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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: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Stephen Knight AM: Eddie [Sir Edward Lister], you have just said that you do not think that these changes will lead to an increase in the number of cars in outer London. Yet we are told that it will lead to a decrease in air quality and an increase in pollution. On one hand we are being told there will be an impact in terms of providing more car parking spaces leading to more cars, but you are just telling us that it will not. Which is the formal position of the GLA on this?