• 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?

• Reference: 2023/1078
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

What support and reassurance have you given Bangladeshi Ahmadis in London following the attacks on members of the Ahmadi community in the Panchagarh district of Bangladesh on 3 March 2023, which included the murders of Arifur Rahman and Jahid Hasan?