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• Reference: 2023/3945
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Do you think it is acceptable that many boroughs in London are not making progress on healthy streets?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 10 June 2021

Siân Berry AM: These are questions about transport and inequality. Mr Mayor, you can answer this first. We spoke about TfL’s deal the other week. I think you would agree with me that Londoners with the lowest incomes and with the most disadvantages have suffered the most due to the impact of these funding deals. I am thinking particularly about fare rises and the suspension of free travel before 9am for people holding Freedom Passes and 60+ London Oyster cards. Would you agree with me on that?

• Reference: 2021/0489
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

According to figures reported by HM Prison and Probation Service, it appears that the number of prisoners contracting coronavirus doubled during January 2021. Given the infection risk posed to prisoners, staff, and subsequently the families of staff, do you agree it would be efficient and effective to vaccinate all members of a prison population at the same time, and will you lobby the Government to vaccinate prisoners in this way?

• Reference: 2021/0936
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

During the London Assembly Housing Committee’s investigation for the report Five Steps to Build on ‘Everyone In’ in London, we heard that during the first wave of the pandemic, levels of COVID-19 infection were lower in the rough sleeping population, thanks to the ‘Everyone In’ scheme. Is this still the case?

• Reference: 2021/0939
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

How many coronavirus fatalities have we had amongst black cab drivers and drivers of Private Hire Vehicles?

• Reference: 2021/0943
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Funeral Expenses Payments are limited to people on certain means-tested benefits excludes some groups, most notably those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) conditions and undocumented migrants. What discussions, if any, have you had with the Government on this issue, and do they have any plans to remove these barriers?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I want to start with Martin Machray if that is all right. I know that we have just discussed the fact that London has been behind in vaccinating the over-80s and the fact that there are differences between boroughs. It has, I think, been hard for both you and us to get up-to-date, detailed, borough-by-borough data collated at a London level, and I just wanted to check what your progress was on making that data available to us so that we can keep an eye on things on a more day-to-day basis...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Siân Berry AM: Thank you for coming here, Minister. I have been looking at particularly the £23 million that was allocated by the Government to local authorities and charities last week on 25 January [2020]. This is money for the Community Champions to give vaccine advice and boost the take-up. Looking at the list, it seems that some of the boroughs within London who have not received money are some of the boroughs that have some of the highest populations of minority ethnic groups, in terms of numbers, and some of the most deprived boroughs. I can see Enfield, Croydon...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Murad Qureshi AM: Thank you, Chair. Can I address my question to Martin and then Tom? Martin, you informed us earlier that yesterday we had over a million Londoners vaccinated with the first jab. Martin Machray (Joint Regional Chief Nurse for London and Covid-19 Incident Director, NHS England): Yes. Murad Qureshi AM: That is great news, but can you give us an estimate of the proportion of Londoners not registered with GPs, and how we intend to vaccinate them?

• Reference: 2021/0367
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

How many suicides have occurred in Greater London on a monthly basis in 2020? Can we also have similar figures for 2019, for every month, to compare the two years.