• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, panel. The Mayor has made no secret of his desire for another Olympic Games and he used the phrasing, it will be “the greenest Games ever” because we already have the kit. Do we already have the kit though? As we know, the Stadium is locked in a contract, a 99-year deal or something along those lines. So do we actually have the kit? Let me start with the Deputy Mayor and then I will come to Lyn.

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My first question is also to the Deputy Mayor. In terms of going for the Games in the first place, if [Sir] Peter Hendy had not quoted Ken Livingstone , I would have done because it really is crucial that we did not go for it on the point of sport; we did it because development of the East End was the main point. That quote from Ken Livingstone ends with, “Build the housing”. Therefore I want to ask about housing and particularly overcrowding. Within the convergence framework that resulted, there were...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Deputy Mayor, because I used my earlier time allocation to put forward the views of New City College, who are based all over London and do some fantastic work, I have a couple of supplementary questions. One of the things that the Mayor has long called for is the ability for London to have an occupation shortages list. Have you had conversations with the Government about this? Where are the talks? Can you remind us how this would assist London’s skills gap? This is about the occupation shortages list.

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. I just want to return to this theme of ethnicity. Is ethnicity a good way to decide how you spend your resource?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning or, rather, good afternoon, Deputy Mayor. You have a third of a billion pounds to spend a year. That is an awful lot of money. From what you said this morning I am not really sure if there is the step change in London that I would have thought for something you have full control on. The Mayor’s inability to turn up today illustrates. Is he actually interested in this hugely important area of public policy?

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. Jules, I just want to pick up on some of the discussion we were having earlier around health and that sector. My understanding is that health public services and care enrolments have been increasing year on year but, given the high vacancy rates in the sector, do you track how many people who achieve qualifications then go on to actually get jobs in that sector?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Susan Hall AM: Hello, both. I do not suppose you will like these questions, anyway, but here we go. We are all agreed that on one of your briefing papers, females, BAME people and disadvantaged Londoners were going to be targeted by this AEB. White pupils on free school meals aged between 11 and 16 getting a grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSE is 25%, whereas the same statistic is 38.7% for Black pupils, 45.2% for Asian pupils and 79.6% for Chinese pupils. Therefore, as always, these white pupils on free school meals seem to be falling...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Jules and Michelle. My questioning was going to be mainly around the targeting of the AEB and so I was quite pleased that in the questions from Assembly Member Sheikh you have already recognised the Mayor and his programme is failing to adequately support disabled Londoners and so we do not need to go back too deeply into that.

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Anne Clarke AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to you both. It is good to see you again following yesterday’s Economy [Committee] meeting. Michelle, you spoke earlier about how the numbers of learners post-COVID has changed. I am just wondering what assessment the GLA has done of the changes to adult education itself post-COVID and how this has impacted on the GLA’s plans for the AEB.

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 08 September 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning to Jules and Michelle. It is good to see you again. I certainly enjoyed hearing from you yesterday [7 March 2022] at our Economy Committee and from the whole panel. It is really clear that adult education has a huge and long-lasting effect on Londoners’ ability to reach their full potential. I just wanted to speak to how we ensure that we reach all Londoners equally and make sure all groups in our society are represented and, to that end, I wanted to ask what progress the AEB made in tackling...