• Reference: 2011/3549
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Your Equal Life Chances for all Strategy States 'We will ensure that all formal decisions are assessed for their impact on equality, inclusion and community cohesion and that an appropriate equality impact assessment or integrated impact assessment is carried out on all strategies, policies and appropriate programmes' Could you please highlight the correct answer to the following question Question: Have you carried out an Equality Impact Assessment on your decision to raise fares in 2012? Answer: Yes / No

• Reference: 2011/3548
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

At a recent conference organised by Hackney Unite and organisations representing Hackney's Unemployed workers, which you unfortunately had to give your apologies for, there was a significant feeling of frustration at the service offered by Job Centre Plus. What meetings have you had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions making the case for Londoners to ensure that they are being offered the very best support and advice while they navigate the extremely stressful and complex routes back to work?

• Reference: 2011/3547
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Since September 27th 2010 my constituent Angela Dobson who is wheelchair bound has had cause to complain to TfL about a variety of access issues on London's buses on one hundred and fifty four separate occasions. Her complaints include but are not limited to: buses driving past her at the bus stop, drivers refusing to ask buggies to fold and ramps not working. Can you please answer the two following questions 1) Do you feel when one individual has cause to complain 154 times in just over a year that you are providing an adequate service to London's mobility impaired...

• Reference: 2011/3546
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Your Answer to question 2985/2011 was most unsatisfactory. May I remind you of the pledge you gave in your Equal Life Chances for All Londoners- Gender Equality (May 2010) Document which states 'The GLA will develop a more interactive engagement with women via its new website' Will you commit to posting the agenda and papers for the Violence Against Women and Girls Panel on the GLA website so that their work can be directly shared with all Londoners, particularly London's women?

• Reference: 2011/3545
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

You wrote to me on 26th Oct regarding Leyton Orient fans petition which asks you to reconsider you support of the West Ham bid for the Olympic stadium. In that letter you state 'I am not in a position to make any response to issues relating to the Olympic Stadium and the process for finding tenants for it.' The fans of Leyton Orient find this disingenuous to say the least, as you have been quite vocal on the subject to date, recently stating in the press "We will effectively rent [the Olympic Stadium] to a football club, almost certainly West...

• Reference: 2011/3544
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

I am very pleased to see the work that Deputy Mayor Richard Barnes has been undertaking, stressing the importance of Debt Advice Services through the London Debt Strategy Group. This issue is more serious and urgent than ever with more people in arrears with their debts in London than in any other region in the UK. I'm sure we are agreed that protecting the most vulnerable and desperate in our society from predatory lending practices must be a priority for London's Mayor Last year, free travel on London's tube was sponsored by a payday loan company in exchange for advertising...

• Reference: 2011/3543
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Can you provide data by borough and bedroom size of the average rents in both cost (a) per week and as (b) a proportion of market rent for homes to be completed with funding from allocations made to date from the 2011-15 London HCA affordable rent programme?

• Reference: 2011/3542
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Can you demonstrate that the average rent for the 2011-15 affordable rent programme in London will be at or below 65% of market rent in line with your stated policy intentions?

• Reference: 2011/3541
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Can you confirm that any proposed amendment to the London Plan relating to affordable housing definitions and targets will retain a target for social rented homes at target rents based on evidence from the 2009 Strategic Housing Market assessment or an update of that assessment?

• Reference: 2011/3540
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

When will the London Development Panel be operational and with what budget?