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SME Broadband Voucher Scheme (4)

  • Reference: 2014/5124
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Do you think it is acceptable that you have £25m to improve broadband connections in London and yet nothing at all will have improved for those living in a number of areas of the capital who cannot get good enough broadband connections in their own homes?

SME Broadband Voucher Scheme (3)

  • Reference: 2014/5123
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
What will happen to the rest of the money awarded under the Urban Broadband Fund if it is not spent by the SME Broadband Voucher Scheme deadline?

SME Broadband Voucher Scheme (2)

  • Reference: 2014/5122
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Is the considerable underspend of the SME Broadband Voucher Scheme due to its ill conception as a scheme or due to you not publicising it well enough?

SME Broadband Voucher Scheme (1)

  • Reference: 2014/5121
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Following your answer to my MQ 2014/4291, why has not even a quarter of the Urban Broadband Fund been spent or committed, and what is your plan to remedy this before March 2015 when the SME Broadband Voucher Scheme is due to end (according to DD1272)?

London & Partners - openness and transparency

  • Reference: 2014/5119
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Following the apparent unwillingness of London & Partners - the official promotional company for London, majority funded by the Greater London Authority (GLA) - to open itself up to scrutiny from the London Assembly (for example by not providing its business plan in a timely manner or details of senior employee remuneration), will you consider making future GLA funding conditional on greater transparency?

TfL revenue from Associated Newspapers Ltd

  • Reference: 2014/5118
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
How much revenue was generated through TfL's contract with Associated Newspapers Limited - which allows for the distribution of free Metro newspapers on TfL property - in 2013/14?

Garden Bridge (2)

  • Reference: 2014/5117
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Further to the planning conditions placed on Westminster City Council's approval of the Garden Bridge, can you confirm if Transport for London (TfL) will act as a guarantor for the £3.5m annual maintenance costs of the Garden Bridge?

Garden Bridge (1)

  • Reference: 2014/5116
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Further to the planning conditions placed on Westminster City Council's approval of the Garden Bridge - designed to ensure that the Garden Bridge Trust will meet the future maintenance costs of the bridge - will you ensure that Londoners have access to the Garden Bridge in perpetuity in return for part funding the scheme?

Zero Emission Taxis

  • Reference: 2014/5115
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Following reports that Nissan has suspended its plans to launch a new cleaner London taxi amid doubts triggered by your proposals for an Ultra Low Emission Zone, is it time to reconsider providing additional financial support to taxi manufacturers in order to accelerate the development of new zero emission capable taxis?

Source London - future support

  • Reference: 2014/5114
  • Question by: Stephen Knight
  • Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Given your desire to see 100,000 electric vehicles on the streets of London "as soon as possible", how will you continue to support the uptake of electric vehicles now that you have sold the Source London network to a private operator?
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