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• Reference: 2023/3895
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

What is the total number of payrolled Londoners and how many Londoners are currently on the following payroll cycles: a) weekly, b) four-weekly, c) fortnightly, d) monthly? If you do not hold this data, can you obtain this information?

• Reference: 2022/5130
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

On the 50th anniversary of the release of the Pentonville 5, how are you defending the rights of trade unions in London?

• Reference: 2022/5132
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Would you agree that for Londoners, the cost of living crisis is also a low wage crisis, and what steps are you taking to address this?

• Reference: 2020/3044
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

What steps are you taking to improve air quality around the Royal Docks? Given there is significant residential development completed and planned in the area, constituents have raised with me issues of poor air quality, in part due to the presence of London City Airport, but also lots of industrial and logistics sites, construction sites and the future Silvertown Tunnel.

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Unmesh Desai AM: Good afternoon, panel. My question is to John Dickie and it is about the future of our high streets. We have already had some references in the earlier discussion to small businesses and to high streets. Jordan Cummins talked about small businesses gasping for breath. Georgia Gould talked about high streets being at the heart of recovery plans. I could not agree more. Mr Dickie, with London boroughs focused on helping localised shopping areas, what is the future for our local high streets? How can they be put at the heart of our recovery plans?

• Reference: 2019/20882
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

I welcome Tower Hamlets’ £200 000 air quality fund to support those with ideas for improving air quality in the borough. Please outline the ways in which your policies have supported the work of Tower Hamlets in improving air quality.

• Reference: 2019/17622
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Residents have complained to me that the emissions from idling canal boats adjacent to their homes are impacting upon their daily lives. I am aware you have encouraged boroughs to seek funding to address such issues through the air quality fund. Please could you advise how many boroughs have accessed funding for the installation of tow path charging points and what else you are doing to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2019/9206
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

Would you consider requiring TfL, the Metropolitan Police, and the Fire Service introduce new contract conditions, at the earliest opportunity, to require suppliers to disclose their manufacturers (in confidence) to enable independent NGOs to report on their working conditions?

• Reference: 2019/9207
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

Would you consider commissioning NGOs such as Labour Behind the Label/Clean Clothes Campaign and/or the Workers Rights Consortium, to report on working conditions in priority supply chains?

• Reference: 2019/9208
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

Could you commit to helping make London an effective Fairtrade City by a) Funding the development of ethical and fair-trade procurement policies for Greater London Authority bodies b) Providing support for Fairtrade London volunteers c) Ensuring catering facilities in City Hall use full ranges of ‘fairly traded’ products, objectively defined in contract conditions in accordance with Public Contract Regulations 2015?