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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My questions are to start off with to John O’Brien. I want to ask about support for businesses in London, with a particular focus on the restaurant industry. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, as of July last year there were nearly 16,000 restaurants in London employing around 325,000 people. Clearly, the sector has been hit very hard by COVID-19. Data showed in March, before the pandemic had fully hit, that 71% more food and accommodation businesses closed this March than they had in the previous March. John, I wonder if you could...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I am pleased to hear, Mr Mayor, that tackling knife crime is a priority for you and is one of the greatest policing challenges we face in the capital, and it has been referenced at the weekend, a 16-year-old boy stabbed to death in Notting Hill, the fourth teenager to have been killed on our streets this year. It is clear we need to start investing in prevention in order to help reduce knife crime on the streets. Something in the campaign you talked about is a six-point plan to tackle knife crime, but this morning...