London Assembly members will today claim that London Mayor Boris Johnson’s budget will lose every household in London the equivalent of £200.

The budget proposes:

Cutting funding to London by over half a billion pounds – equivalent of £200 per household

Cutting around 1,000 police and 890 police community support officers

Cutting jobs, skills and economic funding by 50%

Labour London Assembly members will today (at 10am) propose an alternative to Mayor Boris Johnson’s £13.6 billion budget, which seeks to lessen the cut in police numbers and reverses some of Boris Johnson’s fare rises.

The government grant to the Metropolitan Police Authority, London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, Greater London Authority, Transport for London and London Development Agency is being cut £618 million this year alone.

This cut comes on top of the cuts Mayor Boris Johnson has been making since he was elected in 2008, including:

* £1.7bn cut to London’s buses
* Cut the Thames gateway bridge (and with it £200m of funding)
* Cuts to police numbers
* Scrapped London’s affordable childcare programme, which helped thousands of parents into work
* Cut 450 tube ticket office jobs
* £28m from plans to make underground stations step-free
* Ended free entry for all school children to London Zoo and Wetlands Centre

The meeting today is the first part of a two-stage budget setting process. The Assembly will consider the Mayor’s final budget at its meeting on 23 February; the final budget may be amended by a two-thirds majority.

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