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  • Question and Answer Session: Refugees in London (Supplementary) [11]

    • 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...

  • Foodbank Use and Londoners

    • 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?

  • Conscious Advertising Network

    • 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?

  • Fire at De Pass Gardens

    • 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...

  • Fighting Racism in Football

    • Reference: 2019/9324
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
    I welcome that you have signed ‘ The Times’ manifesto to fight racism in football. What role do you think sporting organisations can play in leading community inclusion activities as well as anti-racism and other anti-discrimination activities?

  • Met Police and London Fire Brigade affiliation to Electronics Watch

    • Reference: 2019/9325
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 16 May 2019
    Are the Metropolitan Police and Fire Service to affiliate to Electronics Watch, as recommended by UNISON?

  • Modern day slavery

    • Reference: 2018/2759
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 19 October 2018
    How are you working to improve multi-agency partnerships across London to tackle modern day slavery?

  • Community Rehabilitation

    • Reference: 2017/2914
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    What has the re-offending rate been for prisoners admitted onto the 'Through the Gate' programme run by the London Community Rehabilitation Company?

  • Youth engagement

    • Reference: 2017/2915
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 13 July 2017
    A constituent has contacted me recently to ask what engagement opportunities are there for young people to feed into and comment on the work of the Mayor and London Assembly?

  • Attitudes in the Met

    • Reference: 2016/4797
    • Question by: Unmesh Desai
    • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
    What action are you taking with the Metropolitan police over the allegations of homophobia and incompetence in the Met's response to the murders of four men in Barking and Dagenham Borough between 19 June 2014 and 15 October 2015?