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• Reference: 2013/4741
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Can you update me on where the sites are that you are providing for new Free Schools to be built on?

• Reference: 2013/4104
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

In your answer to Question 2013/3604, you did not say whether or not the event you held this year to recognise Black History Month will now be an annual occasion. Without vagueness in your answer this time, please, do you plan to host an annual event for the remainder of your Mayoralty that explicitly and specifically celebrates Black History Month?

• Reference: 2013/3927
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Given your recent commitment to provide 12 sites for Free Schools, do you think it’s right that community schools in London graded as Good with Outstanding features should be knocked down in order to build Free Schools?

• Reference: 2013/3925
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Given your announcement that you would set aside land for 12 Free Schools, does the Mayor think that the government should hand back responsibility for opening new schools to local authorities to tackle the primary school places crisis rather than trying to tackle the problem centrally?

• Reference: 2013/3589
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

If classes in Free Schools that you have committed to set aside land for exceed more than 30 pupils, will this strengthen or weaken education standards?

• Reference: 2013/3590
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Would you be happy for unqualified teachers to teach in the in Free Schools that you have committed to set aside land for?

• Reference: 2013/3591
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Between May 2010 and January 2013, 126 SureStart Children's Centres closed in London. Do you have any Mayoral plans to deal with the consequences of these closures?

• Reference: 2013/3604
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

I welcome the Mayor's collaborative work he's doing with Tim Campbell and it's great news that this year the Mayor will be celebrating Black History Month. Can the Mayor confirm that this will now be an annual event for the remainder of his Mayoralty?

• Reference: 2013/2994
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Firstly, I would like to thank you for raising the profile of apprenticeships in your Vision document. Secondly, I would like to know what action you have you taken to look at my proposal to consider a creation of a structured pan-London apprenticeship supported by a dedicated team of staff with its own department?

• Reference: 2013/0482
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2013

Can the Mayor detail what initiatives are being launched to connect young people not currently in education, training or apprenticeships to the growing creative economy in the city fringe?