• Reference: 2024/3687
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What is the Mayor's view on the current apprenticeship levy?

• Reference: 2024/3686
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What representations has the Mayor made to Government on the needs for young people in London regarding skills and opportunities for further education?

• Reference: 2024/3685
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What representations has the Mayor made to Government on the needs of businesses in London?

• Reference: 2024/3684
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

What discussions has the Mayor had with businesses to identify skills shortages for the current Mayoral term?

• Reference: 2024/3683
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Will you be given powers for the implementation of this new policy?

• Reference: 2024/3682
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Has the Mayor had discussions around funding for London from the Levy, and if so, how much funding will be provided?

• Reference: 2024/3681
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

How will the new Levy impact the Adult Education Budget?

• Reference: 2024/3680
• Question by: Alessandro Georgiou
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

How will the Growth and Skills Levy be beneficial to Londoners?

• Reference: 2024/3679
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Following up on questions 2024/3413 and 2024/2264, should I be concerned that TfL's ‘Framework Bus Contract’ is dated 1 January 2016 and contains nothing from (a) any one of at least four of TfL's 'world leading' bus safety initiatives and (b) the Vision Zero Programme? A document comparison with the November 2011 ‘Framework Bus Services’ contract shows that the few generic safety clauses the 2016 ‘Framework Contract’ TfL uses for tendering today do not differ substantively from the contract TfL used 13 years ago. How are we to believe that TfL is learning any lessons on bus safety when it...

• Reference: 2024/3678
• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Following up your response to question 2024/3412, I would conclude that any police decision to involve the DVSA in a collision investigation would be limited to incidents where the police suspected a catastrophic vehicle failure that pointed to a design or technical defect in the vehicle's make or model. Should I be concerned that TfL doesn't keep records on safety incidents involving its buses where DVSA has become involved in the crash investigation? Given your Vision Zero 'ambitions', aren't these precisely the kind of incidents on which TfL should be collecting data?