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• Question by: Navin Shah and David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Navin Shah AM (Chair): Thank you very much. Minister Zahawi, I know this morning already you had a very busy schedule. I have heard you on Leading Britain's Conversation (LBC), we have seen you on Sky [Network] Television (TV) and you are here this morning with us. I cannot thank you enough. May I just on behalf of the Assembly if you can spare another minute, ask you a question of reassurance that we are seeking on behalf of Londoners? That is: is London now receiving its fair share of COVID‑19 vaccinations and can we be confident that it will...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

David Kurten AM: I would like to ask, yes, Martin Machray if I could, back to the people who were here before. You refer to the vaccine or the injections that people are being given from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna as vaccines. However, the substances from Pfizer and Moderna are not vaccines, as people understand vaccines. They are experimental Messenger RNA (mRNA) gene technologies. Why do you continue to refer to those two substances and injections as vaccines?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

David Kurten AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to ask Dr Fenton. We heard from the Chair and you earlier about admissions to hospitals with COVID being the highest since the start of the declared pandemic in March 2020. How do total hospital admissions now, this January, compare to last January and other winter seasons before this year?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

David Kurten AM: Good morning, everybody. My first question would go to David Bellamy. I think you would be the person to answer this, but if you are not you can pass it on. My question is, what remuneration will the members of the London Transition Board and London Recovery Board be receiving for their service?

• Reference: 2020/0929
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 05 March 2020

What are your plans for the future of the Black Cab trade?

• Reference: 2019/2108
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

What are your plans for the future of the black cab trade in London?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

David Kurten AM: I just want to follow from Assembly Member Arnold’s question about the link between children who are excluded from school, or people in general, and then the propensity to get involved in crime. I know, Commissioner, you said that correlation is not necessarily causation, but I wondered if the both of you have considered something that you did not mention that may be staring us in the face, which is that family breakdown and fatherlessness possibly is a cause for both of those things. In London among young people there is an epidemic of fatherlessness, and this...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Thank you, Chairman. Good morning. Mr Mayor, your Transport Strategy talks about extending Crossrail from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet. I do not know whether that is something for the far distant future or something you would like to see happen sooner. Will this delay in the central part of Crossrail affect your plans for a Crossrail extension?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

David Kurten AM: It was very good to hear your answers about Brexit earlier, the positivity you had about OPDC going forward and that as we approach Brexit day people are still wanting to invest in London. Obviously, you are concerned about skills. Michael, you half‑answered my question talking about how you are going to be partnering up with West London College and there will be 150 spaces there, but I would be very interested to hear any more details about the opportunities that you have to provide apprenticeships to British kids and kids from London who could gain the...