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Low pay and food bank usage

  • Reference: 2019/12109
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
How many Londoners are accessing food banks despite being in work? Can you break this figure down by year since 2012?

Universal Credit

  • Reference: 2019/12108
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) have highlighted that Universal Credit claimants are unable to see whether they have been paid the correct amounts as it gets paid in one payment, without access to calculations. Will you write to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd MP to make the appropriate changes to allow Londoners on Universal Credit to see how their calculations are made, and are then in a position to assess if mistakes have been made?

London Living Wage (3)

  • Reference: 2019/12107
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
How many London Boroughs are now signed up to the LLW? Please list them and the date when they signed up.

London Living Wage (2)

  • Reference: 2019/12106
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
What steps have been taken to ensure that more London Boroughs sign up to the London Living Wage?

London Living Wage (1)

  • Reference: 2019/12105
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
What has been done since 2016 to get more employers to sign up to the London Living Wage?

Deposit charge

  • Reference: 2019/12104
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
Does the Mayor agree that there should be a deposit charged on small, metal helium containers, given their proliferation in open spaces?

Green Alliance (3)

  • Reference: 2019/12103
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
Do we know how many people have responded to Government on the proposed Riverside incinerator expansion? How many responses supported it and how many responses opposed it?

Green Alliance (2)

  • Reference: 2019/12102
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
The same Green Alliance report also highlighted the importance of recovering incinerator bottom ash for aluminium recycling. How are you working to ensure this is the case for London’s existing incinerators?

Green Alliance (1)

  • Reference: 2019/12101
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
Green Alliance reported that less than half of aluminium packaging in the UK is recycled. Have you calculated a figure for London, and how will you increase it?

Divesting

  • Reference: 2019/12100
  • Question by: Leonie Cooper
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2019
Please provide an update on your commitment to divest the London Pension Fund Authority from fossil fuels – is divestment now complete?
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