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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I want to come back to the issue about what percentage of the AEB - which I understand is £318 million in total - is being spent on supporting people into training for low-carbon, circular economy, climate-ready jobs. I am being very specific about what they are.

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. The latest available figures show that as of June [2022], London’s National Health Service (NHS) had a record vacancy rate for fulltime staff exceeding 30,000 unfilled positions. I recognise that the Mayor does not have any statutory powers over the running of health and social care in London but there are still ways in which the GLA can support the sector, particularly around non-clinical and non-medical roles in the NHS, and social care as well. Deputy Mayor, what are you and the Mayor doing to support the health and social care sector in London?

• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Elly Baker AM: Thanks, Chair. My questions are on ESOL provision in London. M any years ago I worked for a project called the Union Learning Fund, which supported trade unions to broker training for people in the workplace. The most valuable and the most in demand of those courses were ESOL courses. We know that in London the demand for ESOL far outstrips supply, so how is the GLA increasing supply in this area?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to Jules and Michelle. It is good to see you again. I certainly enjoyed hearing from you yesterday [7 March 2022] at our Economy Committee and from the whole panel. It is really clear that adult education has a huge and long-lasting effect on Londoners’ ability to reach their full potential. I just wanted to speak to how we ensure that we reach all Londoners equally and make sure all groups in our society are represented and, to that end, I wanted to ask what progress the AEB made in tackling...

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to you both. It is good to see you again following yesterday’s Economy [Committee] meeting. Michelle, you spoke earlier about how the numbers of learners post-COVID has changed. I am just wondering what assessment the GLA has done of the changes to adult education itself post-COVID and how this has impacted on the GLA’s plans for the AEB.

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Jules and Michelle. My questioning was going to be mainly around the targeting of the AEB and so I was quite pleased that in the questions from Assembly Member Sheikh you have already recognised the Mayor and his programme is failing to adequately support disabled Londoners and so we do not need to go back too deeply into that.

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Susan Hall AM: Hello, both. I do not suppose you will like these questions, anyway, but here we go. We are all agreed that on one of your briefing papers, females, BAME people and disadvantaged Londoners were going to be targeted by this AEB. White pupils on free school meals aged between 11 and 16 getting a grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSE is 25%, whereas the same statistic is 38.7% for Black pupils, 45.2% for Asian pupils and 79.6% for Chinese pupils. Therefore, as always, these white pupils on free school meals seem to be falling...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. Jules, I just want to pick up on some of the discussion we were having earlier around health and that sector. My understanding is that health public services and care enrolments have been increasing year on year but, given the high vacancy rates in the sector, do you track how many people who achieve qualifications then go on to actually get jobs in that sector?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning or, rather, good afternoon, Deputy Mayor. You have a third of a billion pounds to spend a year. That is an awful lot of money. From what you said this morning I am not really sure if there is the step change in London that I would have thought for something you have full control on. The Mayor’s inability to turn up today illustrates. Is he actually interested in this hugely important area of public policy?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. I just want to return to this theme of ethnicity. Is ethnicity a good way to decide how you spend your resource?