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• Reference: 2022/2523
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) reports problematic access to finance for ethnic minority-led businesses, an aversion to applying for funding and less likelihood of funding for those who apply. What can you do to support more robust data gathering and research on ethnic minority-led businesses as well as engagement between government, the business community and people from ethnic minority backgrounds?

• Reference: 2022/2077
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

What progress are you making to review the London Weighting paid to workers in London?

• Reference: 2022/2081
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

A constituent is concerned that low income and some disabled people are disproportionately affected by the charge. Can you outline the steps taken to help Blue Badge holders? Would you consider a means tested exemption or grants for low-income families?

• Reference: 2022/2082
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

A man has been arrested on suspicion of illegal money lending and money laundering offences, following raids by the England Illegal Money Lending Team and the Metropolitan Police Service in Ealing. Ealing Council says that help is available for people with money or debt problems from the National Debt Line, Step Change, Debt Advice Network and Money Advice service. Can the Mayor help get the word out there about these sources of advice, so that people do not resort to loan sharks?

• Reference: 2022/1135
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Do you think that the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper has too much of a focus on geographical inequalities, when it should also address structural and ethnic inequalities, for the benefit of London, as your Health Inequalities Strategy Implementation Plan does?

• Reference: 2022/0440
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

You supported Small Business Saturday on 4th December. Last year, an estimated £1.1 billion was spent with small businesses across the UK on Small Business Saturday. How important is Small Business Saturday in supporting London’s high streets and small businesses?

• Reference: 2021/5130
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

How are you working with Thrive LDN to ensure that the quarter of a million Wellbeing Ambassadors you plan to recruit are from diverse backgrounds and represent LGBTQ+ and disabled communities?

• Reference: 2021/4707
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Through your Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, will you consider funding a memorial to the nurses and healthcare workers who came to support London’s NHS from the Windrush Generation?

• Reference: 2021/4711
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Will you use your platform to encourage London Living Wage employers to also provide weekly Sick Pay to their staff at the rate of £10.85 p/h?

• Reference: 2021/3248
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

The Government has indicated they may want to make working from home “normal” going forward. We know that working from home has proved very beneficial for some individuals, and incredibly difficult for others. How will the Mayor work with businesses in London – potentially though the Good Work Standard - to help find a way forward which centres the mental health of workers, ensuring that working from home can remain an option for many people, whilst not creating a culture where businesses functionally force those who do not want to to work from home to cut down on costs?