• Reference: 2024/0546
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objectives to create: a) 20 hectares of species-rich woodland, b) 50 hectares of flower-rich grassland, c) ten km of rivers and streams, and d) five hectares of reedbeds by 2025, (p.182), how many hectares of a), b), and d) and how many km of c) have been created since the launch of the...

• Reference: 2024/0545
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “increase [London’s urban forest] by 10 per cent by 2050,” (p.167) what percentage increase in London’s canopy cover has been realised since 2018?

• Reference: 2024/0544
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “make more than half of London’s area green by 2050” (p.156), what percentage of London is now green, and what increase since the launch of the strategy does this amount to?

• Reference: 2024/0543
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4384, in which you outlined the parameters of the Migrant Advice Fund. How many people are you aiming to support through the Fund over its 12-month funding period, and are you planning to continue the Fund in 2024-25?

• Reference: 2024/0542
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/4801, in which you said, “most of [the London Finance Commission’s] longstanding recommendations remain valid today.” Could you provide information from the last 12 months of: a) when you met Government officials to lobby for at least one of the recommendations made in the report, and b) which recommendation(s) you lobbied for in each instance?

• Reference: 2024/0541
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Market Village in the Stratford Centre has been forced to close due to the site’s landlord going into administration. How are you working with Newham Council to: a) support the businesses affected, and b) protect this valuable cultural space from permanent closure?

• Reference: 2024/0540
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What representations have you made to the UK Government and to Octavia Housing following fire in a block of flats near Wembley with suspected cladding issues on 29th January?

• Reference: 2024/0539
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Please provide a breakdown by year of how many London Fire Brigade (LFB) staff (uniformed and non-uniformed) have been accused of bullying, and of those, how many have been dismissed (employment terminated) for each of the following over last five years plus the current year to present (present referring to when the answer is being drafted).

• Reference: 2024/0538
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Please provide a breakdown by year of how many London Fire Brigade (LFB) staff (uniformed and non-uniformed) have been investigated and of those investigated how many have been dismissed (employment terminated) for each of the following over last five years plus the current year to present (present referring to when the answer is being drafted): inappropriate physical touching, sexual assault, stalking and harassment, domestic abuse

• Reference: 2024/0537
• Question by: Hina Bokhari OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Please provide a breakdown by year of how many London Fire Brigade (LFB) staff (uniformed and non-uniformed) have been investigated and of those investigated how many have been dismissed (employment terminated) for each of the following over last five years plus the current year to present (present referring to when the answer is being drafted): Racism Sexism/Misogyny Homophobia