped schoolhouse meals has been 1 of Sadiq’s proudest moments arsenic politician and helium has vowed to proceed the strategy for arsenic agelong arsenic helium is successful office.”

The fund has committed £1.5bn to subsidise the gathering of affordable homes successful 2025-26, oregon to assistance councils to bargain backmost homes presently successful the backstage sector. These homes are past rented to radical connected assembly waiting lists.

The fund includes “beginning work” connected the Superloop 2 and Bakerloop explicit autobus services, expanding the fig of zero-emission buses connected London’s roads, expanding the fig of schoolhouse streets, expanding the rhythm web and making much stations step-free.

But the cardinal absorption volition beryllium connected securing a multi-year backing woody for TfL successful the Government’s spending review, which is expected successful June.

The projected DLR hold to Thamesmead volition advancement towards the submission of a Transport and Works Act Order, “while seeking acceleration of the programme overall”.

The West London Orbital obstruction nexus and the Bakerloo Line hold “will advancement done the adjacent signifier of feasibility”. TfL volition besides effort to bring the Great Northern franchise, presently tally by GoVia Thameslink, nether the power of TfL.