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• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Navin Shah AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to explore further the issue about the childcare aspects. One of the largest barriers to participation in London’s labour market for women is the lack of flexible and affordable childcare. I would certainly say that if you would, please, look into this as one of the priority issues. Looking at the GLA’s history with regards to childcare, before 2008 - I think it was in 2003 - there was a Childcare Strategy that was launched at the time, followed by about £33 million in investment planned over a three-year period, to...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Navin Shah AM: Yes, on the London Living Wage again, are recipients of LEP funding required to pay their employees the London Living Wage? Harvey McGrath (Deputy Chair, London Enterprise Panel): In terms of ...? Navin Shah AM: Are the recipients of the organisations that you fund required to pay the London Living Wage?

• Reference: 2014/3047
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Further to my question 2014/2845, will you now facilitate a meeting between TfL, residents and Brent Council to discuss residents’ concerns about Chamberlayne Road (Kensal Rise) which is causing congestion, noise-pollution, safety issues and is generally detrimental impact on local residents from extraordinary volume of buses?

• Reference: 2012/0021-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

There are published maps of both London Underground and London Rail lines, with detailed predicted levels of passenger congestion, which inform the democratic debate about reducing congestion. Would you agree to publish and maintain equivalently-detailed maps of under-use of existing London rail transport corridors, compared to their estimated maximum passenger capacity (whatever the current train service), which could contribute to discussions about population increases in London?

• Reference: 2012/0022-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

How old are the earliest current Oyster gates at stations, and what is their predicted lifespan? Do you accept that many of the green and red LED displays have degraded so much it is sometimes impossible to see if they are entry or exit gates? When will you upgrade the displays?

• Reference: 2012/0023-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Do you acknowledge the benefits of deflecting demand away from central London-bound journeys, into orbital and contra-flow radial journeys? What steps are you taking, regarding your promise to build orbital extensions to Croydon trams and the DLR, to meet at Bromley North, for instance?

• Reference: 2012/0024-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thank you for your response to Question No. 928/2012. Can you confirm that London Overground stations that have multiple kinds of litter bins really do maintain separate processing streams for material put into "paper", "plastic" and general litter bins by passengers? How are the streams handled, and how pure are they? Are there predicted figures for final separated waste stream proportions, and have they proved to be accurate?

• Reference: 2012/0025-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

What have you done in response to the frequent breakdowns of the specially designed Queen Jubilee Line trains?

• Reference: 2012/0026-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

How do you intend to improve the quality of the Jubilee line for Londoners who constantly experience delays and breakdowns?

• Reference: 2012/0027-1
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Given the recent threat of strikes by the RMT, will you meet and negotiate with the drivers, to avoid the disruption to our transport system during the Olympics?