• Reference: 2019/20644
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

80% of London’s Gypsies and Travellers live in bricks and mortar housing. Most of them would like to live on a permanent site, but there is a crisis in provision of these sites. What have you done to ensure that new permanent sites are being identified and provided?

• Reference: 2019/20643
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Please provide details of the allocation of talking buses across London. Please provide a breakdown of allocation borough by borough.

• Reference: 2019/20642
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Kit Malthouse MP said on a recent File on Four programme that the government is going to “look more towards a disruption strategy that says we need to make [ the drugs] business so hard to do in the UK that there is no point exploiting young people in the first place, at the same time supporting them and intervening with them early to make sure they don’t get involved in the trade.” Please outline exactly what funding the government has given you to support those identified as exploited by county lines drugs gangs?

• Reference: 2019/20641
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Kit Malthouse MP said on a recent File on Four programme that the government is going to “look more towards a disruption strategy that says we need to make [ the drugs] business so hard to do in the UK that there is no point exploiting young people in the first place, at the same time supporting them and intervening with them early to make sure they don’t get involved in the trade.” Please outline exactly what funding the government have given you for intervention work with young people at risk from county lines exploitation?

• Reference: 2019/20640
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

A target set as part of the Ethnicity Pay Gap Action Plan was to “develop a pool of GLA BAME staff trained specifically to participate in interviews at any level.” Please provide details of the pool and its involvement in recruitment across the GLA.

• Reference: 2019/20639
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

In January 2019 a press release from your office stated that “The key factor contributing to the gap is the lack of BAME staff in senior positions.” Please detail the work you and your office have undertaken to ensure that BAME staff are moving into senior positions across the GLA family.

• Reference: 2019/20638
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Please provide an update on the work of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group announced in January 2019.

• Reference: 2019/20637
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

You recently invested £4m to embed more youth workers in hospitals to help divert young people away from crime. Would schools also benefit from this model, to take some of the pressure off teachers and Safer Schools Officers?

• Reference: 2019/20636
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

You previously stated that there would be an updated figure on the number of Safer Schools Officers (SSO) in August. Please provide the most up to date figure broken down by: number of SSOs per Borough, number of SSOs allocated to one school vs number allocated to multiple schools, and number of schools with an SSO.

• Reference: 2019/20635
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

What discussions have you had with the Department for Education to gain clarity on London’s funding allocation for schools?