• Reference: 2022/2323
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you commit to conducting a Londonwide survey to explore the reasons why Londoners buy wood burning stoves and the costs of running them to better understand how to tackle the associated effects on air quality as a result of emissions?

• Reference: 2022/2322
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will London take part in Car Free Day this year? If not, what will you do instead to mark this important day with reference to your answer to question 2022/1432?

• Reference: 2022/2321
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Are you confident that all London boroughs are currently on target to meet 50% recycling rate by 2025?

• Reference: 2022/2320
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

According to Claddag, a group representing disabled and older leaseholders who are trapped in unsafe homes, the government Equality Impact Assessments (EIA) for both the Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan consultation and the Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing consultation were not fit for purpose. Will you commit to doing your own EIA to understand the impact on Londoners with protected characteristics?

• Reference: 2022/2319
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you do a more detailed study on disabled Londoners being sensitively described for data purposes based not just on mobility issues but sensory needs, learning difficulties, and mental health issues?

• Reference: 2022/2318
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you support the idea of housing providers offering alternative accommodation while lifts are being fixed for London’s disabled residents?

• Reference: 2022/2317
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

The Government states that fire wardens would need to be employed 24/7 at huge costs to tenants and leaseholders for PEEPs to be able to be put in place, so that a ‘competent’ person is always on hand. This is contradictory when there are 4 million unpaid carers in the UK who don’t have a ‘competency’ test. The National Fire Chiefs Council in their draft guidance mention the use of ‘buddies,’ known by the disabled person, such as friends, neighbours, which surely, where possible is a more practical and creative way of implementing PEEPs? What are your thoughts on this...

• Reference: 2022/2316
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you publish the letters you have written to leaseholders and housing associations about Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans?

• Reference: 2022/2315
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you look at the enforcement measures City Hall and the LFB can take against landlords who are not implementing Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans?

• Reference: 2022/2314
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

We know that 83% of consultation respondents to the Government’s Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEPs) Consultation were supportive of PEEPs, yet Government seemingly ignored this view and has decided that mandating PEEPs is not proportionate, practical, or safe. In the absence of a Government commitment on this will you ensure all disabled Londoners, in spite of building height, have PEEPs in place?