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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: 2022/3291
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

You have previously said that introducing voter ID would be voter suppression and would disproportionately impact on ethnic minorities. Therefore, will you coordinate with councils in London on the impact of voter ID being unnecessarily bought in, looking specifically at what options could be used to help get ID to residents easily?

• Reference: 2022/2459
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

What London specific barriers have been identified that discourage or stop people from registering to vote?

• Reference: 2022/2460
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

One in eight Londoners is not registered to vote. What action is being taken to encourage people in London to register to vote?

• Reference: 2021/0349
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

What practical steps can be taken here in London to tackle and minimise child poverty?

• Reference: 2020/1579
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

What strategic plans are in place in London to aid the capital’s recovery and what will the ‘new normal’ look like?

• Reference: 2019/20938
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What steps are you taking to make sure we defeat the hatred seen in the London Bridge attack by rejecting division and instead focusing on the values that bind us together?

• Reference: 2019/17402
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

It has been suggested that the need for members of your Peer Outreach Team to pay for work travel costs up-front represents a barrier to working in the team. Will you further support their valuable work by providing members of the team with a pre-loaded Oyster Card for work trips, or enabling one to be linked to a GLA payment card, to help with these expenses?