• Reference: 2011/0394
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Why do you not defend art institutions and artists as publicly and vigorously as you do bankers?

• Reference: 2011/0393
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Given Cultural Strategy Officers of this authority are steering campaigns to 'Save the Arts' via the Visual Arts London network what conversations have you had with central government along this theme? Please list any meetings with Ministers or officials of the Treasury, Number 10, DCLG or DCMS where you have urged them to minimise funding cuts to Arts bodies in the London region.

• Reference: 2011/0392
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Is London's mean income level a good indicator of the city's economic health and, if so, why?

• Reference: 2011/0391
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

As you are aware, the UK's corporation tax levelled on company profits ranges between 21%-28% (the government will soon reduce this to 20%-27%). What is the average rate of corporation tax paid by London's banks?

• Reference: 2011/0390
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Since he arrived at City Hall in 2009 the Chief Executive has moved office three times. Please provide me with a full cost breakdown of the moves, including labour costs, work hours employed, cost of fixtures and fittings, and costs of furniture.

• Reference: 2011/0389
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Do companies (particularly banks) continue to locate their offices in London because we have the lowest headline and effective rates of corporation tax in our history and, if so, why do you maintain that London's 'tax environment' is uncompetitive?

• Reference: 2011/0388
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Given your recent comments on the 50p tax rate, are you aware of the net monthly income (assuming no deductions) of a Londoner earning exactly £150,000 per year?

• Reference: 2011/0384
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Does the concept of 'marginal propensity to consume' indicate that London's economy would be better served by lower levels of income inequality?

• Reference: 2011/0383
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

On 5 January, you were quoted in an Evening Standard article entitled 'Scrap 50p tax, help the City, save 'banker tossers' — Boris Johnson lets rip' as saying 'Why do we need to rebalance London's economy? Financial services grew because we were very successful at them'. Did the abolition of exchange rate controls and bank capitalisation rates under the Thatcher Government have anything to do with the growth of financial services in London and is the not a classic example of 'picking winners' that, according to you, free marketers should never engage in?

• Reference: 2011/0382
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

On 5 January, you were quoted in an Evening Standard article entitled 'Scrap 50p tax, help the City, save 'banker tossers' — Boris Johnson lets rip' as saying 'George [Osborne] has got a very difficult balance to strike ... He's got a massive fiscal problem'. With the largest tax gap in the nation's history, at over £100 billion per year (almost equivalent to the entire structural deficit) are you concerned about the impact on London of the Chancellor's focus almost entirely on spending cuts to rebalance the nation's finances instead of capturing evaded taxes and introducing anti-avoidance legislation?