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• Reference: 2024/1141
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Research suggests that people from Black communities are at a higher risk of developing a mental health problem in adulthood, whilst being less likely to receive support for their mental health. How are your policies boosting mental well-being in black communities across Enfield and Haringey?

• Reference: 2022/2483
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Following the recent news that poliovirus has been detected in London’s sewage, how is the GLA supporting Health Service efforts to encourage Londoners to ensure they are up to date with polio vaccines?

• Reference: 2022/2055
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Do you support the Right to Food campaign and what can you do to promote this initiative to London Boroughs?

• Reference: 2022/0425
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 January 2022

How can you support the take up of the COVID-19 vaccination across London, in all communities and age groups?

• Reference: 2021/4686
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 November 2021

Can you please list the COVID revenue grant funding from the Government to each London Council to date (excluding business grants)?

• Question by: Navin Shah and David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Navin Shah AM (Chair): Thank you very much. Minister Zahawi, I know this morning already you had a very busy schedule. I have heard you on Leading Britain's Conversation (LBC), we have seen you on Sky [Network] Television (TV) and you are here this morning with us. I cannot thank you enough. May I just on behalf of the Assembly if you can spare another minute, ask you a question of reassurance that we are seeking on behalf of Londoners? That is: is London now receiving its fair share of COVID‑19 vaccinations and can we be confident that it will...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

David Kurten AM: I would like to ask, yes, Martin Machray if I could, back to the people who were here before. You refer to the vaccine or the injections that people are being given from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna as vaccines. However, the substances from Pfizer and Moderna are not vaccines, as people understand vaccines. They are experimental Messenger RNA (mRNA) gene technologies. Why do you continue to refer to those two substances and injections as vaccines?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Joanne McCartney AM : My first question is to Martin Machray. We have heard earlier that some Londoners are hesitant to get the vaccine and work is being carried out to build their trust and confidence, but are records being kept consistently across all of London’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of those who have declined the vaccine, and is there capacity in the system in a few months’ time to contact those people again whose confidence may have risen?

• Reference: 2021/0044
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

Which data sources do you use to inform your statements on Covid-19?

• Reference: 2021/0055
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 January 2021

In September 2020, you told the Assembly that you were seeking clarity from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on what the abolition of Public Health England, and creation of the National Institute for Health Protection, would mean for London. Have you received a response from Government to your concerns on this issue?