• Reference: 2019/20117
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Constituents have contacted me with concerns that climate change is having an impact on the incidence of subsidence affecting London’s buildings. It appeared to them as if insurance companies are removing trees as a first, not last, resort when any cases of subsidence are found. Given the crucial role of trees in mitigating the impact of climate change, especially in cities, what are you doing to protect trees from the purported practices of insurance companies?

• Reference: 2019/20116
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

In September and October 2019, you and your team received an invitation to participate in the Heathrow Community Noise Forum. The purpose of this forum is to discuss: “the planning and delivery of Heathrow’s future airspace changes, along with the steps we are taking to reduce the noise impacts of our operations.” Why have you not accepted this invitation?

• Reference: 2019/20115
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

The London Assembly Environment Committee report, Keeping out the chill: fixing London’s cold, damp and mouldy homes, in February 2019, recommended you should allocate funding to invest in the retrofitting of old housing stock as well as for new builds. What progress have you made on this recommendation?

• Reference: 2019/20114
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Are you on track to meet your household waste recycling target of 50 per cent by 2030?

• Reference: 2019/20113
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Your environment strategy lists a target to achieve 50 per cent household waste recycling by 2030. What percentage is currently being achieved?

• Reference: 2019/20112
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

When will you update the GIS data provided with the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (LAEI) 2016 to include emissions projected forward to 2020, 2025, and 2030?

• Reference: 2019/20111
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 14 November 2019

Further to the data released by your office in July 2016, can you provide: a) an updated list of schools in London where air pollution is exceeding legal limits, and b) confirmation of whether each of these schools has had an air quality audit?

• Reference: 2019/20110
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

How and when will your Prison Pathfinder programme be evaluated?

• Reference: 2019/20109
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

What more can the Government do to tackle hate crime in London?

• Reference: 2019/20108
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 31 October 2019

What action can you take to prevent incidences of hate crime in London?