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24 February 2010 PRIORITY ORDER PAPER Report No: 5 Subject: Questions to the Mayor Report of: Executive Director of Secretariat Questions not asked during Mayor’s Question Time will be given a written response by Monday 1 March 2010 Supporting community-led development Question No: 633 / 2010 Jenny Jones How do you support organised local communities such as the London Citizens Community Land Trust consortium who wish to lead on developing affordable housing schemes in their area? Housing Question No: 714 / 2010 Nicky Gavron How do your Draft London Plan Opportunity Areas impact on your housing policies and targets? Metropolitan Police Budget Question No: 881 / 2010 Dee Doocey How will your cuts to the Metropolitan Police budget affect front line policing? Blackwall Tunnel Question No: 377 / 2010 Gareth Bacon With over 2,200 vehicles using the Blackwall Tunnel every hour in each direction, east and south east London are at risk of being brought to a standstill by plans to cordon off half of the Tunnel in each direction during the 2012 Olympic Games. Will you oppose these plans and ensure that they are never implemented? 1 Bridges and River Crossings Question No: 712 / 2010 Valerie Shawcross Have you, as Simon Jenkins alleges, declared war on South London? PPP Contracts Question No: 474 / 2010 Richard Tracey What mistakes did the Government make in drawing up the PPP contracts for London Underground’s upgrade? LFEPA Question No: 713 / 2010 Len Duvall Is the reputation of LFEPA causing damage to London Government? Anti-Semitic Incidents (1) Question No: 429 / 2010 Brian Coleman Does the Mayor share my concern about the 460 reported anti-Semitic incidents that took place in London in 2009, an increase of 95% over the past year, including 48 incidents of assault? What is being done by the GLA and Metropolitan Police to tackle anti-Semitic behaviour and protect members of the Jewish community from attacks? London Enriched Question No: 366 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Does the Mayor believe that the large amounts of London Taxpayers’ money being utilised to support his and the former Mayor’s initiative “London Enriched” is a signal to refugees everywhere that London in particular is the home of milk and honey and exacerbates the arrival of thousands more refugees to Calais hoping eventually to get to London and access these perceived riches? Out of Hours Care Question No: 394 / 2010 James Cleverly Following the report that there is only 1 GP covering the whole of Bromley at night, are you concerned that the inadequate provision of Out of Hours Care is contributing to health inequalities in the capital? 2 Manifesto Commitments Question No: 708 / 2010 John Biggs Should Londoners hold you to your Manifesto commitments? Crystal Palace FC Question No: 874 / 2010 Steve O’Connell The Mayor will be aware that Crystal Palace FC has recently entered administration. Bearing in mind that as well being an iconic partner in the borough, it is a key employer in an area of deprivation, would the Mayor wish to comment? Would he also wish to offer any comfort to those employees and to the thousands of palace fans who face a future without their beloved club? Extension of Oyster to National Rail services Question No: 601 / 2010 Caroline Pidgeon Do you think it was right of Peter Hendy to say in his Commissioner’s report to the TfL Board on the 3rd February that the “extension of Oyster to National Rail services in London went without a hitch?” Congestion Charge Exemptions (1) Question No: 436 / 2010 Tony Arbour Which organisations or individuals are entitled to receive exemptions to the Congestion Charge? Draft Municipal Waste Strategy Question No: 520 / 2010 Mike Tuffrey The 2015 target for recycling or composting municipal waste has fallen from 67% by 2015 to 45%. Does this reflect more the failure of your predecessor’s strategy or your strategy’s lack of ambition? (Waste Strategy 2003 compared to the Draft Municipal Waste Strategy 2010) Oxford Street (1) Question No: 450 / 2010 Victoria Borwick Does the Mayor agree with the Transport Committee, the New West End Company, Selfridges, M&S and others that the pace of change for reducing the congestion in Oxford Street should be increased? 