• Reference: 2016/2946
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Further to your reply to Mayoral Question 2016/2495 asking for a breakdown of the public money already spent on the proposed Garden Bridge are you satisfied with the lack of detailed breakdown of expenditure provided by the Garden Bridge Trust? Following your announcement on LBC Nick Ferrari programme on the 19th August that the expenditure of public funds on the Garden Bridge has now reached £42 million can you please provide an updated and much more detailed breakdown of this expenditure than has previously been provided.

• Reference: 2016/2945
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

In answer to Mayoral Question 2016/0948 the previous Mayor stated in March that 'To date, the Garden Bridge Trust has raised £145 million towards its fundraising target of £175 million, including £85 million from the private sector." However on the 21st July 2016 Lord Davies of Abersoch, Chairman of the Garden Bridge Trust, wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport stating 'the Government's support has enabled us to secure substantial private funding to take the total amount to date to over £130 million." Are you concerned that in the past the Greater London Authority and TfL appear to have...

• Reference: 2016/2944
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

How do you reconcile your statement made in answer to Mayoral Question 2016/2537 'I have been clear that no more of Londoners' taxes that I am responsible for will go into the project' with your continued refusal to rule out the GLA providing a financial guarantee for the maintenance and upkeep of the bridge?

• Reference: 2016/2943
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Following the recent announcement by the Independent Police Complaints Commission that they are now establishing a line of inquiry of whether police officers involved in the initial cover up of the events at Hillsborough on the 15th April 1989 were Freemason members, do you think it is now timely that the Metropolitan Police Service helped to improve public confidence in its activities by requiring all members of the MPS to be expected to declare whether or not they are Freemasons?

• Reference: 2016/2942
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Please publish a table showing how many current temporary employees at Transport for London have been engaged via employment agencies and paid through Personal Service Companies for (a) less than 3 months, (b) 3 to 6 months, (c) 6 to 12 months, (d) 12 to 18 months, (e) 18 months to 2 years, (f) 2 to 3 years, (g) 3 to 4 years, (h) 4 to 5 years, (i) 5 to 6 years, (j) 6 to 7 years, (k) over seven years. Please also break down the figures for each time period showing how many employees in each category were...

• Reference: 2016/2941
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Further to your announcement on the 23rd August that you are recruiting new experts to scrutinise 'viability assessments' relating to the financial details that lie behind how much affordable housing new developments include, please set out how the new process will be open to public scrutiny.

• Reference: 2016/2940
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Further to your announcement on the 23rd August that you are recruiting new experts to scrutinise 'viability assessments' relating to the financial details that lie behind how much affordable housing new developments include, will you set out (a) how these posts will be advertised, (b) whether other applicants will be considered other than just finance surveyors and property consultants as mentioned in your press release.

• Reference: 2016/2939
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Further to your announcement on the 23 rd August that you are recruiting new experts to scrutinise ‘viability assessments’ relating to the financial details that lie behind how much affordable housing new developments include, will you consider introducing new rules in London to tackle the existing issue of viability consultants frequently working for both developers and local authorities? Will you in particular consider the introduction of strict conflict of interest provisions to prevent individuals from taking up work for private developers, at the very least for a specific period of time after they leave City Hall?

• Reference: 2016/2938
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

What plans do you have to increase the resilience of London's transport network to cope with extreme weather conditions?

• Reference: 2016/2937
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

What steps are you taking to ensure that all recruits to the Metropolitan Police reside within the metropolis and have you considered reinstating the rule that required all recruits to live within 25 miles of Charing Cross?