• Reference: 2011/0927
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Further to the European Commission granting a time extension for Greater London to meet the EU limit values for PM10, (i) what short-term measures does your final Air Quality Strategy include; and (ii) what 'short-term measures' to 'control, or, where necessary, suspend activities which contribute to the risk of the limit values being exceeded' are you going to put in place by 11 June 2011 to ensure that the PM10 daily limit value is not exceeded after the exemption period?

• Reference: 2011/0926
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Will City Hall, and other parts of the GLA family, be supporting Earth Hour on 26 March 2011?

• Reference: 2011/0924
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

With the transfer of the housingmoves service to the GLA from the Department for Communities and Local Government on 1 April 2011, what are your objectives for the service in 2011/12? Will you aim for it to complete more moves through the Seaside and Country Homes Scheme?

• Reference: 2011/0922
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Are you disappointed that a year after launching the London Housing and Property Company at MIPIM the company has yet to be set up?

• Reference: 2011/0921
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

When will your London Housing Taskforce be reporting and how will you take forward its proposals and in what timeframe?

• Reference: 2011/0920
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Do you agree that businesses and developments in areas such as Maidenhead and Slough should be required to contribute towards the costs of Crossrail through charges such as the CIL, as they are just as likely to benefit from it as adjoining areas in London?

• Reference: 2011/0919
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Concerns have been expressed about the potential impact of your CIL charges on the ability of London boroughs to raise funds for local infrastructure. When setting your CIL rates will you work alongside boroughs to take account of the full range of costs associated with development including existing borough S106 requirements and locally set CIL rates?

• Reference: 2011/0918
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Your Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule for a CIL anticipates that the proposed rates of CIL will achieve the target of raising £300m for Crossrail by 2019. Will you consider charging lower rates of CIL, over a longer period, and so have less impact on the economic viability of development in London?

• Reference: 2011/0917
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Do you agree with the charity Empty Homes that the Community Right to Reclaim powers should also apply to government departments and other public bodies that own empty property and land, such as the Homes and Communities Agency, Defence Estates, NHS, and Housing Associations?

• Reference: 2011/0916
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Further to the announcement by Grant Shapps of the Community Right to Reclaim, are the LDA, MPA and LFEPA compiling lists of empty land and buildings to add to the new 'user-friendly website' which the government is planning to launch by the end of May 2011 to allow the public easier and more transparent access to information about public sector land and property?