• Reference: 2018/1223
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Following my question on 22nd February on the Heathrow's adoption of the Living Wage (2018/0567), how will you, in the Good Work Standard, encourage small and medium sized businesses, who often feel it will be a financial struggle to do so, to take up the London Living Wage?

• Reference: 2018/1222
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Following the news that there have been almost 400 incidences of cyclists being seriously injured, and in some cases killed, due to collisions with car doors in West London over the past seven years, will the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor of Transport work with Cyclists UK in order to tackle this and ensure our streets are safer for cyclists?

• Reference: 2018/1221
• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Following the bomb scare at schools across West London, I'm sure the Mayor will join me in thanking the Metropolitan Police for their quick work in investigating the incident. In the long term, what can be done to disincentivise and clamp down on this kind of behaviour, where people create hoaxes in order to spread chaos and disruption?

• Reference: 2018/1220
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Some elderly residents are concerned about only being able to pay for parking with a mobile phone, which they might not have. Will you encourage councils to ensure there is also a traditional way of paying so that all Londoners can pay for parking?

• Reference: 2018/1219
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

A constituent has asked me whether the way in which Wildlife Crime is recorded centrally by the Met can be changed so that these crimes are assigned their own crime codes? This will ensure the true extent of wildlife crime is known and categorised.

• Reference: 2018/1218
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Is there evidence of any gender impacts on the loss of creative workspaces?

• Reference: 2018/1217
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

What steps are you taking to ensure that creative workspaces are large enough so artists have sufficient maker-space?

• Reference: 2018/1216
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Do you agree with the Local Government Association who have called on ministers to scrap permitted development rights for phone boxes? Please give your reasons.

• Reference: 2018/1215
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors believe that office-to-residential permitted development rules have allowed the development of 'extremely poor-quality housing'. Do you agree with their view and what action can you take to ensure that any such conversions are of the highest quality?

• Reference: 2018/1214
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

The Land Compensation Act (1961) stipulates that in the event of compulsory purchase, Landowners are to be reimbursed not only for the value of their land as it stood but for its potential value if it were used for something else in the future. This has given landowners an incentive to landbank to be able to sell that land for a higher price in the future and this higher price has forced developers to cut the affordable housing they can afford and to drip feed properties into the market in order to keep prices high. Would you support reform of...