• Reference: 2022/3653
• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

How much of the Mayor’s Healthy Streets budget was spent last year on capital infrastructure, and how much was spent on ‘revenue’ aspects such as accessibility audits, community consultation and engagement activities, cycle training, borough staff costs and support towards community transport?

• Reference: 2022/3651
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Will you join me in thanking Councillors and council staff across Lambeth and Southwark for their work throughout the recent period of national mourning and their role in ensuring the queue for the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II, which was mainly in the two boroughs, was safe and secure? As you will know, due to pressures to maintain street cleanliness, many parks and street cleaners in Southwark and parts of Lambeth worked an extra 24 hours during Queen Elizabeth’s lying-in-state period.

• Reference: 2022/3650
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

As you know, active travel schemes are courageous plans to transform our streets work to make them healthier, safer, and more accessible. What steps will you take to further encourage Car Free travel throughout Lambeth, Southwark, and wider London? Will you consider encouraging commuters to commit to Car Free travel once a week throughout London?

• Reference: 2022/3649
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

What support can you provide to charity organisations in Lambeth and Southwark such as Age UK Lambeth who are delivering important schemes such as the Zooming Together initiative?

• Reference: 2022/3648
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

How many businesses do you anticipate supporting with your £1.2m fund to support creative workspaces and cultural infrastructure to become more sustainable in Creative Enterprise Zones?

• Reference: 2022/3647
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

What response have you received from the Government to your calls to provide free school meals to all primary school children?

• Reference: 2022/3646
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

How are you supporting London Challenge Poverty Week on 17-23 October 2022?

• Reference: 2022/3645
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

Does the Government’s announcement of a cap to businesses’ energy and gas costs go far enough to support organisations in London this winter?

• Reference: 2022/3644
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

It has been reported that the cost of travel is the biggest factor deterring staff from returning to their central London workplace, despite increased costs to working from home. Business leaders have called for a “creative and flexible approach”, with more attractive off-peak prices. The Government have assumed a four per cent hike in Tube and bus fares in March next year as part of the TfL funding settlement. How can you support Londoners and businesses who are concerned about this, and how will this impact on London’s recovery?

• Reference: 2022/3643
• Question by: Marina Ahmad
• Meeting date: 13 October 2022

How are you celebrating Black History Month this year, and how are you supporting Londoners, businesses and public institutions to commemorate Black History Month?