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• 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?

• Reference: 2024/0552
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

When is the current contract with the company operating the GLA catering in City Hall up for renewal?

• Reference: 2023/4801
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The last report of the London Finance Commission (LFC) was published in 2017. What plans do you have to reconvene the LFC to provide updated recommendations to Government?

• Reference: 2023/4802
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

The 2017 London Finance Commission report, Devolution: A Capital Idea, made 25 recommendations to Government. In your current term, what progress have you made lobbying the Government on each of the recommendations grouped under Tax and Revenues (recommendations 2-7), and Land Value Capture (recommendations 9-10)?

• Reference: 2023/4438
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

You have made an announcement that the GLA has attained a Living Hours accreditation. Does this accreditation cover just the GLA or the whole GLA group including functional bodies, and are contractors also included?

• Reference: 2023/3542
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

In response to the Fair Tax motion moved unanimously by the London Assembly on 16 March 2023, you said: “my officers will carry out further research into the Fair Tax Declaration.” Are you content with the research of your officers, and will you commit to the key principles of the Fair Tax Declaration, as called for in the motion?

• Reference: 2023/3546
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

In your answer to my question 2023/3079, you said: “the Green Finance Fund will initially be financed with (as opposed to funded by) GLA’s working capital and reserve cash balances that it holds from time to time.” What specific cash reserves will the Green Finance Fund be financed with?

• Reference: 2023/3561
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Could you provide the rationale and financial implications of the decision to contract Corporate Travel Management (CTM) as the GLA’s travel booking provider, and are you content with this relationship given the company’s £1.6 billion contract to provide the Home Office with asylum accommodation ships?

• Reference: 2023/3086
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

The minutes of the London Recovery Board and London Partnership Board meeting on 16 March 2023 stated that a retrofit sub-group would be established. Could you tell me: a) if this group has been established, b) who will be sitting on the group, and c) the terms of reference for the group?

• Reference: 2023/3088
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Will the minutes of meetings of the London Partnership Board retrofit sub-group be published?