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• Reference: 2023/4818
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In your answer to my question 2019/20119, you noted you were considering a memorial to the 12,000 Londoners who lost their lives in the Great Smog of 1952, and identified the 70th anniversary in 2022 as the best way to do so. Could you provide me with an update on your plans for any such memorial?

• Reference: 2023/3566
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2021/3532 about the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, in which you said: “Given the significant opposition that exists and the local disruption this event causes I have written to both ExCel and the event organiser strongly urging them not to hold this event at ExCel in the future.” Could you tell me what response you received from both ExCel and the event organiser, and what further representations have you made to both ExCel and the organiser about not holding this event in London?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. My question is for Enver Solomon. I met recently with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in preparation for this plenary. They told me about the experience of a woman who claimed asylum in the UK, was 33 weeks pregnant and living in asylum accommodation near Gatwick. She was being given food that was unsuitable during pregnancy. She complained about the food to the hotel and medical practitioners from her hospital also spoke to hotel managers saying that the food was unsuitable for her and her baby, but no...

• Reference: 2021/0400
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

The Government’s Equalities Office ‘Unconscious bias and diversity training – what the evidence says’ report published 15 December 2020, concluded that there: “is currently no evidence that this training changes behaviour in the long term or improves workplace equality in terms of representation of women, ethnic minorities or other minority groups”. It also states that there is emerging evidence of unintended negative consequences. As a result, it is being phased out in the Civil Service 1 . Given this damning conclusion, will you instruct City Hall, Metropolitan Police Service, London Fire Brigade and Transport for London to cease all unconscious...

• Reference: 2021/0402
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Since you came to office in 2016, how many employees in a) City Hall b) London Fire Brigade, and c) Transport for London has been given unconscious bias training. How much did this cost?

• Reference: 2020/4337
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

What alternative locations do the GLA plan to use instead of Excel for vote counting in next year's London elections, given that Excel is in use as a Nightingale Hospital?

• Reference: 2020/4338
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Given the widespread reports and allegations of election fraud using Dominion/Smartmatic machines and systems in the US Presidential elections, what is the GLA doing to remove Smartmatic from involvement in the counting of votes in the London elections on 6th May 2021?

• Reference: 2020/4037
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Do you regret your recent statements concerning the US presidential election?

• Reference: 2019/20759
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

To what extent do you support freedom of expression at Speaker’s Corner and at other public places in London?

• Reference: 2019/19705
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

What plans have you made for Londoners to celebrate the historic occasion of our departure from the European Union on 31 October 2019?