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• Reference: 2024/1023
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

A previous Apprenticeship Grant for Employer Schemes led to a 21 per cent surge in apprenticeship starts during the Covid-19 crisis. With a correlation between a drop in apprenticeship starts in London and the reduction in financial incentives - and given the core Adult Education Budget is £346.3 million for 2024/25 - will you reintroduce the £3,000 apprenticeship incentive in London for under 25s?

• Reference: 2024/0161
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

With registration now open for the largest Government expansion of childcare in history, with the majority of families eligible for 15 hours of free childcare for two-year-olds from April 2024, how will you promote this amongst Londoners?

• Reference: 2024/0162
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Given that uptake of Government funded childcare is lower in London than the national average, what steps are you taking to promote support with childcare across London?

• Reference: 2024/0163
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

What steps are you taking to encourage uptake of swimming amongst children across London?

• Reference: 2024/0164
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

What steps are you taking to encourage cycling and cycling safely amongst children across London?

• Reference: 2023/4052
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In a recent CityAM article, analysis showed that there is a shortage of tradespeople of 166,000 which could impact regional GDP growth in London by £11.7bn and £98bn of growth to the UK economy. How are you using your Adult Education Budget to address the skills shortage in London?

• Reference: 2023/4053
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

What courses do you offer applicable to tradespeople, such as plumbers and electricians, and what is the uptake?

• Reference: 2023/4054
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

How often do you engage with tradespeople to help address industry challenges?

• Reference: 2023/3289
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What support are you giving to Tower Hamlets for their Free Secondary School meals programme?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Len Duvall AM: Thank you very much. God, what an insight into GLA decision-making, not just the politics but if only we could take decisions as quickly as that and be responsive. We are rightly picking up on a number of important issues with this important policy change, which will have a major difference on family household incomes. Can we just talk about the future? I know budgets are budgets and we have to go through certain procedures, but I get a feeling that people want something a bit longer-term and they will be looking to you for that. Our...