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• Reference: 2023/3976
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Are you aware of plans by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew) to move its herbarium collection to Thames Valley Science Park in Reading, and are you concerned at the impact this will have on the standing of RBG Kew as a world-renowned centre of science excellence in London?

• Reference: 2023/3592
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What support could you provide through your Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme to the artists in Omega Works Warehouses in Haringey, who are facing eviction due to proposed redevelopment?

• Reference: 2022/3919
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

According to an Inside Housing article, LGBTQ+ Homelessness: the Data Hole that Undermines Services, young people who identify as LGBTIQA+ are at greater risk of homelessness compared with their straight and non-trans contemporaries, yet this data is not routinely collected. Do the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) record data on how many LGBTIQ+ people are sleeping rough on London’s streets? If so, could you provide a breakdown of these numbers over the last four years, and if not, could you start collating and publishing this information?

• Reference: 2022/3920
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

What capital and revenue funding have you provided to which organisations in London supporting homeless LGBTIQA+ people over the last four years? Could you provide this information in table format?

• Reference: 2022/3626
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

In your answer to my question 2022/2923, you stated that your commitment to requiring full consent for estate regeneration, as well as the replacement of any social housing lost through demolition, “stood to benefit Londoners from ethnic minority backgrounds, who are more likely to live in social housing”. Could you provide details as to how you are measuring and monitoring these potential benefits?

• Reference: 2022/2923
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Your Good Growth By Design Forward Plan, published in May 2022, emphasises the importance of an: “inclusive recovery from a pandemic that has highlighted inequalities in the capital and the need to counter racism and other forms of prejudice in the built environment.” Given the ongoing disproportionate impact of demolition on displacing Londoners from African, Caribbean, Asian, Latino and other minority ethnic backgrounds, how will you improve your estate redevelopment policies to ensure that this aspect of racism in the built environment is addressed?

• Reference: 2021/1470
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

The campaign organisation Transport for All has had to write to Westminster Council complaining that newly licensed outdoor dining areas on streets have blocked access to people using wheelchairs and made them difficult for others to use safely. What guidance has Transport for London (TfL) provided to ensure that much-needed outdoor space for London’s bars and restaurants actually improves accessibility both to businesses and for passing through these areas?

• Reference: 2020/2183
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Further to MD2362, MD2363, ADD2043, ADD2194 and the new Culture at Risk Business Support Fund, could you provide data on the total funding that has been made available by the GLA for the administration of the Creative Land Trust between 2016 and 2020, and the amount that has been funded by other donors?

• Reference: 2020/2184
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

During the coronavirus crisis, arts organisations have needed emergency funding to meet their rent obligations. A major long-term problem, outlined in MD2362, has been that these organisations need to purchase workspaces or secure long-term leases, but lack the large deposits required upfront, even if they have funding to support operating costs. Will you help these organisations invest in their futures by making affordable loans and grants available for these deposits?

• Reference: 2020/2185
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

What is the total amount of money the Creative Land Trust has so far succeeded in raising, from sources external to the GLA, to purchase buildings to provide affordable workspace in perpetuity across the capital, in each financial year since 2018? Could you provide the answer in a table format?