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• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Marina Ahmad AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. Enver, you spoke earlier about ESOL provision. As you know, ESOL provision was cut through Government austerity by almost 60% before the devolution of the AEB. What impact has this had and should the Government dedicate additional funding to the AEB to rectify the shortfall?

• Reference: 2022/3651
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Will you join me in thanking Councillors and council staff across Lambeth and Southwark for their work throughout the recent period of national mourning and their role in ensuring the queue for the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II, which was mainly in the two boroughs, was safe and secure? As you will know, due to pressures to maintain street cleanliness, many parks and street cleaners in Southwark and parts of Lambeth worked an extra 24 hours during Queen Elizabeth’s lying-in-state period.

• Reference: 2019/17575
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Following your recent analysis that private renters are less likely to be registered to vote in London, what steps can you take to work with London Boroughs to drive up registration ahead of elections in London next May and a possible General Election at any moment?

• Reference: 2019/17576
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

Your recent analysis about private renters and voter registration is timely and important. It also highlights how frequently private renters have to move in London. Not having a stable address can sometimes make it harder to get ID. Is there also a concern that the Government current Voter ID pilots and future proposals may make it harder still for London’s private renters to have their voices heard?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Mr Mayor, I heard the word ‘failure’ and for some reason the first person I thought of was Boris Johnson [MP, former Mayor of London], your predecessor and of course their Mayor. You have highlighted very helpfully in your answer to Assembly Member Boff some of Boris Johnson’s massive achievements: £320,000 of taxpayers’ cash wasted on water cannon he could not legally use, £40 million on overpriced buses that overheated and were basically mobile saunas, and of course £43 million on the botched Garden Bridge. Do you think that perhaps their mistake is thinking that a mayor should be judged...

• Reference: 2017/2870
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

I have been contacted by a member of the public, who asks: why could the ladders used by the London Fire Brigade at Grenfell Tower only reach to the 12th floor?

• Reference: 2017/2871
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

I have been contacted by a member of the public, who asks: why did it take an extension ladder to arrive from Surrey to reach the 20th floor?

• Reference: 2017/2872
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

I have been contacted by a member of the public, who asks: why could army Chinooks not have been sent in with fire suppressant sprayed on the roof?

• Reference: 2017/2873
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

I have been contacted by a member of the public, who asks: does the London Fire Brigade have adequate resources to deal with large scale incidents such as the Grenfell Tower fire?

• Reference: 2017/2428
• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

What are the Mayor's views on modifications to timetables of affordable housing delivery made by S106 deed of variation? Should the GLA should be signatory to these on strategic applications and under the Mayor's new Homes for Londoners SPG, how will review mechanisms interact with requests to alter the agreed timetable of delivery?