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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

Can I direct my question to Jules Pipe. It is not often we have had a Labour Mayor in front of us in these sessions! Jules, I wanted to ask you about fuel poverty and the welfare of reforms. I know London Councils have got concerns on that front. Could you please expand on the work London Councils have done on that front as it has an impact on people's abilities to pay the bills as well?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I was just wondering what the impact of the minimum wage has been in London in reducing relative poverty. Clearly, it affects those in employment, rather than those outside it, but I would like some idea of what the experts feel has been the impact.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I understand that there should be a London rate, and I think there has been work done on that, on the living wage. Coming back to Kate (Green)'s point that tax credits are more significant, one of the experiences I have come across is that the bureaucracy of targeted financial programmes can be such that it actually puts off a lot of people from sitting down and putting in the applications that they are perfectly entitled to make. I don't know if you have got any thoughts on that, and how that can be cleared up so that it's a...