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• Reference: 2022/3919
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

According to an Inside Housing article, LGBTQ+ Homelessness: the Data Hole that Undermines Services, young people who identify as LGBTIQA+ are at greater risk of homelessness compared with their straight and non-trans contemporaries, yet this data is not routinely collected. Do the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) record data on how many LGBTIQ+ people are sleeping rough on London’s streets? If so, could you provide a breakdown of these numbers over the last four years, and if not, could you start collating and publishing this information?

• Reference: 2022/3920
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

What capital and revenue funding have you provided to which organisations in London supporting homeless LGBTIQA+ people over the last four years? Could you provide this information in table format?

• Reference: 2022/3626
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In your answer to my question 2022/2923, you stated that your commitment to requiring full consent for estate regeneration, as well as the replacement of any social housing lost through demolition, “stood to benefit Londoners from ethnic minority backgrounds, who are more likely to live in social housing”. Could you provide details as to how you are measuring and monitoring these potential benefits?

• Reference: 2022/2923
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Your Good Growth By Design Forward Plan, published in May 2022, emphasises the importance of an: “inclusive recovery from a pandemic that has highlighted inequalities in the capital and the need to counter racism and other forms of prejudice in the built environment.” Given the ongoing disproportionate impact of demolition on displacing Londoners from African, Caribbean, Asian, Latino and other minority ethnic backgrounds, how will you improve your estate redevelopment policies to ensure that this aspect of racism in the built environment is addressed?

• 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: 2022/2081
• 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: 2022/1135
• 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: 2021/5130
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

How are you working with Thrive LDN to ensure that the quarter of a million Wellbeing Ambassadors you plan to recruit are from diverse backgrounds and represent LGBTQ+ and disabled communities?

• Reference: 2021/4707
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Through your Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, will you consider funding a memorial to the nurses and healthcare workers who came to support London’s NHS from the Windrush Generation?

• Reference: 2021/1470
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

The campaign organisation Transport for All has had to write to Westminster Council complaining that newly licensed outdoor dining areas on streets have blocked access to people using wheelchairs and made them difficult for others to use safely. What guidance has Transport for London (TfL) provided to ensure that much-needed outdoor space for London’s bars and restaurants actually improves accessibility both to businesses and for passing through these areas?