You have extended free travel to the lowest paid contractors, catering and security staff who work for Transport for London (TfL). Will you now extend that support for the cost of living to other low-paid staff who work for the GLA Group, including those at City Hall?

I was proud to be able to announce plans to extend free travel to the lowest paid employees of Transport for London’s suppliers – mainly in cleaning and security – last month.

My plans to extend free travel to these third-party employees will set right that disparity and bring more workers into line with the benefits available to direct employees of TfL.

Because TfL already provides free travel to their direct employees, the plans to give free travel to these workers would be an extension of an existing TfL practice.

The pay and conditions of other workers from across the GLA Group are of course not overseen by TfL, and no workers in other parts of the GLA Family are given free travel on the TfL network.

Free travel is a benefit reserved for TfL employees, and it is only right that those on the lowest pay who are contracted to do jobs on the TfL network are afforded the same support.

I am proud that the GLA Group is committed to paying all of its employees the London Living Wage, as well as being committed to the Good Work Standard. It’s right that we lead by example from City Hall, and thanks to this approach, across London we now have over 140,000 people working for over 2,700 real Living Wage Employers – four times more employers than when I became Mayor in 2016.

If any member of GLA staff is struggling with the increased cost of living, I would encourage them to get in touch with their managers. I know that corporate management teams are committed to doing everything they can to help our staff through this time.