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• Reference: 2023/3949
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

When I visited Ridley Road Market in Dalston, some traders expressed considerable frustration over how Hackney Council had spent funds provided by your Good Growth Fund to upgrade the market. How are you ensuring money from your Good Growth Fund is spent wisely and that the local community is properly consulted?

• Reference: 2023/3951
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 12 October 2023

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/3545, in which you refer to the June 2023 report: Rights and Risks: Migrant labour exploitation in London, which you commissioned from Focus on Labour Exploitation and The Young Foundation. In this you said: “I have urged the Government to do more to ensure migrants can access their rights, can identify abuses they are experiencing, and have access to the support they need.” Aside from lobbying Government, what actions have you taken to act on the recommendations in the report?

• Reference: 2023/3543
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Who is undertaking the independent impact evaluation for your Skills Academies, and when is it due to be published?

• Reference: 2023/3545
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What positive impact do you think the Government legislating for a right to work for all migrants would have on London?

• Reference: 2023/3550
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

How is the retrofit sub-group of the London Partnership Board engaging with tradespeople, business owners and others working in the retrofit sector to inform its work?

• Reference: 2023/3556
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

What lessons have been learned in terms of developing low-carbon skills through procurement from the previous Mayor’s Retrofit Employer Accord?

• Reference: 2023/3076
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

How do you intend to help make universal basic income (UBI) trials a reality in London?

• Reference: 2023/2577
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

In a letter to me dated 27 March 2023, the Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills stated that the total Adult Education Budget (AEB) contribution to green skills training in the 2021-22 academic year was £33.2 million. The Deputy Mayor stated that this funding supported three categories of green skills development: technical green skills, green skills to support trades, and ‘enabling’ green skills. Could you provide: a) a full breakdown of which specific training courses were funded under each of these categories in the 2021-22 academic year, and b) how many AEB-funded learners each course supported?

• Reference: 2023/1841
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Cleaners at the Institute of Education (IOE) at University College London (UCL) have for many years been expected to use one room as both their changing and break room. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) union has shared videos of the conditions in the room showing how wastewater often leaks through the ceiling and how the lights in the room regularly stop working. In response to 25 cleaners signing a collective grievance, UCL and Sodexo promised to find an alternative space for cleaners to use, but three months later little progress has been made. As UCL, through University...

• Reference: 2023/1216
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Are you confident that there are enough skilled workers in place to deliver your 'retrofit revolution'?