• Reference: 2014/3115
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

You have confirmed in your answer to my MQ 2014/2334 that while interventions to support parents returning to work have been proposed in the London Enterprise Panel's 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds Strategy, that the Strategy may be revised after the national programme of structural funds has been decided. Will you commit to doing all within your power to ensure that parental employment remains part of the Strategy? If for whatever reason it is dropped, will you commit to devising your own parental employment strategy, given your manifesto commitment "to create 20,000 part time jobs to help parents return...

• Reference: 2014/3114
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Following your answer to my MQ 2014/2337, which unit here at the GLA is supporting the Capitalise Debt Advice Partnership, and in what way?

• Reference: 2014/3113
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Following your answer to my MQ 2014/2337, which unit here at the GLA is supporting Toynbee Hall with its Tower Hamlets pilot study? In what way is it supporting Toynbee Hall? When will the pilot conclude?

• Reference: 2014/3112
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Following your answer to my MQ 2014/2647, after March 2015 will you, and by which means, publish an assessment of how the £318,600 of the Growing Places Fund was spent by the Skills Funding Agency to promote apprenticeships to 60,000 London based SMEs? Will it feature on the Investment and Performance Board's Project Performance Table for example?

• Reference: 2014/3111
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Your answer to my MQ 2014/2652 on how you would reform business rates following devolution was simply a link to the 'London Finance Commission - One Year On' report. The report does not answer my question. Will you now answer my question?

• Reference: 2014/3109
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Have you evaluated the costs and benefits of relocating Transport for London's insurance subsidiary - currently based in Guernsey - to the UK mainland?

• Reference: 2014/3108
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

How do you respond to statistics released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) which show a 45 per cent increase in the number of London households being placed in temporary accommodation outside their local authority area, up from 8,270 recorded on 31 March 2013, to 12,020 on 31 March 2014? How does this accord with your previous statement that "you are not going to see thousands of families evicted from the place where they have been living and have put down roots"?

• Reference: 2014/3107
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

How many GLA-funded affordable homes do you expect to have delivered between April 2011 and March 2015?

• Reference: 2014/3106
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Further to your answer to MQ2014/2634 - in which you stated that "average NO2 levels across monitoring sites near busy roads in Stuttgart, Paris, Munich, Rome and Milan are all higher than those recorded for London. Mexico City's levels are nearly double those of London, and Hong Kong, Istanbul, Beijing and Shanghai all have higher average readings as well" - can you confirm whether you were referring to hourly maximum nitrogen dioxide (NO2) values for these cities, or annual average values? Please provide the source of the data that you used to indicate that NO2 concentrations are worse elsewhere.

• Reference: 2014/3105
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Further to reports that the introduction of a Tunnel Cleaning Train on the Underground has now been delayed until 2017, by when do you expect to have competed detailed surveys concerning the removal of asbestos-containing material from the Underground network?