• Reference: 2016/3722
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

How will your proposals for a separate work permit system for London work in practice?

• Reference: 2016/3843
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

What is the percentage of state-educated children in London who leave school with five good GCSEs, compared with the percentage of non-Grammar School, state-educated children in Kent who leave school with five good GCSEs?

• Reference: 2016/3546
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Will you commit to continue MOPAC financial contribution to National Ugly Mugs which helps thousands of sex workers in London avoid dangerous individuals who target them and, in partnership with the police, has led to the arrest and conviction of a number of serial rapists in London

• Reference: 2016/3545
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

How, specifically, do you intend to harness the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector for the benefit of all Londoners?

• Reference: 2016/3544
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Has GLA Economics calculated the total economic value of London's Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE)?

• Reference: 2016/3543
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

I welcome your call to the Department for Transport for TfL to take over the running of Southern Trains. Given the continued poor service, and multiple cancellations and delays and overcrowding faced by passengers since the revised timetabling commenced, what progress has been made on this?

• Reference: 2016/3542
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Department for Education data shows that in 2013-14 when the £9,000 tuition fees were in place, just 22 per cent of 19-year-olds who were receiving free school meals (FSM) aged 15 were in higher education. What action can be taken to ensure that young Londoners receiving free school meals are able to progress to university if they wish to?

• Reference: 2016/3541
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Concerns have been raised by a number of organisations and colleges that the apprenticeship funding proposals will hit young people from deprived and BAME backgrounds due to the removal of the area uplift formula. Research by FE Weeks shows that in level 2 in construction framework which has the second most 16 to 18-year-old starts so far this year, face between 27 per cent (-£2,574) and 50% rate cut (-£7,027). Yet an adult aged 24 or over at a large employer would be funded 124 per cent (+£3,322) more than their current levels. Do you agree that this undermines the...

• Reference: 2016/3540
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Level of education, age, number of hours worked per week and whether you have children are still strong determining factors over the difference in pay between men and women. How will you promote the steps you are undertaking in City Hall to close the gender pay gap and break the glass ceiling to businesses in London?

• Reference: 2016/3539
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

What impact will the Apprenticeship Levy have in London?