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Fire Safety Concerns with Building Applications

  • Reference: 2022/0550
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
Last year LFB Assistant Commissioner, Paul Jennings, stated that the LFB raised concerns with approximately 60% of planning applications they were passed for review. How are you working with developers in London to ensure that all properties built in the capital meet the highest fire safety standards and that all elements of your London Plan relating to fire safety are adhered to?

E-scooters on the GLA Estate

  • Reference: 2022/0549
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
Parliament has recently banned e-scooters on the Parliamentary estate. Will you consider a similar ban on e-scooters on the GLA estate given the fire risk they pose?

Unsafe Homes Listed on the Homes for Londoners Portal

  • Reference: 2022/0548
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
You assured me in August 2021 that steps were being taken to ensure no properties with fire safety defects would be listed on the Homes for Londoners portal again, yet at least one property has recently appeared that has defects with its cladding system. Please outline what changes were made to the way properties were listed when I originally raised concerns in July 2021, and what further steps will now be taken to further safeguard against the listing of dangerous properties?

Action Against Developers Failing to Support those Caught up in the Building Safety Crisis

  • Reference: 2022/0547
  • Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
The Secretary of State for the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) stated in a recent letter to developers that he would consider “restricting access to government funding and future procurements” if they did not make the necessary financial contribution and undertake remediation work on their existing stock. Will you take a similar line with developers you are working with through your Affordable Homes Programme, and if not, why not?

Support for London’s Rough Sleepers

  • Reference: 2022/0546
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
As well as lobbying the Government for more funding to support work with rough sleepers, what work are you undertaking to try and identify more funding from within your existing budgets to support and assist rough sleepers in the capital?

City Hall LGBTQ+ Forum

  • Reference: 2022/0545
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
Will you and Deputy Mayor for Social Cohesion and Communities set up a regular London-wide engagement forum with key LGBTQ+ groups and organisations to ensure MOPAC, and City Hall more widely, are better in tune with issues and concerns in the community?

London Fashion Week Grant Agreement

  • Reference: 2022/0544
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
Will you publish a copy of the latest grant agreement between the GLA and the British Fashion Council (which runs London Fashion Week)? Does this agreement contain clauses in relation to the health and diversity of models?

Misuse of Corporate Credit Cards in the Met (2)

  • Reference: 2022/0543
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
How much money has been spent through the misuse of corporate credit cards by Met officers and staff over the last five years?

Misuse of Corporate Credit Cards in the Met (1)

  • Reference: 2022/0542
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
How many Met employees have faced misconduct proceedings in the last five years due to the misuse of corporate credit cards? Please break this information down by i) month, ii) whether staff or officer (including rank), and iii) the outcome/sanction from the misconduct proceedings.

Social Media End-to-End Encryption and Child Safeguarding

  • Reference: 2022/0541
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 24 February 2022
Do you share the concerns raised by leading children’s charities including Barnardo’s, the Lucy Faithful Foundation, the Marie Collins Foundation and SafeToNet regarding plans by more social media companies to introduce end-to-end encryption, meaning they will no longer be able to detect cases of child sex abuse on their platforms?
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