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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?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to the panel. My main question is to Tunde [Olayinka] and Hannah [Boylan] and it is about modern slavery. Modern slavery was described by the Archbishop of Westminster, I think in 2016 or 2017, as “the dark underbelly of London’s society”. That still remains the case, although there is a growing and welcome recognition of the issue. In the context of modern slavery, how is it impacting today on refugee communities and what is the LSMP doing to address it? If you want to start off, Tunde [Olayinka], and then if I...

• 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?

• 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: 2019/20880
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

One of my local foodbanks is appealing for extra donations over the Christmas period. Please outline how you are encouraging Londoners to support each other during challenging periods like Christmas?

• Reference: 2019/19911
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Would you consider opening discussions on signing the GLA group up to the Conscious Advertising Network?

• Reference: 2019/14508
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Barking and Dagenham Council’s response to the fire at De Pass Gardens was commendable. 30 minutes after the initial reports, the Council’s emergency support team was on location, within 2 hours, a rescue-rest centre had been set up and by midnight, the Council had secured a bed in the Borough for every resident who needed it. With the help from Go-Ahead busses and the council’s own passenger transport services, residents were taken to where they needed to be. Will you be ensuring that the good practice shown by Barking and Dagenham Council on the day of the incident can be...

• 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?