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Apprenticeships Information Ambassadors Network

  • Reference: 2014/4292
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
How will the £100,000 allocated to the Apprenticeships Information Ambassadors Network, as agreed in DD1266, be spent in its promotion of apprenticeships in schools?

Broadband Funding

  • Reference: 2014/4291
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
How much of London's Super Connected City Plan's £25m has already been spent or dedicated?

London Datastore

  • Reference: 2014/4290
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
In your press release dated 23 October 2014 it is stated that London Datastore 2 "is aimed predominately at private sector businesses, professional city data organisations, academics, the London Boroughs and public services and is designed to act as a 'market place' for ideas and collaborative efforts". While the Datastore can provide valuable information for businesses, do you accept that its primary objective should be to honour its initial aim to "boost transparency and accountability in the capital" as set out in your press release dated 7 January 2010?

Newly Accredited London Living Wage Employers

  • Reference: 2014/4289
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
Which of the newly accredited London Living Wage employers this year are from the following sectors: hospitality/catering; cleaning; retail; social care?

Living Wage Efforts

  • Reference: 2014/4288
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
As per the London Assembly Economy Committee's 'Fair Pay' report's fifth recommendation, have you targeted 30 catering and hospitality employers and 30 high street retailers? Will you now report on instances where your contact has contributed to Living Wage accreditation? Have you, along with the Living Wage Foundation, developed a cohort of 20 employer champions across low-pay sectors?

Social Care Campaign

  • Reference: 2014/4287
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
While 11 London boroughs are accredited Living Wage employers, very few of their social care workers are yet paid the London Living Wage. Do you support Citizens UK's Social Care Campaign, as some of these councils do? If not, why not? If so, what have you done and/or plan to do about it?

Partial Devolution to Boroughs of Minimum Wage Enforcement

  • Reference: 2014/4286
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
Following the London Assembly Economy Committee's 'Fair Pay' report's first recommendation to partially devolve minimum wage enforcement powers to London boroughs, and your response dated 29 April 2014, will you now look again at the issue as part of the wider context of the London devolution campaign?

Air Pollution - Oxford Street

  • Reference: 2014/4285
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
Given your statutory duty to "promote improvements in the health of persons in Greater London" when exercising any of the Authority's principal purposes, including promoting the improvements of the Environment in Greater London, do you now regret tweeting comments at 4:56am on 16 July 2014 in which you dismissed scientific evidence from King's College London showing that Oxford street has the world's worst recorded concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as "B*ll*cks"?

Environment Advisor - comments on Oxford Street

  • Reference: 2014/4284
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
Was it appropriate for your Environment Advisor to question the rigour of the widely respected Environmental Research Group (ERG) at King's College London with regard to the statement made by their Principal Air Quality Scientist that Oxford Street has, to his knowledge, the highest concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) recorded by any roadside air pollution monitor anywhere in the world?

NO2 emissions of Euro VI double decker hybrid bus fleet

  • Reference: 2014/4283
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 19 November 2014
What are the measured exhaust emissions of NO2 of the following Euro VI hybrid diesel-electric double-deck buses that have or are due to enter service with TfL this year: (a) Alexander Dennis E400H, (b) Wrights / Volvo Gemini 3, and (c) New Routemasters?
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