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Garden Bridge

  • Reference: 2017/2611
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 28 June 2017
Should the Mayor have cancelled the Garden Bridge as soon as he was elected?

Transport Strategy

  • Reference: 2017/2606
  • Question by: Tom Copley
  • Meeting date: 28 June 2017
How will the Mayor's Transport Strategy improve the lives of Londoners? Written questions

Benefit Sanctions

  • Reference: 2017/2603
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
Thank you for your answer (2017/1885). Can you please provide an update of the work the Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement and his team is carrying out around poverty and deprivation in London. What recommendations has this led to in terms of your role in complementing existing activity to address the way the welfare benefits system including the role of sanctions drives poverty in London?

Meals on Wheels

  • Reference: 2017/2602
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
Can you provide an update on the work GLA officers have been carrying out speaking to key stakeholders in the meals on wheels sector and consider how these can help older people in London, as referred to in your letter dated 5th September 2016 replying to my letter about Malnutrition in Older People.

Healthy Start Vouchers

  • Reference: 2017/2601
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
There is a large variance between London Boroughs on the uptake of Healthy Start vouchers. What steps can the London Food Board take to address this?

Food Poverty (4)

  • Reference: 2017/2600
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
Eight out of 10 paediatricians in the capital who responded to the online poll, run by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Child Poverty Action Group, said that food insecurity "very much" affects the health of the children. With your remit to tackle health inequalities what action are you taking to combat this?

Food Poverty (3)

  • Reference: 2017/2599
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
London has a large number of independent providers of emergency food provision. What steps can the GLA take to assist mapping the current provision in London?

Food Poverty (2)

  • Reference: 2017/2598
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
The latest figures from the Trussell Trust showed that 111,364 Londoners received three days' emergency food in 2016/17, what steps will you be taking to address the continued high number of Londoners forced to rely on emergency provision of food.

Food Poverty (1)

  • Reference: 2017/2597
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
On 19th October at Mayor's Question Time when I asked you about food poverty you said 'I have made a commitment to monitor levels of poverty and food poverty, and to develop effective and targeted intervention strategies to tackle the huge challenges that London faces'. Can you provide an update on progress around this?

London Markets (3)

  • Reference: 2017/2596
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 22 June 2017
When is the report 'Understanding London's Markets' expected to be published?
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