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  • Lift The Ban

    • Reference: 2024/0892
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    Can you confirm, following your positive response to a motion passed by the Assembly on 7 September 2023 regarding the Lift The Ban Coalition, that you will commit all members of the GLA family (MOPAC, LFC, TfL, LLDC, OPDC) to join the coalition?

  • Two Child Benefit Cap Motion (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0890
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    When will you provide a response to the motion passed by the Assembly on 7 December 2023 on the Two Child Benefit Cap?

  • Two Child Benefit Cap Motion (2)

    • Reference: 2024/0891
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    As per our motion passed on 7 December 2023, will you commit to writing alongside the Chair of the London Assembly, to the UK Government calling for the Two Child Benefit cap to be removed?

  • Support Pubs (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0900
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    What measures are you taking to encourage potential landlords to open smaller pubs across the capital, as the trend towards larger pubs over the last 20 years looks set to continue?

  • Support Pubs (2)

    • Reference: 2024/0901
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    The decrease in pub numbers over the last twenty years is most pronounced in outer London boroughs. What specific funding and support is available for potential and current landlords to set up and run pubs in outer London?

  • Night Czar (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0908
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    Does the Night Czar position provide value for taxpayer’s money? How is this assessed?

  • LGBTQ+ Venues

    • Reference: 2024/0919
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 15 March 2024
    The owner of Heaven nightclub, one of London’s most prominent LGBTQ+ venues, has warned that the nightclub is at risk as it battles skyrocketing rents. Over the last year, several other LGBTQ+ venues and safe spaces have also raised concerns they are being forced to consider shutting down by extortionate rent rises. This could mean the loss of important spaces where members of the LGBTQ+ community feel safe. What efforts have you made to ensure the future of London’s LGBTQ+ venues and how have you lobbied the Government on this issue?

  • EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0507
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    As the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is set to end later this year, what specific financial support or subsidies are you prepared to offer to local businesses, particularly small businesses, that might incur part of the projected £200 million increase in import costs due to new Brexit controls?

  • Child Poverty

    • Reference: 2024/0326
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2024
    New data from the End Child Poverty Coalition shows that 11% of children living in London, are living in families impacted by the two-child limit to benefit payments. This new data also shows that there is a correlation between areas which have the highest levels of child poverty, and the highest numbers of children impacted. Will you commit to working with partners across the capital to better understand the lived experience of families impacted by this policy, and use the findings to further call on politicians at Westminster to scrap this policy?

  • Govt. Migration Policy (1)

    • Reference: 2023/4679
    • Question by: Hina Bokhari
    • Meeting date: 21 December 2023
    Can you quantify the expected increase in staff shortages in London’s key sectors like construction and hospitality due to the Government’s raised salary threshold for overseas workers?