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• Reference: 2021/0941
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Is it sustainable, given the effect of Covid-19 on travel patterns, for the Government to keep pressing ahead with above inflation fare rises every year?

• Reference: 2021/0942
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What is TfL doing to remove derelict telephone kiosks along its Red Routes like the Edgware Road?

• Reference: 2021/0943
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Funeral Expenses Payments are limited to people on certain means-tested benefits excludes some groups, most notably those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) conditions and undocumented migrants. What discussions, if any, have you had with the Government on this issue, and do they have any plans to remove these barriers?

• Reference: 2021/0944
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In MQ 2019/6234 you called for a successor scheme to be introduced to replace the current help to Buy Scheme. You said, "This successor scheme should support a new housing supply without pushing up prices. It should incentivise better practices and higher standards among housebuilders. Crucially, I am also clear that homebuilders who benefit directly from state financial support through Help to Buy must deliver far higher proportions of affordable homes. In future, if the Government is willing to spend this level of money on building new homes, it must be directed towards genuinely affordable housing. My team will make...

• Reference: 2021/0945
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Following MQ 2020/3532 are you in a position to confirm the date when the first dibs review will begin?

• Reference: 2021/0946
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

With the Census 2021 scheduled on the 21 st of March this year when will the results be published and what effect, if any, will they have on your London Plan?

• Reference: 2021/0947
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

When do you think TfL will start on site with the 10,000 homes to be built over 300 acres of its land?

• Reference: 2021/0948
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

When do you think MOPAC will deliver the 2,500 promised, pre-COVID targets for homes on Met sites?

• 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?