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• Reference: 2019/14561
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 July 2019

This month, London South Bank University announced it would be starting the first degree-level apprenticeships in Chartered Town Planning from September. Given the shortage of planning expertise in the public sector, this is a great initiative, and would you consider using your Adult Education Budget responsibilities to support apprentice planners through the GLA and London Boroughs?

• Reference: 2015/0261
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Do you agree with the House of Commons' Environmental Audit Committee's report calling for new planning policies to prevent schools, hospitals, and care homes from being built in air pollution hot spots?

• Reference: 2015/0262
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

The House of Commons' Environmental Audit Committee's latest Air Quality Report calls for new planning policies to prevent schools, hospitals, and care homes from being built in air pollution hot spots. What existing London Plan policy and supplementary planning guidance discourages building these types of properties in pollution hot spots?

• Reference: 2015/0263
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

The House of Commons' Environmental Audit Committee's latest Air Quality Report calls for new planning policies to prevent schools, hospitals, and care homes from being built in air pollution hot spots. Do you think there is a need for a new London Plan policy or supplementary planning guidance to address this concern?

• Reference: 2014/2703
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

What are you doing as Mayor to ensure that state-funded faith schools in London are non-discriminatory in their admissions policy?

• Reference: 2013/3414
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Are you concerned that the growth of free schools will give religious groups access to public funds, to enable them to create school environments which endorse sexist attitudes and discrimination against homosexuals? Will your criteria for supporting free schools rule out those which clearly discriminate in this way?

• Reference: 2013/1901
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Thank you for your answer to question 4033/2012 where you promised that the pan London analysis of school places data, identifying where there will be a need for school places in future years, would be available in early 2013. Can you please publish a copy?

• Reference: 2013/0126
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Will you arrange for either yourself or your Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, Munira Mirza, to meet with the organisation ALLFIE to look at how disabled people can have direct opportunities to influence the GLA's education plans?

• Reference: 2013/0127
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

You have previously spoken out on the issue of overseas students coming to study and work in London. Will you write to the Government urging them to lift onerous restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian students working while studying in the UK?

• Reference: 2013/0128
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Are you concerned that Brunel University in Uxbridge allowed a cleric who supports the killing of gay people, Abu Usamah, to attend a student event? While we must rightly uphold the principle of free speech do you, like me, draw the line at incitement to murder and violence?