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Cost of energy crisis for the GLA group (2)

  • Reference: 2022/2889
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
What mitigating impact do you expect from the power purchase agreement tender that was issued in June 2022 against the increase in the cost of energy to the GLA group of organisations?

Cost of energy crisis for the GLA group (1)

  • Reference: 2022/2888
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
What is the expected increase in the GLA annual energy cost, across each of its functional bodies, given the increase in the cost of wholesale energy?

Undocumented sewers in London

  • Reference: 2022/2887
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
The Channel 4 programme Dispatches aired an episode entitled Britain’s Water Scandal on 29 August 2022, showing that there are undocumented sewers in London, which combine rainfall and other sewage to direct it into watercourses. What action is the GLA taking to assist water companies in identifying these sewers and stopping them polluting water in London?

COP26 actions in London

  • Reference: 2022/2886
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
We are now nearing the end of the year that Alok Sharma MP has been president of COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. What actions have you now taken in London since your attendance at the conference, and do you consider them to be enough to tackle the many problems with which climate change presents us all?

End of COP26 UK presidency

  • Reference: 2022/2885
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
We are now nearing the end of the year that Alok Sharma MP has been president of COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. What successes do you consider to have been achieved during this presidency for London and what advice would you offer to the incoming president of COP27 on the priorities for major cities?

Reducing aircraft movements to London airports

  • Reference: 2022/2884
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
The Government of the Netherlands has reduced the maximum number of aircraft movements to Schiphol airport by 12 per cent. Given concerns about climate changing emissions, do you consider that there should also be a decrease in the maximum number of aircraft movements to London airports?

Learning from Oslo’s climate budget

  • Reference: 2022/2883
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
You have said that you will introduce a climate budget from 2023-24. What lessons will you take from the approaches of other cities that already have a climate budget, such as Oslo?

Heathrow air pollution monitoring

  • Reference: 2022/2882
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Drawing on the work of the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory 2019 (LAEI), what conclusions do you currently draw about the causes of peaks in local air pollution around Heathrow, and what updates to monitoring do you consider necessary?

Procurement diversity

  • Reference: 2022/2881
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
Your Architecture Design and Urbanism Panel places five per cent of its evaluation criteria on equality, diversity and inclusion. You describe it on the GLA website as a way to: “influence the diversity of the profession through procurement.” How are you encouraging diversity in procurement across the GLA Group?

Small and micro business procurement

  • Reference: 2022/2880
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
What progress has been made to boost GLA procurement from micro and small businesses? Could you provide data on the success of micro and small businesses winning GLA contracts?
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