• 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?

• Reference: 2012/1862
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

A recent report from Friends of the Earth [Reviving British Bees] claims it would cost at least £1.8 billion each year to replace the pollination of food crops that the UK's bees perform for free. In line with your commitment to keep down living costs for hard-pressed Londoners, and to protect the price of fruit and vegetables, will you include bees as a priority group when you next update your biodiversity strategy (2002)?

• Reference: 2012/1861
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

How much has the GLA invested in the development of C40 intellectual property (IP) to date? Has there been any cost relating to the monitoring or enforcement of this IP?

• Reference: 2012/1860
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Do you agree with the Secretary of State for Transport, Justine Greening, who has ruled out any prospect of increasing flights at Heathrow in advance the Government's consultation on aviation capacity? Will you oppose any move to 'mixed-mode' operation on Heathrow's runways?

• Reference: 2012/1859
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) recently announced an eight week extension to the process of securing a future tenant for the Olympic stadium, citing problems with the original terms of the tender. Please outline the issues which have arisen since the original invitation to tender (ITT) was issued in January, and list any 'clarifications' that have since been made?