Overview
- Sadiq Khan has set out a 4.1% rise in the GLA precept for 2026/27, lifting the Mayor’s Band D share from £490.38 to £510.51, pending approval.
- City Hall says the plan would support a record £1.22bn for policing within a £1.66bn mayoral spending budget.
- Officials say £15 of the increase would raise about £60m for the Met to target phone-theft gangs and strengthen neighbourhood policing, with £5 going to the London Fire Brigade.
- Most London boroughs are consulting on separate rises of 2.99% plus a 2% adult social care precept, the maximum allowed without a referendum.
- Evening Standard analysis indicates thousands more households would see average bills exceed £2,000 from April, with traditionally low-tax Wandsworth crossing £1,000.