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Autumn Statement (2)

  • Reference: 2016/4957
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
What proportion of the £1.8 billion awarded to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) across England through a third round of Growth Deals, of which £492 million to London and the south east, is the London Enterprise Panel expecting to receive?

Autumn Statement (1)

  • Reference: 2016/4956
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now judges that uncertainty following the decision to leave the EU will reduce business investment and that GDP growth has been revised down by 0.8 percentage points in 2017 and by 0.4 percentage points in 2018. How will this impact on London's economy?

Digital infrastructure

  • Reference: 2016/4955
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
What proportion of the £1 billion investment fund for digital infrastructure will London receive?

Skills funding for 16-18 year olds

  • Reference: 2016/4954
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Can you update me on your conversations with regards to the devolution of skills funding for 16-18 year olds?

Careers Guidance

  • Reference: 2016/4953
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
A recent report by Ofsted has urged the government to do more to promote "enterprise education" in schools", including the promotion of economic and business understanding and financial capability" among pupils. This would include how schools prepare pupils for employment and self-employment, and employers should offer more support in the form of mock interviews, careers talks and work experience. Will you take these ideas into consideration when you look into improving careers guidance across London?

Adult Skills Budget

  • Reference: 2016/4952
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Has the amount that you will receive from the Government for the Adult Skills Budget in 2019-20 been decided yet? If so, how much has been agreed?

Living Wage supermarkets

  • Reference: 2016/4951
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Following Lidl being the first supermarket to pay the London Living Wage and recently announcing it will pay the new rate, will you encourage all of the other main supermarkets to pay the London Living Wage and become Living Wage accredited?

Saving Sutton's theatres

  • Reference: 2016/4950
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Sutton's two theatres represent the cultural lifeblood of the borough. However, the Secombe in Sutton and the Cryer in Carshalton have now both been closed. With your focus on culture in London, what can you do to assist in supporting the reopening of the two theatres in Sutton?

Healthy Start Vouchers

  • Reference: 2016/4949
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
Would London Datastore consider holding regularly updated data about uptake per Borough of Healthy Start Vouchers?

Food Flagship Boroughs

  • Reference: 2016/4948
  • Question by: Fiona Twycross
  • Meeting date: 14 December 2016
How will the best practice and learning from Food Flagship Boroughs be built on and rolled out to other London Boroughs?
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