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  • Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight

    • Reference: 2023/1234
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
    In January 2022, London’s Child Obesity Taskforce transitioned into the Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight. How has the group’s approach changed to consider improving the health of: a) underweight children, and b) young people living with eating disorders, and to what extent does it consider the importance of mental health to children’s healthy weight?

  • Healthy free school meals

    • Reference: 2023/1235
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 23 March 2023
    In the context of your plans to fund free school meals for all primary school children, and given the detrimental health and environmental impacts of meat, dairy and processed food consumption, what steps are you taking to encourage local authorities to prioritise the provision of good quality vegetables in school meals?

  • Safer Schools Officers

    • Reference: 2022/1332
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 19 May 2022
    How many Safer Schools Officers are assigned to each secondary school in London? Could you provide details in table format with a breakdown of the total number of secondary schools and the total number of officers in each borough.

  • Youth workers in schools

    • Reference: 2022/1334
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 19 May 2022
    How many youth workers are based in schools across London, and do you have any plans to increase this number?

  • Number of young people helped by the Young Londoners Fund

    • Reference: 2022/0507
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
    At the People’s Question Time (PQT) meeting on 3 February 2022, you said that 86,000 young people had been helped by the Young Londoners Fund (YLF). Could you tell me: a) how much money from the YLF has been spent in each borough since the fund’s creation, and b) how many young people were helped in each borough?

  • Access to gyms and swimming pools

    • Reference: 2021/4419
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    A constituent has raised with me an issue with changes brought in at their local borough gym, which restrict swimming slots to 45 minutes, without an equivalent reduction in price. Given the need to keep Londoners healthy after multiple lockdowns, do you support exercise facilities safely removing these expensive restrictions?

  • Knife crime interventions

    • Reference: 2021/3562
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 09 September 2021
    Redbridge MPS posted on Twitter on 19 July 2021 about a knife crime intervention at a school, with a photograph showing a display box of dangerous knives. Do you believe that displaying knifes to children and posting frightening images on social media deters young people from knife carrying?

  • Supporting London’s musicians through recovery and post-Brexit (1)

    • Reference: 2021/0980
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    At the London Assembly Plenary on Thursday 4 March 2021, we heard from Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, Justine Simons OBE, that so far, you have provided £3.9 million to support the creative sector which has helped 13,000 individuals, artists and businesses. This sector was worth £58 billion to London’s economy prior to the pandemic and provides more than 600,000 jobs, which is 11.9 per cent of all jobs in the capital, compared to 4.9 per cent in the rest of the UK. What further support are you providing to retain skilled creative workers in the city...

  • Supporting London’s musicians through recovery and post-Brexit (2)

    • Reference: 2021/1003
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    In your answer to my question 2021/0483 you stated that on 3 February 2021 you wrote to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Oliver Dowden MP, about the UK Government’s failure to come to a deal with the EU and the impact on the creative and cultural sectors. Could you publish this letter and share any response you receive from the Secretary of State with me?

  • Supporting London’s musicians post-Brexit

    • Reference: 2021/0483
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
    Recently The Independent reported that the Government has misled the UK music industry over the issue of visa-free travel for musicians to/from the EU. It was in fact the UK Government who rejected the EU offer of reciprocal visa free travel for touring musicians. UK Music in their 2020 report, Music by Numbers, found that the total export revenue of the music industry was £2.9 billion in 2019. Do you agree with me that musicians being able to tour the EU is vital for our economy and vital for cultural exchange, and will you call on the Government to get...