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• Reference: 2024/1195
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

How will your January 2024 report, Properties vulnerable to heat impacts in London: Prioritisation for adaptation interventions, commissioned by the GLA from Arup, inform your initiatives to: a) increase the green coverage of London, and b) retrofit homes and public buildings?

• Reference: 2024/1196
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The Government has managed to deliver greater carbon savings than planned in their third five-year carbon budget, for 2018 to 2022 inclusive. Is London on track or behind your published pathways to reach your 2030 net zero goal?

• Reference: 2024/1201
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

On 25 January 2024 the London Assembly unanimously passed my budget related motion, calling on you to prioritise addressing the gaps in training workers in the skills needed for the retrofitting industry and to explore all potential sources of income that can be put towards retrofit programmes, including calling on the Government to provide consistent, multi-year funding without restrictive conditions. Could you update me as to when you will respond to this motion?

• Reference: 2024/1202
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

I support your decision to install air filters in 200 schools with a view to expanding this programme in future. What evidence will you record from these installations and will you be collecting data to show improved attendance, reductions in infectious disease spread and improved health outcomes for pupils and staff with health conditions?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Morning Chair. Morning, Mayor. I hesitate to use these words. Do you regret that just three per cent of the homes from your current Affordable Homes Programme (AHP), a £4 billion programme, have been started when we are over halfway through the programme?

• Reference: 2024/1193
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Are you on track to be the ‘greenest Mayor ever’?

• Reference: 2024/0817
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Following the government grant of £53m to Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) from the Brownfield Infrastructure and Land Fund, how many homes do you expect to deliver with this money? When will these new homes be started and completed?

• Reference: 2024/0818
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

How many homes do you expect to start in the current financial year from the £4bn 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme?

• Reference: 2024/0541
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Market Village in the Stratford Centre has been forced to close due to the site’s landlord going into administration. How are you working with Newham Council to: a) support the businesses affected, and b) protect this valuable cultural space from permanent closure?

• Reference: 2024/0542
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4801, in which you said, “most of [the London Finance Commission’s] longstanding recommendations remain valid today.” Could you provide information from the last 12 months of: a) when you met Government officials to lobby for at least one of the recommendations made in the report, and b) which recommendation(s) you lobbied for in each instance?