• Reference: 2012/2196
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

As part of the revamp of Leicester Square - funded from your Great Outdoors programme - "more than 11,000 square metres of attractive granite paving" has been laid. As you know, much of London's flooding problem is exacerbated by homeowners paving over their gardens with non-permeable materials, thus increasing the strain on London's drains and sewers. With this in mind, can you please advise me how much of Leicester Square was paved before the revamp and how much is paved now? And can you please also advise how much of Leicester Square is now covered with permeable material compared to...

• Reference: 2012/2195
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

As part of the revamp of Leicester Square - funded from your Great Outdoors programme - five monuments to famous artists and intellectuals have been removed. They are busts of William Hogarth, Isaac Newton, John Hunter, Joshua Reynolds and a statue of Charles Chaplin. The statue of William Shakespeare has been allowed to remain. Why have the statues been removed, where are they now and what is to become of the statues? Are there plans for their return to the square?

• Reference: 2012/2194
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

When you first launched your RE:NEW home efficiency programme the expectation was that after you completed the retrofit of 200,000 homes by 2012 the government would take up the mantle and roll out the scheme nationally to treat 1.2 million homes with energy saving measures by 2015. Has the government signalled it will adopt the RE:NEW programme as part of a national programme and do you have any revised target dates for the retrofit of the 200,000th home?

• Reference: 2012/2193
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

You have committed to retrofit 20,000 homes under your RE:NEW home efficiency programme in 2012 / 13. How many do you plan to retrofit by the end of your second term as Mayor?

• Reference: 2012/2192
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I have been contacted by a constituent who expressed disappointment about the failure of London to deal with key issues during the Jubilee weekend. These are as follows: • Transport running a Sunday service when 1.2 million people were lining the Thames. • The writer comments that he experienced "utter chaos, especially after the event" and questions "Did nobody think of the spectators on this special day?" • Drainage. He states there were huge pools of water within minutes of the rain pour questioning how it is possible for there to be a lack of draining next to the "world's...

• Reference: 2012/2191
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Can you please explain why you have agreed to pay consultants £150,000 of public money to produce a report for a public body to bid for public money? (MD1004) Will you make public the invoices for the work involved in this project?

• Reference: 2012/2190
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

What was the remuneration prior to the election of the Chair of your London Waste and Recycling Board (LWaRB)?

• Reference: 2012/2189
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Do you a strategy for the location and number of exceptionally-large shopping centres in London? Have you or your officers considered intervening in breaking any deadlocked shopping centre ownership battles and the possible provision of compensatory planning approval elsewhere in London, thereby over-riding local, legitimate planning considerations?

• Reference: 2012/2188
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Would you support a change to the route the torch relay is taking through London Boroughs if there was a fear of protests along the proposed route?

• Reference: 2012/2187
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Please outline any funding you have earmarked for Free Schools?