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• Reference: 2024/1205
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

A constituent has raised with me the importance of Bethnal Green food bank in supporting homeless and low-income households to get by in the ongoing cost of living crisis. Will you support foodbanks across London with extra funding to help them provide for the escalating demand in food and toiletries?

• Reference: 2023/0299
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 January 2023

In your response to my question 2021/4069, you said that accessible toilets created via Good Growth Fund investments are defined as those meeting the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements and complying with building regulations Approved Document M, to ensure that a broad range of people can access and use public facilities. Could you provide an update on how many accessible toilets that meet the DDA and building regulations requirements have been funded by the Good Growth Fund, and whether more are planned?

• Reference: 2023/0285
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 January 2023

What more can you do to help nurses in London with the high cost of living?

• Reference: 2021/3532
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

The DSEI arms fair returns to the ExCel London this month. Past events have seen weapons sold to regimes that commit human rights abuses. Do you agree that it is wrong for London to host an international arms fair?

• Reference: 2021/1446
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

Since you and the Night Czar launched the Women’s Night Safety charter in 2017, how have you measured its success and impact in the community, beyond voluntary signups from businesses in the night time economy?

• Reference: 2021/0981
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In your answer to my questions 2021/0023 and 2021/0484 you stated that the London Recovery board is working to support Londoners in debt and that you were funding the Debt Free London Partnership’s free debt advice helpline to be delivered 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout January, February and March. Could you tell me if you plan to fund the free debt advice helpline beyond March?

• Reference: 2021/0982
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

When will you publish the research commissioned from Centre for London into support for freelancers during the crisis?

• Reference: 2021/0983
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

In your answer to my question 2021/0024 you told me that the Greater London Investment Fund (GLIF) hosted a roundtable discussion on 28 January 2021 which was to look at the needs of disabled entrepreneurs, as well as women and BAME entrepreneurs. Could you tell me the recommendations that came out of this roundtable, and also specifically how the roundtable identified ways for the fund to better benefit disabled SME founders?

• Reference: 2021/0984
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

The Centre for London reports that there are half as many apprenticeship starts in London per 1,000 jobs, compared with the rest of the UK. What plans do you have to improve this situation?

• Reference: 2021/0985
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

With regard to the £9 million fund you launched in May 2020 to help skills providers switch to remote training, could you tell me: a) how many people have accessed these courses, and b) how many have found new employment since then or set up their own business?