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• Reference: 2024/1201
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

On 25 January 2024 the London Assembly unanimously passed my budget related motion, calling on you to prioritise addressing the gaps in training workers in the skills needed for the retrofitting industry and to explore all potential sources of income that can be put towards retrofit programmes, including calling on the Government to provide consistent, multi-year funding without restrictive conditions. Could you update me as to when you will respond to this motion?

• Reference: 2024/1202
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

I support your decision to install air filters in 200 schools with a view to expanding this programme in future. What evidence will you record from these installations and will you be collecting data to show improved attendance, reductions in infectious disease spread and improved health outcomes for pupils and staff with health conditions?

• Reference: 2024/1193
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Are you on track to be the ‘greenest Mayor ever’?

• Reference: 2024/0541
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Market Village in the Stratford Centre has been forced to close due to the site’s landlord going into administration. How are you working with Newham Council to: a) support the businesses affected, and b) protect this valuable cultural space from permanent closure?

• Reference: 2024/0542
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4801, in which you said, “most of [the London Finance Commission’s] longstanding recommendations remain valid today.” Could you provide information from the last 12 months of: a) when you met Government officials to lobby for at least one of the recommendations made in the report, and b) which recommendation(s) you lobbied for in each instance?

• Reference: 2024/0543
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4384, in which you outlined the parameters of the Migrant Advice Fund. How many people are you aiming to support through the Fund over its 12-month funding period, and are you planning to continue the Fund in 2024-25?

• Reference: 2024/0544
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “make more than half of London’s area green by 2050” (p.156), what percentage of London is now green, and what increase since the launch of the strategy does this amount to?

• Reference: 2024/0545
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “increase [London’s urban forest] by 10 per cent by 2050,” (p.167) what percentage increase in London’s canopy cover has been realised since 2018?

• Reference: 2024/0546
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objectives to create: a) 20 hectares of species-rich woodland, b) 50 hectares of flower-rich grassland, c) ten km of rivers and streams, and d) five hectares of reedbeds by 2025, (p.182), how many hectares of a), b), and d) and how many km of c) have been created since the launch of the...

• Reference: 2024/0547
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your statement that “by 2026 no biodegradable or recyclable waste will be sent to landfill” (p.25), from the most recent data available, could you tell me what percentage of biodegradable or recyclable waste is being sent to landfill? Please provide data broken down by households and businesses.