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• Reference: 2023/4578
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Do you think there is a case for a GCSE in Healthcare covering a syllabus on healthy lives, health promotion and self-care?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. God, what an insight into GLA decision-making, not just the politics but if only we could take decisions as quickly as that and be responsive. We are rightly picking up on a number of important issues with this important policy change, which will have a major difference on family household incomes. Can we just talk about the future? I know budgets are budgets and we have to go through certain procedures, but I get a feeling that people want something a bit longer-term and they will be looking to you for that. Our...

• Reference: 2022/5136
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Who is leading the Propel Fund and where is funding held?

• Reference: 2022/5137
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

Please provide a breakdown of funding allocated to Propel by all organisations.

• Reference: 2022/5138
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

How much funding does Propel anticipate generating over the next 5 years? Please provide a year-by-year breakdown.

• Reference: 2022/5139
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

What are the key performance indicators for the fund and how will the GLA ensure it provides good value for money?

• Reference: 2022/5140
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2022

How will the projects funded through Propel be different to those funded through Young Londoners fund? What makes Propel distinct?

• Reference: 2022/3372
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Hillingdon Council is closing its three early years centres in December. It claims that financial pressures caused by rising inflation have forced it to make efficiencies. While you do not have ultimate responsibility for childcare, given your work on early years, do you share my concern that the closure of the centres will place many families in financial hardship, as private providers are very expensive, and what support can you provide families facing high childcare costs?

• Reference: 2022/1551
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

There is significant variation in the number of children being offered their first preference for primary school. Although the average from all of London is 87.9%, this ranges widely from 94% to 66% by borough. Given your previous comments on the importance of providing a good school place for every child in London, would you please outline what it is that makes one borough more successful at awarding a first-choice primary school than another?

• Reference: 2022/1555
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Data that I obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request showed that the Government has only provided 141 London schools with air filters as part of their national scheme. Do you agree that this scheme should now be expanded and relaunched to ensure more London schools can tackle poor air quality and the transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses in the classroom?