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• Reference: 2021/1131
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

The Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee’s report ‘Cladding crisis and its impact on Londoners’ recommended you provide a hub for London leaseholders and residents affected by cladding and fire safety issues to access legal advice and mental health support. In your response you said that the Homes for Londoners Board has called on the Government to review the role and remit of LEASE, that exists to support leaseholders with fire safety issues, and that you will continue to support leaseholders and residents impacted by the building safety crisis and lobby Government for essential change. Does this include the provision...

• Reference: 2021/1132
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Please provide a borough-by-borough breakdown of the number of buildings operating waking watches in London. Please also breakdown the numbers for buildings over 18m and under 18m in each borough.

• Reference: 2021/1133
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Manchester Cladiators held a ‘Cladding Question Time’ for leaseholders with invited panellists including the Minister for Building Safety. Will you commit to organising a similar cladding question time for the thousands of London leaseholders caught up in the cladding scandal in order to bring their concerns directly to Government?

• Reference: 2021/1134
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

As the FBU reports on twitter : “At the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, The manufacturers of Grenfell's flammable insulation, Kingspan, admitted to wrongly using a failed fire test to claim their products were safe. In 2013, 'desktop assessments' were introduced to prove products were safe to be installed on high-rise properties. But these ‘desktop assessments’ aren’t proper tests. They are only assessments that determine how safe a cladding system is *if* tested. Kingspan went onto use an insulation system that had **FAILED** a fire test to produce **29** of these ‘desktop assessments’. The failed fire test was carried out by the...

• Reference: 2021/1135
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Does there need to be a review into all decisions made by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) into which materials are safe or not given the scandal over approval of flammable insulation? Do you have faith in the approvals granted by the BRE, and if not do you believe it is time to re-establish a public regulator?

• Reference: 2021/1136
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

What are your views about the utility of and introduction of ‘vaccine passports’?

• Reference: 2021/1026
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

A new report from the Department for Education shows that learning losses in schools that have many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were around 50% higher than those schools with very few pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. How worried are you about this generation of disadvantaged Londoners being left behind?

• Reference: 2021/1101
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

Do you agree that evidence at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 is a damning indictment of privatisation, de-regulation and the pursuit of profit over public safety?

• Reference: 2021/1027
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

London’s youth unemployment has reached 22%. This is incredibly worrying. What are you doing to reduce this?

• Reference: 2021/1028
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

London’s youth unemployment has reached 22%. This is incredibly worrying. What does London need from government to reduce this urgently?