• Reference: 2011/0843
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'As electric vehicle drivers currently have to register in every borough they charge in, the pan-London scheme will bring together the publicly accessible charge points in London into one network and will be developed in early 2011'. Is this network up and running?

• Reference: 2011/0842
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'the Mayor through TFL is aiming to work with partners to deliver AT LEAST 25,000 electric vehicle charging points by 2015". How many electric vehicle charging points are there in London currently?

• Reference: 2011/0841
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state ' the mayor's Electric Vehicle delivery Plan aims to have 1,000 electric vehicles in the GLA group fleet by 2015". How many Electric Vehicles are currently in the fleet?

• Reference: 2011/0840
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'the mayor will work with the taxi manufacturing industry to develop an affordable zero emission taxi'. Have any concrete discussions taken place to date and is 2015 a realistic timescale for reduced taxi emissions of 60%?

• Reference: 2011/0839
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell stated that the Police would not speak out against Asian sex gangs and the underage rape of white girls which had been going on for decades for fear of appearing 'institutionally racist'. Do you think the reluctance of appearing 'institutionally racist' highlighted by the former Detective Superintendent also applies to the Metropolitan Police and does the Macpherson report impede the Metropolitan Police's ability to be impartial and fair to the white community with regard to race hate crime?

• Reference: 2011/0838
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

How are employees outside of senior management involved in the management of each of the GLA group bodies? Have you sought to improve their involvement?

• Reference: 2011/0837
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Can you give me any examples where the GLA group actively addressed employers who prevent or discourage employees from being members of trade unions, and who fail to recognise trade unions, through the procurement process in the past three years?

• Reference: 2011/0836
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Does it concern you that the Department for Business Industry and Skill's latest report on trade union membership shows the level of union membership as a percentage of employees in London hitting a new low of 21.5% in 2009, down from 25.7% in 1999, now making London the least organised workforce in the UK?

• Reference: 2011/0835
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Can you tell me the amount paid to the following companies over each of the past three financial years, including 2010/11, and where applicable the amount received in sponsorship/payment by the GLA group: Vodafone, Barclays, RBS/Natwest, Google and KPMG?

• Reference: 2011/0834
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Can you also tell me whether, to your knowledge, any of the twenty contractors who received the most money from the GLA group from April 2008 to the current time (a) is a London Living Wage employer and (b) whether they have policies to restrain the difference in pay between their lowest and highest paid employees?