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• Reference: 2020/3044
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

What steps are you taking to improve air quality around the Royal Docks? Given there is significant residential development completed and planned in the area, constituents have raised with me issues of poor air quality, in part due to the presence of London City Airport, but also lots of industrial and logistics sites, construction sites and the future Silvertown Tunnel.

• Reference: 2019/20882
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

I welcome Tower Hamlets’ £200 000 air quality fund to support those with ideas for improving air quality in the borough. Please outline the ways in which your policies have supported the work of Tower Hamlets in improving air quality.

• Reference: 2019/17744
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Do you have projections for the anticipated growth in the extent of infestation by the oak processionary moth in London over the next year or so both in relation to the areas affected and the number of nests?

• Reference: 2019/17745
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Do you have figures for the numbers of people who have suffered an adverse reaction to the moth in London? Are you concerned about the public health impact of the moth?

• Reference: 2019/17746
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

What are the projected costs in relation to the oak processionary moth in London? What, if any, element of this cost falls on the GLA?

• Reference: 2019/17622
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Residents have complained to me that the emissions from idling canal boats adjacent to their homes are impacting upon their daily lives. I am aware you have encouraged boroughs to seek funding to address such issues through the air quality fund. Please could you advise how many boroughs have accessed funding for the installation of tow path charging points and what else you are doing to tackle this issue?

• Reference: 2019/14609
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

A recent survey of Londoners found that more than 75 per cent of respondents cited vegetables going off at home as the reason for wastage, with 24 per cent buying too much to use at the supermarket. How can you support Londoners to reduce their food waste?

• Reference: 2019/14610
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

What can London’s supermarkets do to reduce food wastage in their stores, or how can they help Londoners to reduce food wastage at home?

• Reference: 2019/12260
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 June 2019

What is your view of Waitrose’s trial to reduce plastic packaging in their Oxford store, and will you encourage other supermarkets in London to follow suit if successful?

• Reference: 2018/3374
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 22 November 2018

A constituent has asked me if plans for cleaning up the River Thames could include reintroducing oyster beds, and if so within what timeframe would this be possible?