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• 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: 2021/3562
• 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?

• Reference: 2021/1110
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Do you agree with Middlesex University, who are calling for a package of measures to support the university sector in London, and if so will you make representations to the Government from measures including: -additional hardship funding and student premium funding, as recommended by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Students report on Tuition and Accommodation Costs during Covid19; -support extended beyond this financial year as accommodation contracts typically run to 31 July, or 31 August for private accommodation, and students also face a long summer of limited opportunities for work to supplement their income due to the ongoing pandemic...

• Reference: 2021/1111
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Did the Government inform or consult you on their decision to cut funding for London universities?

• Reference: 2021/1112
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What do you estimate the impact of cutting London Weighting will be for universities? Have you had discussions with the sector?

• Reference: 2020/3449
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 15 October 2020

The University sector welcomes the Mayor’s recognition of the role that London universities have to play in creating opportunities for Londoners from all backgrounds and the need to continue work on widening participation across London. Given the current Government policy rhetoric about levelling up, which tends to focus on the UK regions, do you agree that there is a need to lobby the Government about the need to level up in London, along with the rest of the country and that it is crucial that there is an understanding of ‘place within place’, as broad brush regional perspectives can miss...