• Reference: 2022/0952
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What representations have you made to the Government on behalf of Londoners regarding calls to waive visas for Ukrainian refugees amidst the Ukraine-Russia conflict?

• Reference: 2022/0951
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What current plans do you have to mark Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month this coming June?

• Reference: 2022/0950
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Will you consider creating a dedicated GLA-funded training programme for local authorities to help educate councillors and staff on how to stamp out racist hate speech directed at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities?

• Reference: 2022/0949
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

What specific actions have you taken to raise awareness and make racist hate speech directed at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities socially unacceptable in London?

• Reference: 2022/0948
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Please provide an update on the LFB’s flooding outreach work and how they are working with businesses and residents in the capital most at risk from flooding.

• Reference: 2022/0947
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Given the poor voluntary uptake of mental health awareness training in the LFB will you consider working with the LFB to make such training mandatory?

• Reference: 2022/0946
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Fire doors play a key role in preventing and slowing the spread of fire, yet often people inadvertently reduce the effectiveness of fire doors through certain alterations. Will you work with the LFB, boroughs and housing associations to promote good practice in relation to fire doors for residents?

• Reference: 2022/0945
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Will you consider updating your London Plan so that there is a requirement for the LFB to be a consultee on all complex building applications?

• Reference: 2022/0944
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Will you look at working with the LFB and boroughs to introduce some simple training for councillors so that they can more effectively support residents in raising issues when joining fire risk assessments in their ward?

• Reference: 2022/0943
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 24 March 2022

Although I welcome your recent guidance for landlords on obtaining EWS1 assessments, it fails to address the national shortage of building surveyors, which is having a significant impact on obtaining EWS1 forms here in London. We know that as of November 2021 Government had only funded an extra 50 assessors out of a planned 2,000. What more is City Hall doing to get building surveyors trained here in London so that EWS1 forms can be issued more quickly?