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• Reference: 2023/4578
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Do you think there is a case for a GCSE in Healthcare covering a syllabus on healthy lives, health promotion and self-care?

• Reference: 2022/3372
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Hillingdon Council is closing its three early years centres in December. It claims that financial pressures caused by rising inflation have forced it to make efficiencies. While you do not have ultimate responsibility for childcare, given your work on early years, do you share my concern that the closure of the centres will place many families in financial hardship, as private providers are very expensive, and what support can you provide families facing high childcare costs?

• Reference: 2022/1551
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

There is significant variation in the number of children being offered their first preference for primary school. Although the average from all of London is 87.9%, this ranges widely from 94% to 66% by borough. Given your previous comments on the importance of providing a good school place for every child in London, would you please outline what it is that makes one borough more successful at awarding a first-choice primary school than another?

• Reference: 2022/1555
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Data that I obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request showed that the Government has only provided 141 London schools with air filters as part of their national scheme. Do you agree that this scheme should now be expanded and relaunched to ensure more London schools can tackle poor air quality and the transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses in the classroom?

• Reference: 2022/1146
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Can you provide details of how many Young Londoners Fund projects have been introduced and supported in Hillingdon and the total amount of grant funding allocated?

• Reference: 2022/1147
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Can you provide details of how many Young Londoners Fund projects have been introduced and supported in Ealing and the total amount of grant funding allocated?

• Reference: 2022/0693
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 February 2022

How many state schools in London have been offered youth mental health first aid training so far as part of Thrive LDN’s ‘Time to Thrive’ programme? Can this also be broken down by borough?

• Reference: 2022/0453
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

Now that the Department for Education’s rollout of CO2 to schools and education settings is largely complete, will you be lobbying the Government to go a step further and invest in suitable ventilation systems such as air filters for every London classroom?

• Reference: 2021/3475
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

As children across London have all returned to school, how concerned are you about the measures to reduce and slow the spread of COVID-19 within classrooms?

• Reference: 2021/2669
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 June 2021

Young carers’ responsibilities can often have consequences for the rest of their lives, in mental and physical health problems, lost earnings, and constrained choices. What are you doing to support their wellbeing and future?