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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?

• 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: 2019/9206
• 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?

• Reference: 2016/0088
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

The Government has announced it will parcel large publicly owned sites into smaller plots, to 'directly commission small and up-and-coming companies to build thousands of new homes', including at Old Oak Common. Following this, will you review your approach through the London Land Commission to provide similar opportunities for smaller builders on other publicly owned land across London?

• Reference: 2016/0092
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

The TfL-commissioned report 'Impact of the Night Tube on London's Night-Time Economy' draws conclusions based on data from a Bus Survey Analytical Report completed eight years ago, and relies on data on taxi and private hire use that pre-dates recent significant changes in that sector. Given that introducing the night tube has proven harder than you expected, shouldn't you commission new research using current data so that any assertions made about the importance of all night running is supported by evidence?

• Reference: 2014/2694
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Will you look at how small businesses in London can directly benefit from events like the Tour de France, rather than all the upsides going to the big corporate sponsors, especially when TfL are putting such large sums into supporting such events?