Mayor of London

The Mayor of London sets the budget and is responsible for making London a better place for everyone who visits, lives, or works in the city.

The Mayor is elected every four years. The current Mayor is Boris Johnson, first elected in 2008 and re-elected on 3rd May 2012.

Changing London for the better

The Mayor wants London to be the ‘best big city in the world’.

His work includes making it easier for people to move in and around the city, improving London’s environment, helping the capital’s businesses to thrive, providing Londoners with more affordable housing and giving young people in London more opportunities.

Setting the vision for London

The Mayor sets an overall vision for London and  has a duty to create plans and policies for the capital covering:

Other priorities for the Mayor include higher education, foreign Investment and attracting events and conferences to London.

Setting budgets to realise his vision

The Mayor’s £17bn annual budget supports investment in public transport, fire services and policing as well as the work of City Hall.

It is financed from a mixture of central government grants, transport fares and other charges, business rates and council tax.

Working in partnership to improve the capital

In line with his commitment to do all he can to improve London, the Mayor invests in and works with many different people and organisations to achieve this aim.

Championing London and Londoners

The Mayor is also the elected voice of the capital and champions London and Londoners at home and abroad.

The current Mayor is Boris Johnson, re-elected on 3 May 2012.

source-https://www.london.gov.uk

Culture and London 2012

The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games provided a unique opportunity to showcase London's unrivaled arts and culture to the world.The Mayor of London presented and supported the most exciting, ambitious cultural festival the city has ever seen.

Alongside the London 2012 Festival, we signalled to the world that London is a cultural powerhouse with over 5,000 free cultural events stretching across all parts of London (all 33 boroughs) and across all genres – Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Theatre and Fashion for both Londoners and visitors alike to enjoy including:

• 31% of Londoners said that they attended more cultural events in summer 2012 than summer 2011.

• Over 80,000 people bounced on Jeremy Deller’s inflatable Stonehenge -Sacrilege

• Elizabeth Streb's daredevil dancers attracted international media value of over £1 million.

• Over 400 Showtime performers reached over half a million Londoners

• Big Dance is the world’s largest and most influential dance initiative reaching 1.8 million people in the capital

• Over 20,000 Londoners and visitors got 'Shakespeared' by Olivier Award winning actor, Mark Rylance's troupe

• 500 x 11 – 25 year olds performing 2,000 hours of live music around London in the Mayor's annual busking competition  - Gigs

• Around 30,000 experienced a Secrets event including ex-Monty Python Terry Jones operatic spectacle The Owl and the Pussycat along London’s canals

• Aerial performances and  1.5 tons of feathers were released during a day of circus at Piccadilly Circus.

Source-https://www.london.gov.uk