• Reference: 2011/2766
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Can you give me an update of spend and outputs of your £15.5million Sports Fund to get Londoners participating in sporting activities?

• Reference: 2011/2765
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

How it is possible to have the Schools Olympics 2012 with its national competition in the Olympic Park when London's very own and successful annual Youth Games will not given this privilege at all?

• Reference: 2011/2764
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

With the Battersea Power Station site worth far less than the debt, it is worth supporting it with your transport infrastructure proposals?

• Reference: 2011/2763
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

In a previous response to me, you stated you were "reinforcing to Ministers the need to protect the 'exceptional funding' received by HE institutions with a world class reputation for the arts and music". Please may we have an update on your progress, and as to how Ministers will be protecting this 'exceptional funding', as already the threat of high fees begins to affect young people's decisions in regard to the next academic year.

• Reference: 2011/2762
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

In answer to Written Question 1568/2011, you stated that 'the total cost of contracts after articulated bus removal is actually lower by £275,000 per annum than before with the articulated buses'. This is a significant saving; can you provide me with a detailed break-down of this figure?

• Reference: 2011/2761
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

The Evening Standard's Anthony Hilton reported on 5 July that 'the Greater London Authority is about to raise £600 million to help pay its share of the construction costs of Crossrail through the bond market' and that 'a special-purpose vehicle will issue the bonds and then re-lend the money to the GLA'. Who will be setting up this special purpose vehicle on behalf of the GLA and what will annual cost to the GLA be?

• Reference: 2011/2760
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

The Evening Standard's Anthony Hilton reported on 5 July that 'the Greater London Authority is about to raise £600 million to help pay its share of the construction costs of Crossrail through the bond markets'. If this is correct, how long will it take for the bonds to come to maturity once purchased?

• Reference: 2011/2759
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

The Evening Standard's Anthony Hilton reported on 5 July that 'the Greater London Authority is about to raise £600 million to help pay its share of the construction costs of Crossrail through the bond markets'. If this is correct, what rate of return have bondholders been guaranteed?

• Reference: 2011/2758
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

The Evening Standard's Anthony Hilton reported on 5 July that 'the Greater London Authority is about to raise £600 million to help pay its share of the construction costs of Crossrail through the bond markets'. If this is correct, why were Londoners not notified in advance that this huge financial commitment was about to undertaken by them going forward?

• Reference: 2011/2757
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

The Evening Standard's Anthony Hilton reported on 5 July that 'the Greater London Authority is about to raise £600 million to help pay its share of the construction costs of Crossrail through the bond markets'. Is this correct and, if so, who made the decision to issue these bonds and when?