• Reference: 2017/2324
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

In Mayor's Question 2016/2931, I asked about siren volumes on emergency service vehicles during the quiet hours in London. The reply stated that there are 'no current plans to review the use of sirens in London'. Why not? It is obvious to most London residents that emergency service vehicle drivers are unaware that sirens must be used with restraint at night. This issue has repeatedly been raised over a dozen years by Assembly Members, without any one of us receiving anything that might be regarded as a satisfactory response. All of which, raises the rather trickier question of why the...

• Reference: 2017/2323
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

To ask the Mayor whether press reports that he is intending to increase the number of staff at City Hall by 100 people are true and what all these staff are going to be doing and how much are they going to paid.

• Reference: 2017/2322
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

To ask the Mayor how many BAME staff occupy senior grades at City Hall and what steps are being undertaken to increase their representation at that level.

• Reference: 2017/2321
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

Will you furnish me with a list of PFI schemes currently being operated by the GLA 'family'?

• Reference: 2017/2320
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How much of the TfL Pension Fund is currently managed by the US investment management corporation Blackrock and is this appropriate and ethical, given TfL's responsibility for ensuring compliance with taxi and private hire legislation and Blackrock's £500 million stake in the transportation network company Uber?

• Reference: 2017/2319
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

Have any TfL staff been the subject of disciplinary action, in respect of the Garden Bridge procurement process?

• Reference: 2017/2318
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

In the light of Dame Margaret Hodge's damning report into the Garden Bridge project, published on 7 April 2017, what lessons have been learned by TfL's procurement staff from this process - most specifically around awarding contracts, before issuing invitations to tender?

• Reference: 2017/2317
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

Given the release of a public statement on 10 April 2017 by the architects Marks Barfield, stating that the outcome of the tendering competition for the Garden Bridge was pre-determined and that they only submitted a bid after being badgered by TfL, can the Mayor state whether he intends to issue a public apology to Marks Barfield?

• Reference: 2017/2316
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

How is your target of 50 per cent of all new homes in London to be genuinely affordable progressing?

• Reference: 2017/2315
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 22 June 2017

What representations have you made to Clarion Group, the UK's largest housing association, about their lack of recognition of trade unions in the workplace?