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• Question by: Navin Shah and David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Navin Shah AM (Chair): Thank you very much. Minister Zahawi, I know this morning already you had a very busy schedule. I have heard you on Leading Britain's Conversation (LBC), we have seen you on Sky [Network] Television (TV) and you are here this morning with us. I cannot thank you enough. May I just on behalf of the Assembly if you can spare another minute, ask you a question of reassurance that we are seeking on behalf of Londoners? That is: is London now receiving its fair share of COVID‑19 vaccinations and can we be confident that it will...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

David Kurten AM: I would like to ask, yes, Martin Machray if I could, back to the people who were here before. You refer to the vaccine or the injections that people are being given from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna as vaccines. However, the substances from Pfizer and Moderna are not vaccines, as people understand vaccines. They are experimental Messenger RNA (mRNA) gene technologies. Why do you continue to refer to those two substances and injections as vaccines?

• Reference: 2021/0044
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Which data sources do you use to inform your statements on Covid-19?

• Reference: 2021/0055
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

In September 2020, you told the Assembly that you were seeking clarity from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on what the abolition of Public Health England, and creation of the National Institute for Health Protection, would mean for London. Have you received a response from Government to your concerns on this issue?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

David Kurten AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to ask Dr Fenton. We heard from the Chair and you earlier about admissions to hospitals with COVID being the highest since the start of the declared pandemic in March 2020. How do total hospital admissions now, this January, compare to last January and other winter seasons before this year?

• Reference: 2020/2924
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

Given the paucity of commercial advertising currently available to TfL to entertain London’s commuters on the tube, I welcome the return of ‘Poems on the Underground’. However, the current offerings available read like the maunderings of the disturbed. Whilst I am well aware that there are some in our city who are not keen on British culture, the English language has always offered a rich poetic tradition. Is it possible that those involved in this initiative could be persuaded to provide Londoners with something slightly more uplifting in these difficult times?

• Reference: 2020/1474
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 May 2020

Given that men are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, making up two-thirds of its victims, what specific actions have you taken to reduce the Covid-19 morbidity rate in men in London?

• Reference: 2020/1445
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 19 March 2020

To what extent do you support equality, diversity and inclusion in London?

• Reference: 2019/19721
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

It was recently reported that firemen are twice as likely to develop cancer than the population at large ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49811603 ). What actual figures are you aware of which compare cancer among firemen to the general population?

• Reference: 2017/0325
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 18 January 2017

How are the night czar's late night tube journeys, armed with a clipboard and questionnaire, bringing real benefits to London's night-time economy?