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• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you, Chair. My colleague just briefly brought up the London Youth Games there and I wanted to quickly confirm, hopefully, from either Lyn or Jules whether, with young children being able to use the Olympic Stadium and facilities over the last ten years, that legacy will continue and they will continue to use those facilities over the next ten years and beyond.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair): Mayor Fiaz, [there have been] no new housing developments on the Carpenters Estate for ten years. Are you proud of that record?

• Question by: Sakina Sheikh
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Sakina Sheikh AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon to the panel; it is great to have you join us here today to discuss the legacy of the London Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. You are absolutely right, Jules [Pipe CBE], about needing to assess this on a regional, local, and national scale in terms of what we have achieved. But I am going to be zoning in to the local a little bit. I wanted to start with you, Lyn, about asking has the Olympic Park met the regeneration commitments for the host boroughs? Then I might move on...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much indeed. I am going to ask my first question to the Deputy Mayor, given your contribution at the start, because section 1.4 of the original bid document promised these four great legacies: sport, community, environment and economy. I really want to try to focus on sport today. Let us look at the Olympic Stadium. The legacy for sport really centred around the Stadium itself. The bid document, if you look at it, promised conversion to a 25,000-seat multipurpose venue with athletics at its core. It will become a house of sport with...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Siân Berry AM: Thank you for coming here, Minister. I have been looking at particularly the £23 million that was allocated by the Government to local authorities and charities last week on 25 January [2020]. This is money for the Community Champions to give vaccine advice and boost the take-up. Looking at the list, it seems that some of the boroughs within London who have not received money are some of the boroughs that have some of the highest populations of minority ethnic groups, in terms of numbers, and some of the most deprived boroughs. I can see Enfield, Croydon...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Minister, we know there is much concern over the so-called South African variant. My worry is that these concerns could lead to a noticeable decrease in vaccine take-up. At St George’s Hospital in Tooting yesterday, one in ten people did not turn up for their vaccine. Is this a trend you are noticing in London and what are you doing to assure the public that the vaccines are effective against this variant as well?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Andrew Boff AM: Minister, the Government approved the lifesaving vaccines in a record time, provided the resources for the NHS to start a vaccination programme that is the envy of the world, and is now on track to protect the most vulnerable millions, giving hope that families can be reunited and that life can get back to normal. Do you regret not following the advice of Sir Keir Starmer [MP, Leader of the Opposition] to remain part of the European Medical Agency?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Minister, it is great to see you and thank you for your hard work. The Government has done a lot of work around combatting the spread of fake news, bad information, particularly in ethnic communities. Of course, in my own community I have seen a lot of very fake news being spread around, telling people not to take the vaccine and that it will impact their health negatively. You have done some good work on it. My question is: what more can be done, what other steps does the Government have planned and how can...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Tony Devenish AM: Thank you, Minister, for all the hard work you are doing. I would like to pay tribute to my two London boroughs, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and Westminster, for all the work they have been doing with you. My question is quite blunt, Minister. Will you work with the Mayor and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to make sure we prosecute the malicious anti-vaxxer propaganda that we are facing here in London?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Actually, Chair, sorry, I am just swapping with Dr Sahota because he has a couple of things that will run more smoothly if he takes them both together. Navin Shah AM (Chair): No problem at all. Thank you. Léonie Cooper AM: It is Assembly Member Cooper here. It is good to see you, Alderman Zahawi. I have sat in front of that sign for some time. My concern is, of course, about the new strains because Pollards Hill in Merton is one of the areas. We are obviously getting 10,000 tests done in a very local area...