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• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. My question is for Enver Solomon. I met recently with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in preparation for this plenary. They told me about the experience of a woman who claimed asylum in the UK, was 33 weeks pregnant and living in asylum accommodation near Gatwick. She was being given food that was unsuitable during pregnancy. She complained about the food to the hotel and medical practitioners from her hospital also spoke to hotel managers saying that the food was unsuitable for her and her baby, but no...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Caroline Russell AM: Lyn, last time we spoke at the Budget and Performance Committee meeting before Christmas [2022], we established that the LLDC heat network runs on gas. It cannot meet the Mayor’s climate targets and it opens residents up to catastrophic energy bills. We discussed that you somehow have to get rid of all the gas and get heat pumps in to shift all that power to low carbon. I was very glad to hear you tell Assembly Member Cooper just now that Equans has started on the installation of air-source heat pumps. What analysis was done to rule...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Caroline Russell AM: Commissioner, Crossrail has launched recently. I think we can all agree it is a great railway and it is great that it is fully accessible in the central section, but it should also be accessible to people who need to use a loo. Commissioner, when will you start retrofitting loos into all stations without toilets on the Elizabeth line?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 04 March 2021

Caroline Russell AM: My questions are for the Deputy Mayor for Culture Justine Simons and are specifically about issues facing Londoners in creative industries, and the part the culture sector may play in the recovery process. At Tuesday’s Economy Committee meeting [2 March 2021], you talked about the scale of the impact the pandemic has had on London’s creative workers. You highlighted the risk that 150,000 people in the arts may lose their jobs and that £16 billion may be lost from an industry which, before COVID, was worth £58 billion a year to London’s economy. Can you tell me...

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Martin, for that really clear description of what is happening in our hospitals and to the people working in those hospitals. I want to talk about the vaccination of frontline workers. I do realise that vaccination rollout is in early stages and that we will not know for a few months whether vaccination has any effect on reducing transmission, but yesterday the Government released guidance that said phase two of vaccination may include targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services. This week we...

• Reference: 2020/4555
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

The Home Office has used specially chartered flights to deport rejected refugees and migrants en masse for 12 years now. A constituent of mine wants Government to end this method of deportation for foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children. Do you share her concerns that mass deportation flights are a violation of basic human rights?

• Reference: 2020/4556
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Can you reassure my constituents that the increased use of e-scooters will enable pedestrians to use pavements safely? We must ensure greener forms of transport are safe for all concerned via additional regulation and by ensuring there is not a law enforcement deficit.

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Florence Eshalomi AM MP: Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that answer, and again it just highlights the fact that we do need to look at how we help families. Mr Mayor, you will remember last year we went to the Peckham Pantry in Southwark to see the good work of different organisations who were effectively supporting people who were in work but having to rely on food banks. Now, just yesterday the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that for the first time they are going to be feeding children in the UK, including £25,000 going to...

• Reference: 2020/4483
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Why are in-work Londoners visiting Foodbanks in ever greater numbers?

• Reference: 2020/3985
• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Will London be able to deliver a second ‘Everyone In’ programme to ensure those Londoners sleeping rough are able to be safe and secure over this current and future lockdowns and over the winter months?