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Emma Best: ...charge within the NHS for international visitors but not treatment after admission. Can you confirm if you would like to see treatment after admission free on the NHS for international visitors to London who are not UK residents?
Emma Best: According to the London Datastore there were an estimated 21.7 million international visitors to London in 2019. If just 5% of these visitors accessed NHS care, the cost would be approximately £83,545,000 based on an average cost to the NHS of £77 per visit. Given that you have called for the NHS to offer free healthcare to anyone without proving their immigration status, can you confirm if...
Emma Best: With regard to the Implementation Plan for the London Health Inequalities Strategy can you please tell me whether ethnic health inequalities have increased or decreased since 2016?
Emma Best: Is London on track to have 250,000 wellbeing champions by 2025?
Emma Best: With regard to the Implementation Plan for the London Health Inequalities Strategy can you please tell me how many school super zones have been created?
Emma Best: The average number of suicides in London between 2016-2021 was 581 which is slightly lower than the average number of suicides in London between 2001-2021 (595). Do you believe that your health strategies should be adapted in order to reduce the number of suicides in London?
Emma Best: What year will London be net zero?
Emma Best: Community champions that help Londoners who need it most should be thanked by all of us. Can you please specify how you intend to reach “community champions to thank them for their work and support” as outlined in MD3026?
Emma Best: How successful has Thrive LDN been in improving mental wellbeing in London and how is this being measured?
Emma Best: Can you please tell me how many betting shops there are in London today compared to 2016?
Emma Best: The Pan-London sustainable food campaign appears to be based on using “inspiring messages and practical advice to build on successful past campaigns”. Rather than another campaign that will not help Londoners should you not instead spend the money on helping ease food poverty?
Emma Best: Do you know how many Londoners there are addicted to gambling both online and in betting shops?
Emma Best: Assistant Director's decision ADD2603/ Pan-London sustainable food campaign gives £30,000 of tax payer money to simply create a brief for a marketing campaign rather than the campaign itself. Do you not believe this money could be better spent helping Londoners during this cost of living crisis?
Emma Best: How will people be able to make an informed decision about the London-wide ULEZ expansion when data from 2021’s expansion is not yet available?
Emma Best: ...in May 2022, earlier this year, we sat here and talked about some of the ads that had, I believe, contravened the junk food ad ban, and you asked me to send you those ads that appeared on the London Underground network and that you would deal with them. I left that meeting and I sent you some nice coloured photos of all those adverts. Can you let me know what action was taken once you...
Emma Best: Thanks. That confirms that things like a Big Mac Bacon on the London Underground network are still allowed to be there. That kind of shows somewhere where the policy is falling down within London Underground’s TfL estate. The next question I wanted to ask you is: you made the statement that there would be 11 countries, I think, that would be banned from advertising due to their attitude to...
Emma Best: Can you confirm whether you believe anyone in the world that is not currently eligible to use NHS services in London should be able to do so?
Emma Best: Can you please provide an update on Polio vaccine uptake in London in 2022?
Emma Best: ...that you didn't know the cost of introducing Universal Free School Meals (FSM). In order to lobby effectively for universal FSM would it not make sense to fully understand those costs, at least in London, to put forward the case of how this can be achieved?
Emma Best: Can you provide a list of all CCGs in London and tell us what level of engagement you have had with each of them since 2016?