• Reference: 2012/0898
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

In your reply to 596/2012 you attempted to blame the Labour Government for raising the qualification age for the Freedom Pass. The Government decision was however about the national concessionary travel scheme. The London scheme is a separate entity which offers concessions above and beyond those of the national scheme. When London Councils resolved in March 2010 to follow the Government's criteria you could have made representations that this not be applied in London. Why did you not choose to do this then but instead announced a reversal, two years later, at a Mayoral hustings meeting?

• Reference: 2012/0897
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

In your reply to 596/2012 you attempted to blame the Labour Government for raising the qualification age for the Freedom Pass. If this was such a heinous crime, why did you not lobby your government to reverse it?

• Reference: 2012/0896
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

It was recently announced that the CLT bid for St Clements Hospital was unsuccessful but that the successful bidder would be expected to incorporate an undefined version of a trust in their development. Can you explain further what this will mean? Given that I assume you will not, can you explain why Londoners should not believe this is simply a ruse to avoid openness about a massively disappointing decision?

• Reference: 2012/0894
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Will you facilitate a meeting with Crisis, and other charities, to formulate a co-ordinated approach to tackling rough sleeping in London?

• Reference: 2012/0893
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Statistics released on February 23rd show a 23% rise in rough sleeping this year. Independent research for charity Crisis predicts that with unemployment climbing, soaring demand for limited affordable housing, alongside government cuts to benefits and services, things are set to get worse. What are you doing to ensure that this trend is reversed, and fast?

• Reference: 2012/0892
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

I refer to your answer to 692/2012. Are you aware that the offensive advertisements promoting the Channel 4 programme 'My Big Fat Gyspy Wedding' are on display on the Underground network? Will you instruct Transport for London to remove them?

• Reference: 2012/0891
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Will you join me in condemning Barnet Council with their abusing of parking charges in East Finchley as you have done so rightly with the City of Westminster Council?

• Reference: 2012/0890
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Why do you think your London Waste & Recycling Board (LWaRB) appears to be doing a lot more on recycling than investing in new technology in London's waste infrastructure?

• Reference: 2012/0889
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Now that there will not be a third runway at Heathrow, will you join me in calling for BAA to sell its' houses in the villages surrounding the airport, particularly Sipson, and move on?

• Reference: 2012/0888
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Since the launch of your no-engine idling campaign at the beginning of the year, what actual enforcement has been undertaken by the Mayor through Transport for London in comparison to what some local authorities are doing?