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  • Health Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 12 October 2023
    Emma Best AM: Thank you. Like many, I have been devastated this party conference season to see on show the growing transphobic rhetoric in all parties [represented] within this Assembly. I clearly acknowledge with sadness that the crescendo of that lies with my own party due to the seniority with which those comments come. LGBT and particularly trans Londoners are some of the most vulnerable in London. It is not just the cost of living but the political landscape which is having a long-term effect on mental health. Firstly, can I give a rare and genuine thank you for your...

  • Question and Answer Session: Refugees in London (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 07 September 2023
    Emma Best AM: I think so. Thanks, Chair. Yes, I was just trying to work out Deputy Mayor [Tom] Copley’s political neutrality, which seemed a lot stronger when he was talking to Assembly Member [Tony] Devenish than Assembly Member [Unmesh] Desai.

  • Overcrowding (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 18 May 2023
    Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Just quickly, Mr Mayor. 18% of the affordable housing starts last year [2022] were family homes - only 18% - and, clearly, that is not going to meet the need to support overcrowded homes. Will you look urgently into making sure that that percentage increases when we look at these stats next year [2024]?

  • Question and Answer Session: Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2023
    Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning, both. Liz, we were just hearing from [Lord] Peter Hendy [CBE] then that Mayoral Development Corporations (MDCs) “get things done”. According to the [Sir Bob] Kerslake Review [ of GLA Group Housing Delivery ], the OPDC “has not delivered any housing directly”. Is this something that you think is now a position that has changed and you feel more confident about delivery?

  • Question and Answer Session: Transport for London (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 09 June 2022
    Emma Best AM: In 2017, TfL modelling suggested that 135,000 vehicles per day would use the expanded ULEZ and that was the justification for spending £130 million on the expansion. Fast-forward to today - or to November [2021] when we had the last stock of that - and you have 50,000 chargeable vehicles travelling within the expanded zone. That is a little over a third of where the estimated figure came in the forecast. Now, looking ahead to the London-wide expansion, TfL estimates that 87% of vehicles travelling within that zone will be compliant, leaving 13% that are not. There...

  • Mass deportation flights

    • Reference: 2020/4555
    • Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    The Home Office has used specially chartered flights to deport rejected refugees and migrants en masse for 12 years now. A constituent of mine wants Government to end this method of deportation for foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children. Do you share her concerns that mass deportation flights are a violation of basic human rights?

  • E-scooters

    • Reference: 2020/4556
    • Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Can you reassure my constituents that the increased use of e-scooters will enable pedestrians to use pavements safely? We must ensure greener forms of transport are safe for all concerned via additional regulation and by ensuring there is not a law enforcement deficit.

  • In-work poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Florence Eshalomi AM MP: Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that answer, and again it just highlights the fact that we do need to look at how we help families. Mr Mayor, you will remember last year we went to the Peckham Pantry in Southwark to see the good work of different organisations who were effectively supporting people who were in work but having to rely on food banks. Now, just yesterday the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that for the first time they are going to be feeding children in the UK, including £25,000 going to...

  • In-work poverty

    • Reference: 2020/4483
    • Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Why are in-work Londoners visiting Foodbanks in ever greater numbers?

  • Housing rough sleepers

    • Reference: 2020/3985
    • Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Will London be able to deliver a second ‘Everyone In’ programme to ensure those Londoners sleeping rough are able to be safe and secure over this current and future lockdowns and over the winter months?