LONDON ASSEMBLY

The 'London Assembly' is an 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 majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget. The Assembly was established in 2000 and is headquartered at City Hall on the south side of the River Thames close to Tower Bridge.
The Assembly is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners, publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the Mayor.
Although the Assembly's powers are fairly limited, the body is increasingly seen as a stepping stone to Parliament. In the time since its creation in 2000, six Assembly members have been elected to the House of Commons: David Lammy, Meg Hillier and Diana Johnson for Labour; Andrew Pelling and Bob Neill for the Conservatives; and Lynne Featherstone for the Liberal Democrats. In addition, Angie Bray and Bob Blackman have been selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidates for the marginal seats of Ealing Acton and Harrow East at the next general election.

Contents

Makeup

Current state of the parties

Constituency Members

London-wide Members

See also

External links

Makeup

The London Assembly comprises 25 members elected using the Additional Member System. Elections take place every four years - at the same time as for the Mayor. There are 14 constituencies each electing one member, with a further 11 members elected from a party list to make the total members from each party proportional to the votes cast for that party across the whole of London. Parties must win at least 5% of the party list vote in order to win any seats. Members of the Assembly have the letters 'AM' after their names.

Current state of the parties

	Party	Seats		Current Assembly
		2000	2004
	Conservative	''9''	'9'
	Labour	''9''	'7'
	Liberal Democrat	''4''	'5'
	Green	''3''	'2'
	One London¹	''0''	'2'

¹Both One London members were elected on the United Kingdom Independence Party list but defected in February 2005 to the newly-formed Veritas party; from September 2005 they formed their own party.

Constituency Members

London Assembly constituencies
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{| class="wikitable"
ConstituencyMemberParty
Barnet and CamdenBrian ColemanConservative
Bexley and BromleyBob NeillConservative
Brent and HarrowRobert BlackmanConservative
City and EastJohn BiggsLabour
Croydon and SuttonAndrew PellingConservative
Ealing and HillingdonRichard BarnesConservative
Enfield and HaringeyJoanne McCartneyLabour
Greenwich and LewishamLen DuvallLabour
Havering and RedbridgeRoger EvansConservative
Lambeth and SouthwarkValerie ShawcrossLabour
Merton and WandsworthElizabeth HowlettConservative
North EastJennette ArnoldLabour
South WestTony ArbourConservative
West CentralAngie BrayConservative

London-wide Members

★ Liberal Democrat - Lord Tope, Baroness Hamwee, Michael Tuffrey, Dee Doocey, Geoff Pope

★ Labour - Nicky Gavron, Murad Qureshi

★ Green - Jenny Jones, Darren Johnson

★ One London (originally UKIP, later Veritas) - Damian Hockney, Peter Hulme-Cross

See also

★ London Assembly election, 2000

★ London Assembly election, 2004

★ Toby Harris

External links

★ London Assembly

★ MayorWatch Guide to the London Assembly