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• Reference: 2020/4353
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

As so many AEB funded courses are happening online, how have you changed your assessment of courses?

• Reference: 2020/4354
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

As so many AEB funded courses have moved online, (a) has the capacity of courses increased in any areas and (b) have you seen demand fall or increase?

• Reference: 2020/4355
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

More children are being taken out of school to be home-educated, particularly among families from minority ethnic communities, who are at greater risk from Covid and may be more fearful of catching it. Further to your Learning at Home platform earlier this year when schools were closed, what are you doing to ensure those children who remain home-schooled in London are still receiving a full education?

• 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?

• 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.

• 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...

• Reference: 2020/4483
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Why are in-work Londoners visiting Foodbanks in ever greater numbers?

• Reference: 2020/4343
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

The Government recently announced their contingency plans for the 2021 exams period. Do you think these plans are sufficient for students in London?

• 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?

• Reference: 2020/3860
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Research published in October by the LSE gives evidence that disadvantaged students have fallen behind their more privileged peers. The biggest fear is that pupils will suffer permanent ‘educational scarring’ with a clear distinction between the highest and lowest income backgrounds. What work are you doing to help ensure children from lower income households are not left behind?