• Reference: 2023/1088
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Food banks report unprecedented demand, with some spending thousands of pounds each month to meet this demand. What safety net is there for food banks to ensure they are able to meet the demands caused by the difference between what Londoners need for a basic existence and what they actually receive?

• Reference: 2023/1087
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Do you think the government has an understanding of the support needed for Londoners needed to exist on the basics?

• Reference: 2023/1086
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

The calculation for the basic existence does not include housing, with Spare Room estimating that average London rents are £215 a week. This puts Londoners in need of £415 a week in order to live on the basics. Do you expect significant change to London’s Living Wage this year in order to help address this?

• Reference: 2023/1085
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell Trust estimate that the weekly cost of a basic existence would be £120 for a single adult and £200 for a couple. However, even after the 10.1 per cent benefits uprating, the universal credit standard allowance will be £85 for a single adult and £134 a week for a couple. Following the announcement of free school meals for Key Stage 2 pupils at London’s schools and academies, what conversations have you had with either government or local government beyond London about how this could be extended further to support struggling families?

• Reference: 2023/1084
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Please provide a breakdown of learners by the hub they have received training from, by year.

• Reference: 2023/1083
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

How many learners have undertaken education and training via the Mayor’s Academy Programme? Can you break this down by year.

• Reference: 2023/1082
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

By what date should we expect the first set of data from the London Learner Survey, set to be released this spring?

• Reference: 2023/1081
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Does the Chancellor’s Spring Budget do enough to support Londoners with the continuing cost of living crisis?

• Reference: 2023/1080
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

At the beginning of the month, you announced you have frozen funding to three social housing providers in London in a crackdown on poor-performing landlords in the capital. Will you consider extending these measures to Housing Associations that have not tackled fire safety issues in their stock?

• Reference: 2023/1079
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

At the beginning of the month, you announced you have frozen funding to three social housing providers in London in a crackdown on poor-performing landlords in the capital. What oversight mechanism will you put in place to monitor the Housing Associations involved to bring their services back to decent standards?