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• Reference: 2023/3562
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Could you provide an update on your work on health and climate resilience, including whether the London Climate Resilience Review will consider the public health benefits of climate adaptation?

• Reference: 2023/3077
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

What discussions have you had with the Government to ensure that London festivals are still able to access drug testing facilities to keep festival goers safe?

• Reference: 2023/2586
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 8 March 2023, it states that the Head of Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco (London) for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ (OHID) made a presentation to attendees on the Government's continuity of care position and outlined "the key challenges and recommended steps to take to meet the Government's targets.” Could you provide more detail about the challenges and recommended steps described by OHID?

• Reference: 2023/2587
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

A constituent has raised concerns that, in the UK over the past year around 80 people under the age of 20 have died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test. Could you tell me: a) how many people under the age of 20 in London have died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test over the past year, b) what assessment the GLA Group Public Health Unit and your Statutory Health Advisor have made of the ongoing threat of coronavirus to London’s children, and c) how you are working to mitigate any threat?

• Reference: 2023/1842
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

A member of a Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust WhatsApp group said that any doctor who has a visa sponsored by the Trust and decides to go on strike will be reported by the Trust to the Border Force. The Trust has since clarified that they are fully supportive of everyone’s right to strike without judgement, fear or consequence. As Chair of the London Health Board, will you reiterate to London’s health and care leadership that such threats are unacceptable?

• Reference: 2023/1859
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Now that the London Drugs Forum has started to have meetings, could you publish, a) its terms of reference, and b) workplan?

• Reference: 2023/1860
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 18 January 2023, it states that work is taking place to complete a London Drugs Problem Profile. Do you intended to publish the London Drugs Problem Profile and, if so, when?

• Reference: 2023/1861
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

In the minutes of the London Drugs Forum meeting on 18 January 2023, it states that attendees reflected on how legislative changes aiming to divert drug users from the criminal justice system. They said these changes: “would intersect with treatment services and the possible impact this could have on provision.” Will you publish more detail about these possible challenges?

• Reference: 2023/1862
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

The final set of Covid-19 infection data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was on 24 March 2023. Are you confident that your public health teams can track and manage any new Covid-19 variant of concern and keep Londoners safe, without access to this data?

• Reference: 2023/0636
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 February 2023

In answer to question 2022/3311 you said that across the lifetime of the Mayor’s Academies Programme, “over 930 Londoners will participate in new training and education as a result of health hub activities.” In answer to question 2022/3450 you said that “over 2,250 Londoners will participate in training and education because of health hub activities.” Could you confirm the correct figure?