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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: 2021/1141
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How many public toilets have been lost in London in the last 10 and 20 years?

• Reference: 2021/1143
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

How will you ensure that short-term population shifts as a result of the pandemic don’t influence London’s funding for the next 10 years as a result of the census?

• Reference: 2020/2353
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Could you provide a list of engagements, hospitality and gifts received by the Mayor of London and/or his Chief of Staff between 1 July 2015 and 1 May 2016?

• Reference: 2020/2019
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 June 2020

London is now leading the way in terms of transforming out streets for pedestrians and cyclists. But in conversations with other global cities, what further initiatives are you looking to introduce to ensure London's transition and recovery from the covid-19 pandemic improves social, economic and environmental outcomes?

• Reference: 2020/1587
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

As you have highlighted, on ITV News on 7 May, the figures on Covid-19 deaths from the Office for National Statistics “expose the grim reality of the significant structural inequalities that have existed in our society for generations”. Because of such inequalities, the financial burden of burying victims of the virus will be adding to the considerable trauma and stress of many grieving Londoners. What is being done to ensure that people can afford to give their loved ones a dignified funeral?

• Reference: 2020/0265
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 January 2020

This month we will mark Holocaust Memorial Day. In light of the recent cases in London of an attack on a rabbi and anti-Jewish graffiti smeared across synagogues, will you join me in condemning those responsible and calling on all Londoners to stand in solidarity against racist and anti-semitic abuse?

• 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?