3 Budget Question No: 710 / 2010 Len Duvall Can the Mayor tell us what aspects of his budget were discussed with the London Congress at their last meeting? Olympic land and debt agreement (1) Question No: 403 / 2010 Andrew Boff What will be the impact on the LDA and its projects if it takes six months for an agreement to be reached on Olympic land and debt? Recycling in flats Question No: 642 / 2010 Jenny Jones How will you ensure that all Londoners, including the half living in flats, have easy access to adequate recycling and composting facilities? Burglary (2) Question No: 419 / 2010 Brian Coleman Will the Mayor list by ward the number of reported burglaries in the London Borough of Barnet for the last month for which figures are available and will he ask the Chairman of the MPA to take urgent action on the level of burglary in suburban boroughs? Low Emission Zone Question No: 719 / 2010 Murad Qureshi I note from advice given to you in December 2008 that it is costing TfL an additional £600,000 to delay Phase III of the LEZ to 2012. How is this cost made up? Thames Bridges Question No: 432 / 2010 Richard Tracey Is the Mayor happy that road works on the Thames bridges in London are being sufficiently co- ordinated? USA Day Question No: 720 / 2010 Len Duvall Given your commitment to providing value for money, will you be calling on the USA Embassy to 4 fund your forthcoming USA Day, using the monies they have saved through non-payment of Congestion Charge? [Note: The following are priority questions, but are not in proportional order.] Construction works disruption Question No: 721 / 2010 Valerie Shawcross I have unfortunately had a number of complaints over recent months about building contractors working on development sites behaving in an inconsiderate manner to local residents. Complaints range from noisy work taking place outside the hours specified in the planning permission to construction vehicles blocking access roads. Although enforcement of these matters clearly lies with the boroughs, as Mayor of London, will you consider putting in place a London-wide good practice code for contractors and borough planning departments to try and improve consistency on planning enforcement issues? 381 bus Question No: 722 / 2010 Valerie Shawcross It is clear from TfL’s own figures that complaints from disabled passengers on route 381 have not reduced over recent years as they have on other routes. What measures are TfL planning to take to tackle this? Questions for Written Answer Hate Crimes Question No: 367 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Ben Kinsella, Robert Knox, Jimmy Mizen, Martin Dinnegan, Peter Woodham, Richard Whelan, Billy Ward and Christopher Gregory to name but a few in recent times, were all murdered by individuals from ethnic communities. Do you share the concern of many Londoners that absolutely none of these killings have been designated ‘racist murders’ by the Metropolitan Police, and that double standards are being applied, bearing in mind that, in my view, an enormous guilt trip was imposed on British people after the Stephen Lawrence murder and the subsequent numerous investigations? * Global Warming (1) Question No: 368 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook After your attendance at the Copenhagen Climate change Summit, would you agree with the sentiments of EU spokesman Nick Griffin MEP when he asserts that in fact “the world is cooling” and global warming is a fraud? 5 * Global Warming (2) Question No: 369 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook With the climate change agenda badly discredited with false data combined with one of the coldest spells on record, is it time to abandon our obsession with carbon footprints and tackle the real environmental disaster affecting London, namely overpopulation? * Global Warming (3) Question No: 370 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Would the Mayor agree that all his recent initiatives on water shortages, energy shortages, housing shortages and waste disposal problems actually point to London being populated beyond its means and is it not incumbent upon the Mayor to address that issue above all others? * Akmal Shaikh Question No: 371 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Your answer to Brian Coleman in Mayor’s question no: 318/2010, has provoked a number of constituents to ask how you conclude that Akmal Shaikh is a Londoner bearing in mind he was born in Pakistan, lived in America for many years and moved to Poland in 2003? Is it now possible to be a Londoner without the need for being born in this fair city? * Notting Hill Carnival Question No: 372 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook What were the clean up costs in the aftermath of the Notting Hill Carnival for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009? Who pays the clean up costs in the aftermath of the Notting Hill Carnival? * Sexual Violence Question No: 373 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Is the Mayor taking any action in relation to the following report in “Safeguarding Children”: “A London Young Offenders Team has reported concerns about the number of young women who regard abusive behaviour from young men as a ‘normal’ part of adult relationships”? * Sexual Violence Question No: 374 / 2010 Richard Barnbrook Following the report in “Safeguarding Children”, in particular the shocking revelation that “nearly all the girls involved with gangs have been raped by male group members. Some senior gang members pass their girlfriends around to