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• Reference: 2022/2077
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

What progress are you making to review the London Weighting paid to workers in London?

• Reference: 2022/2082
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

A man has been arrested on suspicion of illegal money lending and money laundering offences, following raids by the England Illegal Money Lending Team and the Metropolitan Police Service in Ealing. Ealing Council says that help is available for people with money or debt problems from the National Debt Line, Step Change, Debt Advice Network and Money Advice service. Can the Mayor help get the word out there about these sources of advice, so that people do not resort to loan sharks?

• Reference: 2022/0440
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

You supported Small Business Saturday on 4th December. Last year, an estimated £1.1 billion was spent with small businesses across the UK on Small Business Saturday. How important is Small Business Saturday in supporting London’s high streets and small businesses?

• Reference: 2021/4711
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Will you use your platform to encourage London Living Wage employers to also provide weekly Sick Pay to their staff at the rate of £10.85 p/h?

• Reference: 2021/3248
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

The Government has indicated they may want to make working from home “normal” going forward. We know that working from home has proved very beneficial for some individuals, and incredibly difficult for others. How will the Mayor work with businesses in London – potentially though the Good Work Standard - to help find a way forward which centres the mental health of workers, ensuring that working from home can remain an option for many people, whilst not creating a culture where businesses functionally force those who do not want to to work from home to cut down on costs?

• Reference: 2021/1880
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

How will you ensure that SMEs play a key part in our long-term recovery as a city?

• 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?