The Economy and London

Hina became the chair of the London Assembly’s Economy Committee in May 2022. 

She has used the chairpersonship to provide a space for those hidden voices of London. She has enabled Londoners to share their actual lived experiences which has including a meeting on food insecurity in which a former food bank user was able to relay the reality of the cost of living crisis.

Since becoming chair she has become a champion for the incredible potential role that cargo bikes can play in transforming London businesses. The committee has heard evidence from numerous businesses or varying sizes: from small flower shops to Amazon, about the ways in which cargo bikes are greener, healthier, less noisy and more efficient than traditional forms of freight. Hina was invited to be an opening speaker at the first ever Cargo Bike Summit to highlight what is quickly being coined the ‘cargo-bike revolution’ for business.