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• Reference: 2015/4336
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

While the announcement that the national base rate for 16-19 funding will be protected in cash terms is welcome, what are you doing to ensure that unprotected additional funding for disadvantaged students is maintained so that young Londoners can still get the extra help they need to access training?

• Reference: 2015/4337
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

What are you doing to ensure that the voice of small London technology companies will continue to be heard when it comes to national decisions on apprenticeships following the greater influence that larger businesses are likely to expect after the introduction of the apprenticeships levy?

• Reference: 2015/4338
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

What efforts are you intending to make to secure positions for London's leading tech and creative firms on the new employer-led bodies due to set apprenticeship standards, as announced within the spending review, given the vital need for new talent within these growth industries in the London economy?

• Reference: 2015/3949
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Your response to MQ 2015/3497 does not provide me with the information that I require. Can you provide, or obtain if you do not already have this, a spreadsheet containing a breakdown of apprenticeships in London by level, which is then further broken down into age, gender, ethnicity and disability?

• Reference: 2015/3953
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Can you provide me with an update of the work that has been carried out on the London Ambitions Careers Offer to provide young people with good quality careers advice, since the launch in June 2015? Where changes were introduced in schools from September 2015?

• Reference: 2015/3954
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Your response to MQ 3498 highlights that double the number of males are starting apprenticeships with TfL compared to females since 2012, of particular concern is this year where only 25 females have started an apprenticeship with TfL compared to 131 males. What action are you taking to ensure there is an equal gender balance with apprenticeships in TfL?

• Reference: 2015/3959
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

What action did you take to promote Work Experience Week in London, which took place between 12th-16th October?

• Reference: 2015/3800
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Further to Question No: 2015/3534 'Are you aware of the concerns of Torriano Primary school over pedestrian safety at the junction for which TfL is responsible at Camden Road (A503) with Camden Park Road/Torriano Avenue (A5200); and what are you going to do about them ?' Your response being: 'TfL was made aware of the pedestrian safety concerns raised by Torriano Primary School in September 2015. Possible alterations to the junction are being considered and I understand a meeting is being arranged with Torriano Primary school to discuss their concerns in detail.' Have those discussions now taken place, and if...

• Reference: 2015/3659
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Will you commit to ensuring that the LEP takes due notice of the Ofsted report regarding the need to ensure that the haste of apprenticeship creation doesn't serve to devalue them?

• Reference: 2015/3660
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

What assessment have you made of levels of funding in the FE sector and the subsequent impact this could have on London's ability to deliver the apprenticeships and skills needed for the future economy?