• Reference: 2024/3246
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

What further powers, beyond those already enshrined in the GLA Act, does a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) give you to enable you to pedestrianise Oxford Street?

• Reference: 2024/3245
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

A constituent has queried what levers are available to you to improve the quality of meals served under your Free School Meals programme. They are concerned at the prevalence of ultra processed foods on the menu at the school their children attend. What standards on meal quality are included in your arrangements with the boroughs to provide free school meals?

• Reference: 2024/3244
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

The last large-scale central London Car Free Day event was in September 2019 and the one this year was not at all comparable in geographical scale or ambition. Will you commit to a major central London car free event in 2025?

• Reference: 2024/3243
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Constituents have raised concerns with me that Transport for London (TfL) changes to road layouts for Silvertown Road Tunnel at Bow Roundabout, Preston’s Roundabout and the junction of the A13 and A102 were not shared with local walking and cycling organisations prior to scheme design or implementation. All these junctions have had concerning collisions over the past decade, and each of them also has a cycleway. Could you tell me what engagement, if any, TfL carried out with local groups on these junction changes and what information was provided to nearby residents prior to construction?

• Reference: 2024/3242
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

Many of your Opportunity Areas are situated in some of the most economically deprived parts of London. What assessment have you made of the risks to communities of continuing to promote private investment in these areas, many of which are experiencing rapidly rising rents and a decline of affordable amenities and other social infrastructure?

• Reference: 2024/3241
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

How many projects awarded grants under the AHP 2021-26 have successfully pursued the Accelerated Funding Route, since its launch on 22 February 2024, and what percentage of overall funded projects do these comprise?

• Reference: 2024/3240
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

London Councils estimate that one in every 85 homes in the city is currently available for short-term rent on online platforms, despite the 90-day online let rule per home, meaning far fewer homes are available for Londoners to live in. What powers are you calling for from the new Government, and what changes are you looking at making to the London Plan, to better regulate short-term lets?

• Reference: 2024/3239
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

High Streets Data Service uses credit card data to collect information on economic activity. Are fundings adjusted to areas where there is a higher proportion of cash transactions e.g. areas with street markets?

• Reference: 2024/3238
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

What qualitative information is your High Streets Data Service collecting to capture the social and cultural benefits of high streets and other retail clusters, beyond their economic impact?

• Reference: 2024/3237
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2024

In May 2023, you and the leader of Westminster Council called on the previous Government to devolve more powers to set higher rates of council tax on empty homes and make it easier for councils to take over empty homes using Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs). Are you satisfied with the changes brought in on 1 April 2024 this year enabling councils to double council tax for residences that have been empty for 12 months? If not, are you lobbying the new Government for more powers?