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• Reference: 2019/20998
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The Federation of Small Businesses (‘FSB’) have called for radical business rates reform to provide financial assistance for businesses impacted by Brexit uncertainty. With the high streets facing ‘retail apocalypse’, do you agree with the range of measures indicated in FSB’s recommendations to the Chancellor and what measures are necessary to help London’s small businesses and stop the decline in London’s High Streets?

• Reference: 2019/20966
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

The number of people sleeping rough on our streets is rising and winter is coming. What new work is your office doing to support those people, often extremely vulnerable, who find themselves sleeping rough in London? What urgent action should the government take to support you and other partners in this essential work?

• Reference: 2019/20967
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

A constituent has asked me to ask what the reasons are for the renaming of all Quietways to Cycleways? Quietways are for both walkers and cyclists and there is concern that this re-branding excludes walkers.

• Reference: 2019/20968
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

I am still receiving complains about increased noise from the Victoria tube line in the Seven Sisters area of Tottenham – both at night and daytime. What were the results of TfL’s recent noise data collection? What remediation has TfL done/plans to do (with timescale) to alleviate this issue?

• Reference: 2019/20969
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What other options to alleviate Tube Noise in the Seven Sisters area were considered and why were they not pursued?

• Reference: 2019/20970
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

What work have you done to understand the recent suggestions that the CPS has raised the threshold for bringing prosecutions for the serious offence of rape? What contact/representations have you made on this issue?

• Reference: 2019/20971
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Will work does the Metropolitan Police undertake with dating apps/online sites to ensure that romance fraudsters are not able to operate on such sites?

• Reference: 2019/20972
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Do you support calls for a romance fraudster database that could warn potential victims of likely harm?

• Reference: 2019/20999
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Your response to Question (2019/17739) addressed the issue of TfL’s response to Tube noise. Additionally, in your letter written on 5 November 2019 responding to the matter of TfL’s response to tube noise, you stated that Pandrol Vanguard track fastenings may reduce the amount of rail grinding. However, new installations have been halted to enable TfL to assess their success and concerns of in-carriage noise. What is your response in the meantime, specifically, to residents who endure the grinding noises for much longer periods of time than Tube riders? When can they expect an acceptable solution to reduce/remove noise? Is...

• Reference: 2019/21000
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

In your letter written on 5 November 2019 addressing the issue of TfL’s response to Tube noise, you wrote that the TfL has “carried out a targeted programme of rail grinding at key sites which, at many locations, has led to a reduction in both in-carriage and residential noise.” Can you provide proof of this reduction in each of the key sites that were targeted?