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• Reference: 2021/3532
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

The DSEI arms fair returns to the ExCel London this month. Past events have seen weapons sold to regimes that commit human rights abuses. Do you agree that it is wrong for London to host an international arms fair?

• Reference: 2021/1446
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Since you and the Night Czar launched the Women’s Night Safety charter in 2017, how have you measured its success and impact in the community, beyond voluntary signups from businesses in the night time economy?

• Reference: 2021/0981
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In your answer to my questions 2021/0023 and 2021/0484 you stated that the London Recovery board is working to support Londoners in debt and that you were funding the Debt Free London Partnership’s free debt advice helpline to be delivered 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout January, February and March. Could you tell me if you plan to fund the free debt advice helpline beyond March?

• Reference: 2021/0982
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

When will you publish the research commissioned from Centre for London into support for freelancers during the crisis?

• Reference: 2021/0983
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In your answer to my question 2021/0024 you told me that the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) hosted a roundtable discussion on 28 January 2021 which was to look at the needs of disabled entrepreneurs, as well as women and BAME entrepreneurs. Could you tell me the recommendations that came out of this roundtable, and also specifically how the roundtable identified ways for the fund to better benefit disabled SME founders?

• Reference: 2021/0984
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

The Centre for London reports that there are half as many apprenticeship starts in London per 1,000 jobs, compared with the rest of the UK. What plans do you have to improve this situation?

• Reference: 2021/0985
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

With regard to the £9 million fund you launched in May 2020 to help skills providers switch to remote training, could you tell me: a) how many people have accessed these courses, and b) how many have found new employment since then or set up their own business?

• Reference: 2021/1000
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Now that Uber drivers have had their rights as workers affirmed by the Supreme Court, will you take action to require all companies licensed or contracted with by Greater London Authority bodies to recognise the rights of their workers in line with this ruling?

• Reference: 2021/0484
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

I have been hearing from organisations including Fair Finance, Toynbee Hall and Impact on Urban Health about the impact that the coronavirus crisis is having on the financial health of Londoners. One of the worst effects is debt. What work is the London Recovery Board doing to support Londoners who have been forced into debt over the last year?

• Reference: 2021/0486
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In your interim report, published in January 2021, on the economic future of the Central Activities Zone (CAZ), it states that: “The impact of COVID-19 is severe and far reaching, with a loss of almost a quarter of a million workplace jobs in London between March and the end of 2020, the highest fall in the UK.” In a real-world example of this, a CWU representative has written to tell me that as many as 4,000 BT desk-based jobs in London and the south east of England are being lost under BT’s plans to close sites and move work abroad...