• Reference: 2012/1872
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

The previous statutory Deputy Mayor held half-yearly engagement meetings with London's LGBT community to discuss key issues of concern. Can you confirm if these meetings will continue and, if so, which of your Deputy Mayors you expect to attend?

• Reference: 2012/1871
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

A recent report from London councils [Helping London recycle more] highlights the positive effects that local reward and recognition schemes have had on recycling, re-use and composting rates. Will you make sure these examples of best practice are shared across all boroughs through your London Waste and Recycling Board? Do you have any plans to create a London-wide incentive scheme?

• Reference: 2012/1870
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Please provide an update on the number of taxis that have been removed from service following the introduction of a 15 year age limit. Please also list the number of new taxis that have been licensed during the same period as well as any net increase in licensed drivers.

• Reference: 2012/1869
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Do you still intend to create a Cleaner Taxi Fund? If so, what progress have you made to secure corporate sponsorship?

• Reference: 2012/1868
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Further to MQ1236/2012, can you confirm that the financial support offered by Mercedes-Benz to drivers of vehicles affected by age limits - whereby a £1,500 discount was offered on the purchase price of a new Euro V compliant taxi - was available for the month of April only? If so, how many drivers took up this offer?

• Reference: 2012/1867
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

How seriously should Londoners take your pledge to protect London's green spaces when over 21 hectares of open space has been lost in planning approvals since 2008?

• Reference: 2012/1866
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Your answer to MQ1232/ 2012 referred me to priority question 1319/ 2012. However, in your oral response to Assembly Member Duvall, you mentioned only that you would 'certainly go on delivering more [street trees]'. Can you therefore confirm that your target of planting 20,000 street trees is based on an 8-year timescale and includes the 10,000 trees already planted between 2008 and 2012?

• Reference: 2012/1865
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Have you met Adrian Beecroft? If so, when, where, and what was discussed?

• Reference: 2012/1864
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Can you confirm the funding source for the recently announced competition to allocate £300,000 between three town centres?

• Reference: 2012/1863
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Your ambient noise strategy (now part of the integrated London Environment Strategy) has not been updated since 2004, yet the health effects of exposure to aircraft noise have become much better understood in recent years. Will you therefore agree to update this strategy at the earliest opportunity?