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• Reference: 2024/1217
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The most recent Mayor’s Equality Report covered the period between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2022. When will your next Mayor’s Equality Report be published?

• Reference: 2022/2915
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

To what extent has the Young Londoners Fund reached young members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community in London? Could you provide details of any assessment carried out of funded programmes to ascertain the number of GRT young people reached, and whether any specific funding has been allocated to GRT youth projects?

• 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: 2022/1837
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/0992, in which you stated that all young people in need will have access to a personal mentor by 2024, and that this: “includes those young people such as Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.” What reporting will you and your office do on the progress of your promise to provide a mentor for every young Londoner, and will any data provided include a breakdown of the diversity of young people supported, including the number from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups?

• 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: 2022/1318
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

In your response to the February 2022 London Assembly Health Committee report, Trans Health Matters, you stated that you engage with trans and gender-diverse people through roundtables and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. Could you confirm which organisations are representing trans and gender-diverse people at these meetings?

• 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: 2022/0992
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

On 9 February 2022 you announced: ‘a mentor for every young Londoner’. How many of these mentors will work with young people in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities?

• Reference: 2022/0997
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

In your Action Plan - Transparency, Accountability and Trust in Policing you announced a three-month project with communities to co-design and launch a new Disproportionality Scrutiny Group. Did this project happen, and if so, what were the outcomes?

• Reference: 2021/4829
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

A blind constituent has raised with me the aggressive behaviour, assault, and intimidation they experience while traveling in London. Will you consider working with disability advocacy groups and campaigners to communicate with Londoners about how to support disabled people traveling independently on the transport system?