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  • Budget 2023/24 (1)

    • Reference: 2022/2814
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    Functional bodies have to produce budget submissions for 2023-24 in line with your “core central scenario”. This scenario envisages a 4.4% equivalent funding increase compared to 2022-23, after one-off items have been removed. This is far below the current rate of inflation. How will you reconcile budget submissions with potential inflation affecting costs during the year?

  • Budget 2023/24 (2)

    • Reference: 2022/2815
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    What mitigations do you plan during the budget-setting process for 2023-24 against the potential effects of inflation, given that it is relatively high and unstable?

  • Budget 2023/24 (3)

    • Reference: 2022/2816
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    Your core central scenario for budget submissions for 2023-24 envisages a 2.5% increase in business rates. What is the rationale behind this projection, and on what factors do you base this expectation regarding business activity?

  • Budget 2023/24 (4)

    • Reference: 2022/2817
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    What mitigations will you put in place in the budget for 2023-24 against financial uncertainties, such as inflation, or potentially lower than expected business rate returns or public transport fare receipts?

  • Litter Free Zone

    • Reference: 2022/2291
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2022
    Will you carry out an assessment into the cost of launching a Litter Free Zone Campaign for businesses and communities in London, similar to the one in Wales https://keepwalestidy.cymru/caru-cymru/litter-free-zones ?

  • Procuring a New Organisation to Run Pride in London

    • Reference: 2022/2307
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2022
    How will you ensure the process for selecting a new organisation to run Pride in London will be as transparent as possible and what steps are you taking to ensure the event is inclusive given previous criticisms that have been widely made?

  • Ocean Diva (2)

    • Reference: 2022/1763
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 23 June 2022
    Can you confirm whether London and Partners or the GLA have in any way promoted the Ocean Diva?

  • London Stadium North Stand Project

    • Reference: 2022/1789
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 23 June 2022
    What was the overall cost to London Legacy Development Corporation of the North Stand project in the London Stadium?

  • Gas leak incident at the London Aquatics Centre

    • Reference: 2022/1378
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 19 May 2022
    Can you confirm if the London Legacy Development Corporation is undertaking an investigation into the chlorine gas leak at the London Aquatics Centre on 23 March, to ensure any lessons are learnt and will you ensure LLDC publishes any investigation and its findings in full?

  • Mayor’s Green Bond to support Net Zero (1)

    • Reference: 2022/1388
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 19 May 2022
    In your budget for 2022-23, you set out your intention for the GLA to sell a £500m ‘Green Bond’, the revenue from which will be used for Net Zero projects in the capital, primarily the decarbonisation of buildings. The sale and management of the bond would be facilitated by £86m from your budget. What has prompted this strategic shift to debt funding? The GLA has only borrowed in this way twice before.