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  • Question and Answer Session: COVID-19 Recovery - The Next Steps for London (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 04 March 2021
    Caroline Russell AM: My questions are for the Deputy Mayor for Culture Justine Simons and are specifically about issues facing Londoners in creative industries, and the part the culture sector may play in the recovery process. At Tuesday’s Economy Committee meeting [2 March 2021], you talked about the scale of the impact the pandemic has had on London’s creative workers. You highlighted the risk that 150,000 people in the arts may lose their jobs and that £16 billion may be lost from an industry which, before COVID, was worth £58 billion a year to London’s economy. Can you tell me...
  • Question and Answer Session: COVID-19 Recovery - The Next Steps for London (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 04 March 2021
    Joanne McCartney AM: My first question is to Danny Thorpe, if I can. It is a general question. The pandemic has meant that many people have lost or are likely to lose their jobs in the forthcoming months. What retraining opportunities are you supporting for those people who are in that position?