Len Duvall

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| name = Len Duvall

| honorific-suffix = OBE AM

| image = Len Duvall am, Sept 24.jpg

| caption = Duvall in 2024

| office = Deputy Chair of the London Assembly

| term_start = 10 May 2024

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| predecessor = Onkar Sahota

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| office1 = Leader of the Labour Group in the London Assembly

| leader1 = Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Ed Miliband
Jeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer

| term_start1 = 2004{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805204516/http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp|title=London Assembly Member Len Duvall|archive-date=5 August 2004|access-date=7 October 2019|website=london.gov.uk|url-status=dead}}

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| predecessor1 = Toby Harris

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| office2 = Chair of the London Labour Party

| term_start2 = 2002

| term_end2 = 2019

| predecessor2 = Chris Robbins

| successor2 = Jim Kelly

| office3 = Member of the London Assembly
for Greenwich and Lewisham

| assembly3 = London

| term_start3 = 4 May 2000

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| majority3 = 43,159 (25.4%)

| predecessor3 = Office Created

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|9|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Woolwich, London, England

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| nationality = British

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| party = Labour Co-op

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| profession = Politician

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Leonard Lloyd Duvall OBE (born 26 September 1961){{Cite web |title=Duvall, Leonard, (born 26 Sept. 1961), Member (Lab) Greenwich and Lewisham, since 2000, and Leader, Labour Group, since 2004, London Assembly, Greater London Authority |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-14433 |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |year=2007 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u14433|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been deputy chair of the London Assembly since May 2024.

Additionally, Duvall has been serving as the Leader of the Labour Group in the London Assembly since 2004, and has been the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Greenwich and Lewisham since 2000. Duvall is a former chair of both the Metropolitan Police Authority{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp |title=London Assembly Biography of Len Duvall |access-date=7 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010130317/http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp |archivedate=October 10, 2008 }} and the London Labour Party Regional Board.{{cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2019/03/labour-left-sweeps-the-london-regional-board/|title=Labour left sweeps the London regional board | LabourList|website=Labourlist.org|date=3 March 2019 |access-date=2019-08-19}}

Early life and career

Duvall was born and raised in Woolwich.{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenwich.co.uk/magazine/len-duvall-interview/|title=Interview with Len Duvall, GLA Member for Greenwich & Lewisham|website=Greenwich.co.uk|date=2 February 2009}} Duvall was a councillor for the London Borough of Greenwich from 1990 until 2001, during which time he was deputy leader of the council, until 1992, when he became leader, a position he held until his election to the London Assembly.{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll/biog.jsp |title=London Assembly Biography of Len Duvall |access-date=1 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704072028/http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll/biog.jsp |archivedate=July 4, 2008 }} He was one of the founders of the New Local Government Network, chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership, chair of the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government, vice-chair of the Local Government Information Unit, a non–executive Director of Millennium Experience Ltd, deputy chair of the Association of London Government, a member of the Council of Europe and Chamber of the Regions, chair of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (1998–2005), and in 1998 he was appointed an OBE for "services to Local Government in London and to the Thames Gateway Partnership".{{London Gazette|supp=y|issue=55155|date=15 June 1998|page=11}}

London Assembly

He was first elected as an AM in 2000, and retained his Greenwich and Lewisham seat in the 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2021, 2024 elections.{{Cite web|url=http://www.glalabour.com/index.php?id=160|title = AllNetArticles - Submit Your High Quality Articles for Maximum Exposure|website=Glalabour.com| date=20 May 2022 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2012|title=Results 2012|website=Londonelects.org.uk|access-date=8 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2016|title=Results 2016|website=Londonelects.org.uk|access-date=8 May 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2021|title = Results 2021 |website=Londonelects.org.uk}} Duval is the only remaining London Assembly member to have served continuously since the London Assembly was established in May 2000. He is leader of the Labour Group on the London Assembly, chair of both the EU Exit Working Group{{cite web|url=https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/london-assembly/london-assembly-committees/eu-exit-working-group#acc-i-58558|title=EU Exit Working Group | London City Hall|website=London.gov.uk|access-date=2019-08-19}} and the GLA Oversight Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Budget and Performance Committee and the Budget and Monitoring Sub-Committee.{{cite web|url=https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/membership_grid_2019-20.pdf|title=London Assembly – Membership of Committees/Bodies and Terms of Reference 2019/20 | London Assembly|website=London.gov.uk|access-date=2019-08-14|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814185249/https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/membership_grid_2019-20.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Outside the London Assembly, he is a non-executive director of Tilfen Land, a property development company and a board member of the Royal Artillery Museums Trust,{{Cite web |url=http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp |title=London Assembly Member Len Duvall |access-date=14 February 2004 |archive-date=5 August 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805204516/http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/duvalll.jsp |url-status=dead }} his father and grandfather having served as gunners in the Royal Artillery.

Daniel Morgan Inquiry

In 2021 Duvall was praised by the Panel investigating the unsolved 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan for giving effective direction while chair of the Metropolitan Police authority.[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/993985/_HC_11-III__-_The_Report_of_the_Daniel_Morgan_Independent_Panel__Volume_3_.pdf The Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel] June 2021. Vol. 3