• Reference: 2019/6355
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Your London Food Strategy states that you will explore the potential to partner with social enterprise models to help local authorities provide access to healthy, sustainable, affordable food in the home and community to combat social isolation and malnutrition. When do you intend to start this work? What is the timescale for completion?

• Reference: 2019/6354
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Your London Food Strategy states that you will undertake research to understand the food needs of older, vulnerable and disabled groups across London. When do you intend to start this work? What is the timescale for completion?

• Reference: 2019/6353
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What work are you carrying out on malnutrition in London?

• Reference: 2019/6352
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Will you be targeting the retail sector to become accredited to the Good Work Standard?

• Reference: 2019/6350
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

I refer to your response to my question (January 2019) on the above issue. In response to your reply my constituent states: 1) Fence was not erected by Transport for London. New fences were funded by residents personally at the cost of £700 each. The fences have had no effect on the noise and residents continue to endure noise seven days a week. 2) Residents would like to know why Transport for London moved the crossover rails from “the sidings” outside Harrow on the Hill station to the end of gardens, polluting gardens with unceasing intruding noise. Back in Easter...

• Reference: 2019/6349
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Can you review the design of countdown digital displays at Transport for London pedestrian crossings? Do you agree that 4-second countdowns (which seem like 3 seconds in practice) are too quick to be of much use to pedestrians in their decision-making? Why cannot all displays be extended by, say, 5 seconds, and overlapping the still-lit green-person light for their first 5 seconds? Is there any statutory or published guideline reason why not? Have digital displays proven to be safer, or are they more a matter of convenience?

• Reference: 2019/6348
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

At light-controlled crossings, does Transport for London install both current systems of red/green-person lights for pedestrians? That means (a) just on the far side of crossings or (b) just on the nearby metal pole as the push-button boxes. Are you in favour of both systems being used? Do you advise boroughs on which to choose? Is the choice governed by statutory rules and/or any published guidelines? Which do pedestrians prefer? Which is safer?

• Reference: 2019/6347
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What does Transport for London estimate it would cost to offer payroll deduction for employees to save with a credit union?

• Reference: 2019/6346
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

What funding will the Greater London Authority family commit to making the aims of the social prescribing vision a reality?

• Reference: 2019/6345
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Further to our recent correspondence, is the position of the public health microbiologist equivalent to the lead public health microbiologist post which existed until 2017 and has since been vacant?