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• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning to the panel. My main question is to Tunde [Olayinka] and Hannah [Boylan] and it is about modern slavery. Modern slavery was described by the Archbishop of Westminster, I think in 2016 or 2017, as “the dark underbelly of London’s society”. That still remains the case, although there is a growing and welcome recognition of the issue. In the context of modern slavery, how is it impacting today on refugee communities and what is the LSMP doing to address it? If you want to start off, Tunde [Olayinka], and then if I...

• 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: 2019/20880
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

One of my local foodbanks is appealing for extra donations over the Christmas period. Please outline how you are encouraging Londoners to support each other during challenging periods like Christmas?

• Reference: 2019/19911
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Would you consider opening discussions on signing the GLA group up to the Conscious Advertising Network?

• Reference: 2019/14508
• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

Barking and Dagenham Council’s response to the fire at De Pass Gardens was commendable. 30 minutes after the initial reports, the Council’s emergency support team was on location, within 2 hours, a rescue-rest centre had been set up and by midnight, the Council had secured a bed in the Borough for every resident who needed it. With the help from Go-Ahead busses and the council’s own passenger transport services, residents were taken to where they needed to be. Will you be ensuring that the good practice shown by Barking and Dagenham Council on the day of the incident can be...