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• Reference: 2023/3976
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Are you aware of plans by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew) to move its herbarium collection to Thames Valley Science Park in Reading, and are you concerned at the impact this will have on the standing of RBG Kew as a world-renowned centre of science excellence in London?

• Reference: 2023/3592
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What support could you provide through your Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme to the artists in Omega Works Warehouses in Haringey, who are facing eviction due to proposed redevelopment?

• Reference: 2020/2183
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Further to MD2362, MD2363, ADD2043, ADD2194 and the new Culture at Risk Business Support Fund, could you provide data on the total funding that has been made available by the GLA for the administration of the Creative Land Trust between 2016 and 2020, and the amount that has been funded by other donors?

• Reference: 2020/2184
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

During the coronavirus crisis, arts organisations have needed emergency funding to meet their rent obligations. A major long-term problem, outlined in MD2362, has been that these organisations need to purchase workspaces or secure long-term leases, but lack the large deposits required upfront, even if they have funding to support operating costs. Will you help these organisations invest in their futures by making affordable loans and grants available for these deposits?

• Reference: 2020/2185
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

What is the total amount of money the Creative Land Trust has so far succeeded in raising, from sources external to the GLA, to purchase buildings to provide affordable workspace in perpetuity across the capital, in each financial year since 2018? Could you provide the answer in a table format?

• Reference: 2020/2186
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Why has no artist or creative beneficiary, or existing studio sector body, been included in the governance, board or staffing of the Creative Land Trust?

• Reference: 2020/2187
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

What governance or oversight arrangements are now in place for the Creative Land Trust’s use of GLA administrative and capital funding, in order to ensure it delivers its intended outcomes within the planned timeframe?

• Reference: 2020/2188
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

How does the Creative Land Trust ensure its work does not unduly affect the artist studio sector by competing with existing community and charitable providers to purchase buildings or, because of this competition, that it causes price inflation?

• Reference: 2020/2189
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

If the Creative Land Trust does not meet its objectives and performance targets envisaged in MD2362, will you consider wrapping up the project and redirecting funding to existing established bodies, which may better be able to deliver the planned 1000 studios within five years’?