• Reference: 2011/1181
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

On what basis did you decide to locate your 'Cycling Superhighways'?

• Reference: 2011/1180
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Was there a full tender process for sponsorship of the cycle hire scheme and, if so, please explain to me how it worked?

• Reference: 2011/1179
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

What progress has been made during your mayoralty on the provision of a new river crossing east of Tower Bridge?

• Reference: 2011/1178
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Can you please provide me with a full breakdown of who you have met with to discuss the prospect of new river crossings east of Tower Bridge over the previous twelve months?

• Reference: 2011/1177
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

What is the estimated cost of the cross-river cable car and what financial contribution do you expect the private sector to make to it?

• Reference: 2011/1176
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Can you please provide me with data pertaining to the enforcement of 'Red Route' regulations in Greenwich and Lewisham over the previous twelve months.

• Reference: 2011/1175
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Writing in his 'City Hall Comment' column in City A.M on 10 January 2011, your economic policy adviser, Anthony Browne, wrote - ironically - that 'London would be a better place if we weren't the financial capital of the world' as 'bonuses would no longer make you green with envy'. Do you and your advisers honestly believe that the British public's desire to see the financial service industry pay the consequences for a crisis it created as driven not by a sense of righteous injustice but by 'envy'?

• Reference: 2011/1174
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Since 2008, National Debt has increased sharply because of the trillion pound banking bailout and because of lower tax receipts and higher spending on unemployment benefits as a result of the financial services industry-induced economic downturn. Why, then, have you sought to characterise the current recession as a product of excessive public spending?

• Reference: 2011/1173
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In answer to Question No: 559/2011 you stated that 'the previous government ... went on a spending spree that ... was completely unsustainable'. Are you aware that, for every year between 1997 and 2007 (the year the financial crisis struck) the UK's national debt as a proportion of GDP was lower than what the government inherited in 1997?

• Reference: 2011/1172
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In answer to Question No: 557/2011, you stated that 'the problem is that there are too many Londoners who are not sharing in the city's success'. What policies have you put in place since becoming Mayor to even marginally rectify the problem of low social mobility in London and can you quantify the outcomes of these policies?