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• Reference: 2021/1109
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Costs are higher in London and this is a challenge that Government itself faces in directly funding the capital. Be it capital city function funding for the police, the, in my view, vindictive cuts to TfL funding or the recent cuts to university funding, do you believe London is being targeted by the Government for cuts? Is this levelling down London, instead of levelling up the rest of the country, as they promised?

• Reference: 2021/0876
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

How does the size of LFB’s budget (£43.36 per head of London’s population per year) compared to Toronto’s (£105.43 per head per year) impact on the work it is able to undertake? What limitations does it put on the work of LFB?

• Reference: 2021/0933
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

During the lockdowns of this pandemic, has TfL given its tenants of units under the viaducts and stall keepers in Shepherd’s Bush reduced business rents?

• Reference: 2021/0934
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

During the lockdowns we have had during the pandemic, has TfL given its shop vendors in tube stations etc reduced business rents?

• Reference: 2021/0364
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

National supermarket chains have returned their business rate relief during the pandemic. Tesco for example returned over £500m. How much of this return business rate relief came from London supermarkets? Would it not be better to redistribute this to local independent businesses in London and particularly tenants of business rate payers who did not receive any business rate relief at all?

• Reference: 2020/4010
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Will the post-COVID-19 world be the death of the 24-hour economy in Central London?

• Reference: 2020/4011
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What measures can be taken to stop the death of the 24-hour economy in the post-COVID-19 world?

• Reference: 2020/4012
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In light of the importance of licensing in the 24-hour economy in London, will you be making representations to Westminster Council in their present consultation of their licensing policies after you told them to scrap plans to charge for pavement space?

• Reference: 2020/3547
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

Please update me on your work to explore incentives for businesses to provide investment in new homes which could benefit their workforce.

• Reference: 2020/3058
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Have you received representations from London’s culinary sector on the current state of their industry? What was their feedback, particularly with regards to Eat Out to Help Out? Have you raised this with the Government?