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• Reference: 2023/4818
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In your answer to my question 2019/20119, you noted you were considering a memorial to the 12,000 Londoners who lost their lives in the Great Smog of 1952, and identified the 70th anniversary in 2022 as the best way to do so. Could you provide me with an update on your plans for any such memorial?

• Reference: 2023/3566
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2021/3532 about the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, in which you said: “Given the significant opposition that exists and the local disruption this event causes I have written to both ExCel and the event organiser strongly urging them not to hold this event at ExCel in the future.” Could you tell me what response you received from both ExCel and the event organiser, and what further representations have you made to both ExCel and the organiser about not holding this event in London?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. My question is for Enver Solomon. I met recently with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in preparation for this plenary. They told me about the experience of a woman who claimed asylum in the UK, was 33 weeks pregnant and living in asylum accommodation near Gatwick. She was being given food that was unsuitable during pregnancy. She complained about the food to the hotel and medical practitioners from her hospital also spoke to hotel managers saying that the food was unsuitable for her and her baby, but no...

• Reference: 2023/1234
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In January 2022, London’s Child Obesity Taskforce transitioned into the Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight. How has the group’s approach changed to consider improving the health of: a) underweight children, and b) young people living with eating disorders, and to what extent does it consider the importance of mental health to children’s healthy weight?

• Reference: 2023/1235
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In the context of your plans to fund free school meals for all primary school children, and given the detrimental health and environmental impacts of meat, dairy and processed food consumption, what steps are you taking to encourage local authorities to prioritise the provision of good quality vegetables in school meals?

• Reference: 2022/1332
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

How many Safer Schools Officers are assigned to each secondary school in London? Could you provide details in table format with a breakdown of the total number of secondary schools and the total number of officers in each borough.

• Reference: 2022/1334
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

How many youth workers are based in schools across London, and do you have any plans to increase this number?

• Reference: 2022/0507
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 24 February 2022

At the People’s Question Time (PQT) meeting on 3 February 2022, you said that 86,000 young people had been helped by the Young Londoners Fund (YLF). Could you tell me: a) how much money from the YLF has been spent in each borough since the fund’s creation, and b) how many young people were helped in each borough?

• Reference: 2021/4827
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Your office and your Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience did excellent work through the Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) to unite and coordinate all levels of government across London tackling coronavirus. What work is the SCG doing to prepare London for variants of concern, and to be resilient against coronavirus this winter?

• Reference: 2021/3562
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Redbridge MPS posted on Twitter on 19 July 2021 about a knife crime intervention at a school, with a photograph showing a display box of dangerous knives. Do you believe that displaying knifes to children and posting frightening images on social media deters young people from knife carrying?