According to the Sunday Times NED Awards, 20th March, Wol Kolade who claims he was behind TfL's fast food ban also said “as a result of (Guy’s & St Thomas’) Foundation research Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan banned fast food outlets from opening near schools.” Presuming he means Policy E9 part D of the London Plan, how has this policy practically stopped such fast food schemes close to schools? Please be specific re number of schemes.

My advertising restrictions policy, which bans the advertising of foods high in fat, salt and/or sugar across the TfL network, aims to reduce children’s exposure to adverts for unhealthy food. When the ban was implemented, it resulted in the average Londoner buying ‘385 less calories’ - equivalent to one and half chocolate bars - per week.

Separately, my London Plan policy E9 pro-actively aims to minimise the number of hot food takeaways within 400 metres of schools. Not only does this help boroughs to refuse new takeaways, but it will also actively deter applications from coming forward in these areas. Unfortunately, it is not possible to record applications that have not been made due to the policy.