The Greater London Authority (GLA),colloquially known by the metonym City Hall,is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London,England. It consists of two political branches:an executive Mayor and the 25-member London Assembly,which serves as a means of checks and balances on the Mayor. Since May 2016,both branches have been under the control of the London Labour Party. The authority was established in 2000,following a local referendum,and derives most of its powers from the Greater London Authority Act 1999 and the Greater London Authority Act 2007.
The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body,part of the Greater London Authority,that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power,with a two-thirds supermajority,to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners,publish its findings and recommendations,and make proposals to the Mayor.
Felicia Nicolette Gavron was a British politician who was deputy mayor of London under Ken Livingstone from 2000 to 2003 and 2004 to 2008. She was a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2021 and was the former Labour candidate for the 2004 London mayoral election.
Jennifer Helen Jones,Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb,is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales,she was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.
Jennette Arnold,OBE is a Labour Co-op politician who served as chair of the London Assembly for five terms. From 2004 to 2021,Arnold represented the North East constituency,comprising the London Boroughs of Hackney,Islington and Waltham Forest.
Joanne McCartney is a British barrister and Labour and Co-operative Party politician. Since 2004,she has served as a member of the London Assembly,representing Enfield &Haringey. Following the election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London in 2016,McCartney has served as Statutory Deputy Mayor of London.
Murad Qureshi is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician,and a former Member of the London Assembly.
Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2022. Full council meetings are generally held at Westminster Council House,also known as Marylebone Town Hall,and the council has its main offices at Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street.
Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson,Baroness Randerson is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is a former junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was a functional body of the Greater London Authority (GLA) from 2000 to 2018. It was established with the Greater London Authority by the Greater London Authority Act 1999. It replaced the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority,on 3 July 2000. Its principal purpose was to be the strategic governance of the London Fire Brigade. The members of LFEPA were appointed annually by the Mayor of London and were nominated from the London Assembly and the London borough councils. There were two direct mayoral appointments to the authority from 2008,following the Greater London Authority Act 2007. It was abolished in April 2018 and replaced with the London Fire Commissioner,following the Policing and Crime Act 2017.
Caroline Valerie Pidgeon,Baroness Pidgeon,,is a British politician. She served as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly from 2010 to 2024,and was a member of the London Assembly (AM) from 2008 to 2024. Pidgeon was a councillor on Southwark London Borough Council from 1998 to 2010 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services since July 2024. A member of the Labour party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South since 2024. In addition,she was also the MP for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018,and served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021.
Tom Phillip Copley is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician,serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development. He served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick,Baroness Borwick,is a British politician.
Caroline Russell is a British politician and activist serving as Leader of the Green Party in the London Assembly since October 2018,and a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since May 2016.
Leonie Alison Cooper is a British Labour &Co-operative Party politician. Since May 2016 she has represented Merton and Wandsworth on the London Assembly. She has served as a Councillor on the Wandsworth London Borough Council since 2006,representing Latchmere 2006–10 and Furzedown ward from 2010 onwards.
Susan Mary Hall is a British politician who has served as a Member of the London Assembly since 2017 and a councillor on Harrow London Borough Council since 2006. She was leader of the London Conservatives on the London Assembly from December 2019 until May 2023. Hall was the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election,finishing in second place behind incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan.
Judith Vivienne Blake,Baroness Blake of Leeds is a British Labour politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords since 2021. She serves as a Baroness-in-Waiting in the House of Lords.
Sakina Zahra Sheikh is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide from 2021 to 2024. She also represents Perry Vale on Lewisham Council.
Eleanor Anna "Elly" Baker is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since 2021. She worked as an organiser for the National Education Union.
