• Reference: 2023/3155
• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How many grants have been made from this fund to date? Please provide a breakdown since the funds began, showing the size of grant and date of grant award.

• Reference: 2023/3154
• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Please provide a borough-by-borough breakdown of the number of buildings operating waking watches in London. Please also breakdown the numbers for buildings over 18m and under 18m in each borough.

• Reference: 2023/3153
• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

The London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) response time to primary fires in London is quicker than other metropolitan and urban areas in England, including Greater Manchester, Merseyside and the West Midlands. How are the LFB achieving this and what are they going to do in the future to continue to bear down on response times?

• Reference: 2023/3152
• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How is Transport for London (TfL) ensuring that London’s streets can be used by Londoners to connect and socialise, to make healthy and safe journeys, to support a thriving local economy, and to protect our natural world?

• Reference: 2023/3151
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Residents of Lambeth are upset about the intrusive effects of noise pollution from modified motorbikes. You advised approximately 12 months ago that Transport for London (TfL) had no immediate plans to implement acoustic cameras but was awaiting the outcome of a Department for Transport trial of such cameras across the UK [Ref 2022/3192]. What is TfL’s current position on acoustic cameras and when will it take advantage of this new technology to ease noise pollution on busy TfL roads in Lambeth?

• Reference: 2023/3150
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How many retail closures have there been in London each year since 2019? Can you break this down by London borough?

• Reference: 2023/3149
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

I welcome your announcement that seven businesses have been recently awarded up to £50,000 each to help communities affected by the cost-of-living crisis. When do you expect for Londoners to be able to access these new resources?

• Reference: 2023/3148
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What are you doing to support London Challenge Poverty Week this year, which is 16-22 October 2023?

• Reference: 2023/3147
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the Universal Credit uplift led to a sharp fall in the number of households living in absolute poverty during the 18 months it was in force. The Institute for Fiscal Studies also found that the cost of living payments scheme would have been better spent on raising value of benefits. What conversations have you had with the Government on behalf of Londoners regarding an increase to the level of Universal Credit?

• Reference: 2023/3146
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Child Poverty Action Group have found that going to school in the UK costs families of primary school children at least £864.87 a year, or £18.69 a week before childcare costs are accounted for. For families of secondary school children, this increases to £1,755.97 a year, £39.01 a week. How can parents in London be best supported with these additional costs at the start of this school year during the continuing cost of living crisis?