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• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Dr Onkar Sahota AM (Deputy Chair in the Chair): Thank you. I am now going to ask a question in my own right. It is to Hannah. Failure to access to healthcare is not only detrimental for the individual but it also has public health challenges for Londoners. We have heard access to healthcare come up a number of times in the proceedings this morning. Has the GLA been doing any work on helping refugees and asylum seekers access the NHS system? If yes, what has that work been?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I would like to start with a question to Deputy Mayor Tom Copley, if I may. Hi, Tom. Last year, the Mayor said as the Chair of the C40 Cities Group, “One of my priorities is taking urgent action to address the causes and devastating human cost of forced migration created by the climate emergency”. I wondered if you could outline what actions overall the Mayor has taken in London since then?

• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Zack Polanski AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Good afternoon, panel. Enver, if I can begin with you, I have met recently also with the Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants. I also went to a protest recently with Reclaim the Sea and spoke to lots of people with lived experience of the system. Something that came up over and over again that you have echoed today is the barrier of not speaking English. In fact, recent census data shows that 303,000 Londoners do not speak English well and 52,000 Londoners do not speak English at all. Page 32 You...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. This is for Enver. Earlier on in the conversation, Enver, we talked about asylum seekers’ rights to work and the length of time and people wanted to have it shortened. You said for a length of time, but you did not give a length of time. What to you, would be workable, ideal, something around that region?

• Reference: 2023/3600
• Question by: Chair, London Assembly
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

What are the key issues facing refugees in London in 2023?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Sakina Sheikh AM: It is great to have you here to be reflecting on what has been achieved by the corporations. Myself and my colleagues will be spending the next couple of hours drilling down into some of the details to ensure some of the fantastic things that you have outlined hold tight in their validity, which I am sure they do, but we welcome more detail.I wanted to open something slightly broader and talk about the transition in terms of planning powers. I would like you to outline in as much detail as possible how the LLDC will ensure...

• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Hina Bokhari AM: I am going to talk about the topical and serious issue of sewage. In 2019, raw sewage flowed from a Thames Water overflow pipe into the wetlands, running into the canal and the River Lea on the Olympic Park a staggering 91 times over 1,026 hours. There are now reports of raw sewage once again pouring into the Park’s water network, flowing from the recent heavy rains. Not only does this hit the reputation of the Park as a welcoming, clean and attractive place, but the wetlands particularly were intended to be an eco-friendly area for animal...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Emma Best AM: I would just like to start off talking about housing delivery. According to recent figures from the Homes for Londoners Board, just 923 homes were started on LLDC land within the past five years. Lyn, why do you think housing starts seem to have stalled and what has been done and what is being done to address this?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to start with some questions for Lyn on transport and traffic reduction. I want to focus my questions on strategic journeys into the LLDC area and outside of it, not the local journeys, but those longer journeys into and out of the area. We saw a huge number of those for the Olympics itself, but there were also longer-term venues that attract people from longer distances, the shopping centre, the sporting venues, the new cultural venues coming up. Do you have a current assessment of the overall car travel mode share of these strategic journeys...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Tony Devenish AM: In my five years on the Assembly, of all the Mayoral bodies it comes up time and time again that LLDC in terms of community engagement is not terribly responsive. “Opaque” is another word I have been asked to use, “tick box consultation”. I wanted to read back to you a letter that one of your team had written to a community group only very recently where you had to hold your hands up because you had not uploaded an awful lot of documents related to the application on the online planning register. You did not apologise...