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• Reference: 2023/3949
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

When I visited Ridley Road Market in Dalston, some traders expressed considerable frustration over how Hackney Council had spent funds provided by your Good Growth Fund to upgrade the market. How are you ensuring money from your Good Growth Fund is spent wisely and that the local community is properly consulted?

• Reference: 2023/3950
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Given your support for the arts and social change in London, will you express your solidarity with striking workers at the Royal Society of Arts, who are taking industrial action for the first time in the organisation’s 270-year history?

• Reference: 2023/3951
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3545, in which you refer to the June 2023 report: Rights and Risks: Migrant labour exploitation in London, which you commissioned from Focus on Labour Exploitation and The Young Foundation. In this you said: “I have urged the Government to do more to ensure migrants can access their rights, can identify abuses they are experiencing, and have access to the support they need.” Aside from lobbying Government, what actions have you taken to act on the recommendations in the report?

• Reference: 2023/3952
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

My recent report, London’s ‘Retrofit Revolution’: What’s going wrong?, highlights London councils’ poor delivery of home upgrades via the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). How do you plan to work with councils to ensure this does not happen again in the next round of the SHDF, given £131.5 million will be made available to London?

• Reference: 2023/3953
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

You won £12 million from the Government for Phase 4 of the Warmer Homes programme, a significant drop-off from the £40 million for the previous phase. What assessments have you made of: a) why this huge drop-off in funding occurred, and b) the impacts a smaller Warmer Homes scheme will have on London?

• Reference: 2023/3954
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Mayoral Decision 3132 outlines the current funding plans for the next phase of the Warmer Homes grants programme. How many households do you expect to upgrade with this funding?

• Reference: 2023/3955
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

As we head towards another winter that will be incredibly costly to Londoners in terms of their fuel bills, when will you be launching Phase 4 of the Warmer Homes grants programme?

• Reference: 2023/3956
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

As Phase 3 of the Warmer Homes programme has completed, could you provide a full breakdown of: a) how many households were considered fully eligible for works to take place, b) how many individual measures of each type were installed, and c) how many homes were upgraded throughout Phase 3?

• Reference: 2023/3957
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3550, in which you said: “Further rounds of engagement are planned.” How will you engage with climate advocacy groups, fuel poverty charities and green thinktanks to ensure their expertise features in these discussions?

• Reference: 2023/3958
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

In September 2023, step-free access became unavailable at several Transport for London (TfL) stations due to flooding. Could you provide information for each year since 2019 when step-free access became unavailable at a TfL station due to flooding, covering: a) which station lost step-free access, b) the date it lost access, c) how long access was unavailable, and d) whether the station remained operational?