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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: 2022/2523
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) reports problematic access to finance for ethnic minority-led businesses, an aversion to applying for funding and less likelihood of funding for those who apply. What can you do to support more robust data gathering and research on ethnic minority-led businesses as well as engagement between government, the business community and people from ethnic minority backgrounds?

• Reference: 2022/2081
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

A constituent is concerned that low income and some disabled people are disproportionately affected by the charge. Can you outline the steps taken to help Blue Badge holders? Would you consider a means tested exemption or grants for low-income families?

• 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: 2022/1135
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Do you think that the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper has too much of a focus on geographical inequalities, when it should also address structural and ethnic inequalities, for the benefit of London, as your Health Inequalities Strategy Implementation Plan does?

• 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?