• Reference: 2011/3030
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

It has been reported that Bromley council will have overspent its temporary accommodation budget by £305k this year, with officers 'inundated' by casework and their lease providers 'experiencing immense difficulty in acquiring properties from the private sector' that fit within the benefit caps. The minor concessions on the housing benefit reforms you have lobbied for won't be enough to deal with this problem. Will you urgently raise this matter with the Government and lead a delegation of boroughs to win adequate concessions?

• Reference: 2011/3028
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Can you provide a borough by borough breakdown of committed funds from Transport for London, boroughs and other sources for the westward expansion of the bike hire scheme? Where any of these depend on match funding, can you please indicate that?

• Reference: 2011/3027
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you for your answer to my question 1676/2011 on the cycle hire critical improvement plan. Can you please provide me with a copy of the plan?

• Reference: 2011/3026
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Given that cycle hire raised £2.3m in 2010/11, do you still believe it can raise £18m in 2011/12 (as outlined in answer 3678/2010)? Have TfL now revised their October 2009 estimate that the scheme would "break even" within three years of its launch?

• Reference: 2011/3025
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

What are the total estimated costs for implementing and running stages 1 and 2 of the cycle hire scheme until the end of March 2013? How much of this has been funded directly by Transport for London?

• Reference: 2011/3024
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

What is Transport for London's estimate of the total number of extra cycle trips that will be generated per year, once cycle hire has expanded westwards as outlined in your press release of 28th July 2011?

• Reference: 2011/3022
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you for your answer to my question 2400/2011. Can you assure me that in changing the TLRN/SRN layouts to include cycling you will include redesigning the whole of the road without being artificially limited by existing kerb lines?

• Reference: 2011/3021
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

What are the exceptional criteria for Transport for London staff claiming car journey allowances when travelling less than a mile? How many such trips were claimed for last year?

• Reference: 2011/3019
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Why are drivers reimbursed 40p/mile whilst cyclists only receive 12p/mile for their journeys? Will you pay both equally in order to end this incentive to drive?

• Reference: 2011/3018
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Are claims for car miles rejected where trips could have been made by either public transport, cycling or walking? Who is responsible for signing off these claims?