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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Certainly my perception is that the LSC has failed to encourage a breadth of skills training, and that's why we have this deficit in the building trade. Joiners, plumbers, they are all Europeans coming in and filling these jobs, and the indigenous population in young people leaving schools are not getting a chance because they do not have the skills and there is somehow no way that they can get the training. So, I am afraid, this is very true and I see this all the time in my constituencies. There is, actually, a wonderful life for people who have...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

What I wanted to ask about is the skills shortage that there is in London, and, Mr Ross, you touched on that at the very start of this meeting. There are whole areas of skills in the building trade which we do not have any longer, and so, therefore, people from Europe are walking into jobs here instead of the indigenous population. What I was going to suggest to the Mayor, now he is in charge of the Learning and Skills Board and stuff, and the new strategy, why do we not think of going back to the apprenticeship scheme...

• Reference: 2002/0345-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Tuberculosis and rickets in children are on the increase in certain parts of London. What have you been doing about it? .

• Reference: 2002/0339-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you not agree that housing targets should be based on a five year rolling review programme? Planning permissions given now should not be based on optimistic assumptions on new infrastructure in the future.

• Reference: 2002/0340-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you not agree that the Mayor's projections for growth are based on trends and fail to address the risk to Londoners' quality of life? He encourages high-density developments on already cramped built up areas which will alter the character of communities throughout the capital.

• Reference: 2002/0341-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

With the Mayor's insistence that 1 in 3 homes should be for social housing, do you agree that he is rejecting the aspirations of people of all income levels to own their own homes, and that middle income households will lose out in a London divided between people in higher priced homes and those who qualify for subsidised housing? .

• Reference: 2002/0342-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What advice are you giving the Mayor about the dangers inherent in a low take-up of childhood immunisation in certain parts of London? .

• Reference: 2002/0343-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What can the Mayor's office do with regard to the ageing population of GPs and the every increasing and worrying vacancy level in GP practices? .

• Reference: 2002/0344-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Why are you and the Mayor not working with London Councils to improve their Council Housing stock to eradicate damp and unhealthy living conditions? .

• Reference: 2002/0346-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is your office working with Primary Care Trusts on the LIFT programme? .