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  • Unconscious Bias Training

    • Reference: 2021/0400
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
    The Government’s Equalities Office ‘Unconscious bias and diversity training – what the evidence says’ report published 15 December 2020, concluded that there: “is currently no evidence that this training changes behaviour in the long term or improves workplace equality in terms of representation of women, ethnic minorities or other minority groups”. It also states that there is emerging evidence of unintended negative consequences. As a result, it is being phased out in the Civil Service 1 . Given this damning conclusion, will you instruct City Hall, Metropolitan Police Service, London Fire Brigade and Transport for London to cease all unconscious...

  • Unconscious Bias Training at City Hall, LFB, TfL

    • Reference: 2021/0402
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
    Since you came to office in 2016, how many employees in a) City Hall b) London Fire Brigade, and c) Transport for London has been given unconscious bias training. How much did this cost?

  • London Election Counting Locations

    • Reference: 2020/4337
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    What alternative locations do the GLA plan to use instead of Excel for vote counting in next year's London elections, given that Excel is in use as a Nightingale Hospital?

  • London Election Counting Machines

    • Reference: 2020/4338
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Given the widespread reports and allegations of election fraud using Dominion/Smartmatic machines and systems in the US Presidential elections, what is the GLA doing to remove Smartmatic from involvement in the counting of votes in the London elections on 6th May 2021?

  • US Election Statements

    • Reference: 2020/4037
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Do you regret your recent statements concerning the US presidential election?

  • Poems on the Underground

    • 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?

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

    • Reference: 2020/1445
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 March 2020
    To what extent do you support equality, diversity and inclusion in London?

  • Free Speech

    • Reference: 2019/20759
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 December 2019
    To what extent do you support freedom of expression at Speaker’s Corner and at other public places in London?

  • Brexit

    • Reference: 2019/19705
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 17 October 2019
    What plans have you made for Londoners to celebrate the historic occasion of our departure from the European Union on 31 October 2019?

  • Indian Independence Day Violence (1)

    • Reference: 2019/19719
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 17 October 2019
    What is your opinion of the aggression and violent harassment displayed towards the small numbers of women, children and elderly Indians celebrating Indian Independence Day outside the Indian High Commission on the Aldwych on 15 August 2019?