• Reference: 2011/0077-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Dee Doocey (Chair): Simon, you wanted to make an opening statement. Thank you very much for coming along.

• Reference: 2011/0076-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Simon, you wanted to make an opening statement. Thank you very much for coming along.

• Reference: 2011/0075-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Dee Doocey (Chair): Can I formally welcome Baroness Ford and Andrew Altman to the meeting. Baroness Ford is the Chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) and Andrew Altman is the Chief Executive. Thank you very much for coming. If I could explain how the session is going to work; I understand that Margaret and Andrew are going to give a five minute opening statement. I will then ask a Member from each Group to put a question in the following order: the Labour Group, followed by the Liberal Democrat Group, followed by the Conservative Group, followed by the...

• Reference: 2011/1188
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

What effect will the disbanding of the youth justice board and cuts to the early intervention grant have on levels of youth offending in London?

• Reference: 2011/1187
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

What are the resources implications for the MPS on the transfer of responsibility for covert police operations from ACPO's National Public Order Intelligence Unit to the Met?

• Reference: 2011/1186
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

I have been asked to submit this question by a constituent of mine. How can the mayor sit back and let millions of pounds of tax payer money go to waste. Even if they get planning permission it will waste another 20 million of tax payers' money. English heritage has recently regarded the site as an "Historical asset in totality " of east London, so how does the mayor allow a part funded rsl to land bank, as the current owners have for three years, while there is a private buyer who wishes to purchase the site and create over...

• Reference: 2011/1185
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

I have been asked to submit this question by a constituent. I regularly work in and travel through Lambeth and Southwark, and I mostly travel by bicycle. Between many Inner (and Outer) London locations it is faster to travel by bicycle than public transport. Seeing as the public transport network is overcrowded and the Mayor is trying to increase bicycle use, why does the TfL journey planner require you to specifically ask for the route and journey-time by bicycle. Surely if this came up automatically as part of the default search it would make the potential benefits of bicycle travel...

• Reference: 2011/1184
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In answer to Question No: 559/2011 you agreed with you economics adviser Anthony Browne that one of the reasons for the 'financial crisis, subsequent recession and the necessary fiscal retrenchment' was "politicians forcing banks to lend to causes that were morally worthy but not creditworthy". Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's recent account of the financial services meltdown, Freefall, he describes this view as 'sheer nonsense'. What significant examples can you provide of "politicians forcing banks to lend to causes that were morally worthy but not creditworthy" as evidence that such actions were contributory factors in the creation of the economic...

• Reference: 2011/1183
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Over the previous twelve months, what work has the GLA undertaken with the private sector to push forward the redevelopment of Convoy's Wharf, Deptford?

• Reference: 2011/1182
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Since the sponsorship deal for the cycle hire scheme was largely unprecedented, did you receive independent guidance on the likely revenue raising potential of advertising on the scheme and, if so, what was the estimate?