• Reference: 2012/3477
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Almost 15 per cent of working age disabled people in London are unemployed. I welcome your Work Smart London initiative, but this will only help 838 young people with disabilities. Many more face barriers such as employer prejudice, inaccessible workplaces, poor consideration of mental health and inaccessible public transport. What are you doing to help other ill and disabled people secure and sustain a decent job?

• Reference: 2012/3476
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Will you press the Government to exempt homeless families in temporary accommodation from the benefit caps, so that councils in London don't have to place families outside the capital?

• Reference: 2012/3475
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Does the Greater London Authority's draft asset strategy specifically address the potential of land and property holdings to be used to develop the low carbon economy, building on the LDA's work on the Green Enterprise District and Low Carbon London?

• Reference: 2012/3474
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Will you rule out financial support and the provision of GLA group owned sites for free schools that teach creationism as scientific fact?

• Reference: 2012/3473
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How will you ensure that all free schools you support, financially, with sites or otherwise, commit to community access and use of facilities through agreed extended opening and lettings policies?

• Reference: 2012/3472
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How will you ensure that all free schools you support, financially, with sites or otherwise, commit to appropriate staffing arrangements to ensure high quality teaching and learning from qualified staff and good employment practices, including in relation to support and contracted staff?

• Reference: 2012/3471
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How will you ensure that all free schools you support, financially, with sites or otherwise, commit to a close working relationship with the local authority in order to maintain an appropriate focus on borough-wide priorities, including local authority nomination of a member of the governing body and a commitment to sharing performance information?

• Reference: 2012/3470
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How will you ensure that there is fair access to free schools for pupils with special education needs, disabilities or on the free school meals register?

• Reference: 2012/3469
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How will you ensure that free schools you support, financially, with sites or otherwise, are democratically accountable to the local community as well as to the Secretary of State for Education?

• Reference: 2012/3468
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

What steps are you taking to ensure that public funding for new schools is directed towards areas of London where there is the largest anticipated shortfall in school places?