• Reference: 2018/5251
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

What is the Mayor doing to help private hire drivers meet the costs of new electric vehicles when the costs of the vehicles are £63,000 and drivers earn a reported average of £50,000 1 annually?

• Reference: 2018/5250
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Hamida Ali of Croydon Council recently stated to the Police and Crime Committee that children caught up in serious youth violence lacked a safe or trusted adult. What is being done to address this and to make sure children in London are not left without an advocate when dealing with the system?

• Reference: 2018/5249
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How many girls and women have been referred to the London Gang Exit Strategy? Could you provide a breakdown by age and ethnicity?

• Reference: 2018/5248
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How many girls and women have had their details added to the gangs violence matrix? Could you provide a breakdown by age, ethnicity and whether they are perpetrators, victims or both?

• Reference: 2018/5247
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How will the work of the Violence Reduction Unit support council led teams such as the integrated gangs teams in Islington and Hackney?

• Reference: 2018/5246
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

According to the Childhood Trust 40% of children living in poverty will not receive one gift this Christmas. What is the Mayor doing to stop the most disadvantaged young people from feeling excluded from society, particularly during the Christmas season?

• Reference: 2018/5245
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

The recent United Nations report on poverty in the UK suggested that there was a disconnect between the government’s understanding of poverty in the UK and the stories of those in the UK living in poverty. What are you doing to stop poverty becoming a hidden and ignored problem in London?

• Reference: 2018/5244
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

How much has been spent by the Mayor on mitigating against the government's austerity policies, both in protecting those on lower incomes to stop them from falling into poverty and also on providing for the basic needs of those already in poverty? How much longer can the Mayor afford to keep doing this?

• Reference: 2018/5243
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Your Skills Strategy promises to undertake a strategic, pan-London review of SEND education need and provision. When will the results of that review be published?

• Reference: 2018/5241
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Given your answers to questions 2018/3133 and 2018/3134, what was the cost of printing and placing 10 'London is Open' signs in different languages around London?