• Reference: 2019/0428
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

In response to my question (October last year) you stated that you are ‘generally wary of new permitted development rights as they can remove important safeguards against poor design quality or harmful impacts on neighbours’ amenity.’ How do you think councils can safeguard themselves from the detrimental impact – would article 40 be an option? Or is there anything you can do to safeguard standards?

• Reference: 2019/0427
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

In response to my question (September last year) you stated that the Greater London Authority was shortly due to complete the sign-up process for the British Sign Language Charter with the view of implementation last autumn. May I please have an update?

• Reference: 2019/0426
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

In response to my question (September last year) you stated that a fence has now been erected at the Ashburnham Avenue site and asked Transport for London to contact residents urgently to take further readings to understand the impact that the fencing has had on noise within affected properties. Has this been done and what is the outcome of the readings?

• Reference: 2019/0424
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

In the HIS implementation plan, the Mayor committed to: Fund work in 2018/19 to support the development of effective evaluation and outcomes measurement and the further development of sustainable social prescribing models; and Fund work in 2018/19 to explore how digital solutions might support the effective roll-out of social prescribing, and how to obtain the more specialist social welfare advice people need but is increasingly difficult to access. Please can you provide detail of a) how much funding has been allocated for each of these commitments, b) what work has been commissioned, and c) when the results of each of...

• Reference: 2019/0423
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

In the first half of 2019 you are due to publish your final social prescribing vision, and the London Health Board will consult on a refreshed Health and Care Vision for London. What steps have you taken, and will you go on to take before publication, to ensure the views of recognised NHS trade unions are represented in the eventual output?

• Reference: 2019/0422
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

I have been contacted by several of my constituents who are disabled, have Freedom Passes, but also have carers. Currently, carers are not eligible for Freedom Passes or anything equivalent, and this makes the reality of travel for them and the person they are carer for very difficult, financially, in many cases. Would you investigate bringing in some form of free or reduced travel for carers for Transport for London services?

• Reference: 2019/0421
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Since December 2016, London’s public health laboratory, previously at St Barts, has been closed and its staff redeployed across the south east. The Lead Public Health Microbiologist post has been vacant since 2016 and the London regional virologist post since June 2018. Do you agree that London requires a city-based, 24/7 public health lab, and will you write to Public Health England asking a) what risk assessment they made of their decision to disestablish the London facility and b) what plans they have for the city’s future needs in this department?

• Reference: 2019/0420
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Thrive LDN’s recent paper “Londoners Said” made ten recommendations based on a set of city-wide conversations about mental health. What progress have you made on these and what steps do you have planned to take them forward in the future?

• Reference: 2019/0419
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

NHS England has said more than 50,000 women have missed a cervical screening test because Capita failed to notify them. Has the NHS ascertained how many of these women are London residents, and if so, what are the relevant figures?

• Reference: 2019/0418
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

The number of fines issued to people in London who allegedly misused free NHS dental provision more than doubled from 2015/16 to 2016/17, reaching 155,000. On appeal, nine out of ten fines are overturned and under a third are ever paid. Do you agree that it is inappropriate and ineffective for the NHS to spend time and money scaring people away from getting what they are entitled to, and will you ask the NHS in London to issue new guidance on dental fines that reduces this problem?