• Reference: 2020/3907
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In the 4 th November meeting of the Economy Committee the Chief Executive for UKHospitality, Kate Nicholls, called on the Government to announce an extension of the business rates holiday for hospitality businesses beyond March 2020 as soon as possible so that businesses can undertake long term profit and loss analyses. Do you agree that a sector-specific extension is urgently needed now to help London’s businesses plan in the long-term?

• Reference: 2020/3906
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Do London Local Authorities need additional support via the Spending Review, to ensure that they can help businesses prepare for late information about the Brexit deal – or to help them prepare for a no-deal Brexit?

• Reference: 2020/3905
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The Government has said that it will announce how it will support councils experiencing reductions in business rates and council tax revenues in the upcoming Spending Review. Do you agree that anything less than a 100% reimbursement of lost income from business rates and council tax would pile further austerity onto local authorities in London?

• Reference: 2020/3904
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

What does London need in the upcoming Spending Review?

• Reference: 2020/3903
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

The Government’s Additional Restrictions Grant provides a lump sum of £20 per head to Local Authorities to support business activities. I am concerned that providing a business support grant on the basis of resident population, not number of businesses, risks disadvantaging London boroughs with a high number of businesses, such as Camden and Westminster. Will you be lobbying the Government to ensure businesses in these boroughs are not unfairly treated?

• Reference: 2020/3902
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

In your answer to MQ2020/2282 you pledged to continue to call for additional support for Londoners missing out on the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, stating that between a quarter and a third of London’s 869,000 self-employed remain excluded from support. With the commencement of a second lockdown, will you continue to lobby the Government on this important issue?

• Reference: 2020/3901
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

While I welcome the Chancellor’s extension of the Coronavirus Job Support Scheme, I am concerned it represents another last minute u-turn from the Government. Do you agree that many Londoners would not have been made unemployed if the Chancellor had announced this decision even one month earlier?

• Reference: 2020/3900
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

How are you working with and supporting London’s Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to power London’s economic recovery from Covid-19 in the short and long term?

• Reference: 2020/3899
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Wandsworth bid for money, installed and then rapidly removed all their LTNs – some installed merely for hours or days. Many constituents have asked if all the money for these installations has now been claimed and if any of the money claimed will need to be paid back, as the full six month trials were not completed?

• Reference: 2020/3898
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 19 November 2020

Local constituents and businesses remain concerned about the lack of disabled parking bays. Are there any plans to re-introduce any such bays on the main A24, or to implement more bays on adjoining side roads?