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  • Access to gyms and swimming pools

    • Reference: 2021/4419
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2021
    A constituent has raised with me an issue with changes brought in at their local borough gym, which restrict swimming slots to 45 minutes, without an equivalent reduction in price. Given the need to keep Londoners healthy after multiple lockdowns, do you support exercise facilities safely removing these expensive restrictions?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (1)

    • Reference: 2021/1199
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    I note that on 24 February 2021 Mr Toyin Agbetu - one of your Commissioners for Diversity in the Public Realm resigned, after his blog posts commenting on Jewish people were brought to City Hall’s attention by Jewish News . One of his posts claimed there was an ‘immoral hierarchy of suffering’ which had seen victims of the Holocaust ‘served well by Nazi hunters’ compared to African victims of the slave trade. Agbetu has also claimed that Jews played a leading role in the Atlantic slave trade. In 2007, he also heckled the Queen, during a service at Westminster Abbey...

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (2)

    • Reference: 2021/1200
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    Given that your recruitment due diligence failed to uncover the alleged anti-Semitism of one Commission appointee, what else might it have failed to pick up? How can Londoners have confidence in the people you have selected?

  • Supporting London’s musicians through recovery and post-Brexit (1)

    • Reference: 2021/0980
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    At the London Assembly Plenary on Thursday 4 March 2021, we heard from Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, Justine Simons OBE, that so far, you have provided £3.9 million to support the creative sector which has helped 13,000 individuals, artists and businesses. This sector was worth £58 billion to London’s economy prior to the pandemic and provides more than 600,000 jobs, which is 11.9 per cent of all jobs in the capital, compared to 4.9 per cent in the rest of the UK. What further support are you providing to retain skilled creative workers in the city...

  • Supporting London’s musicians through recovery and post-Brexit (2)

    • Reference: 2021/1003
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2021
    In your answer to my question 2021/0483 you stated that on 3 February 2021 you wrote to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Oliver Dowden MP, about the UK Government’s failure to come to a deal with the EU and the impact on the creative and cultural sectors. Could you publish this letter and share any response you receive from the Secretary of State with me?

  • Supporting London’s musicians post-Brexit

    • Reference: 2021/0483
    • Question by: Caroline Russell
    • Meeting date: 25 February 2021
    Recently The Independent reported that the Government has misled the UK music industry over the issue of visa-free travel for musicians to/from the EU. It was in fact the UK Government who rejected the EU offer of reciprocal visa free travel for touring musicians. UK Music in their 2020 report, Music by Numbers, found that the total export revenue of the music industry was £2.9 billion in 2019. Do you agree with me that musicians being able to tour the EU is vital for our economy and vital for cultural exchange, and will you call on the Government to get...

  • New Years’ Fireworks Display

    • Reference: 2021/0043
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
    Is the Mayor happy with the public’s response to his New Years’ fireworks display?

  • The Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm

    • Reference: 2021/0047
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 21 January 2021
    To ask the Mayor what progress has been made in appointments to his Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (1)

    • Reference: 2020/4067
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Given that Historic England - the statutory advisor to central and local government on heritage proposals - has clearly stated its position that contested statues should not be removed, can the Mayor provide assurance that the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will abide by that guidance and not recommend the removal of any statues?

  • Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm (2)

    • Reference: 2020/4068
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    Further to that same guidance from Historic England, can the Mayor confirm that he would follow it and not support the removal of the statues of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton from Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals?