• Reference: 2011/0381
• 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 that 'it's not so much people leaving — they're not taking their kids out of school and going to Zug — but it's firms thinking where to open an office next'. I believe J.P Morgan are due to open a new office in London. How many jobs will this create?

• Reference: 2011/0380
• 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 that you are 'can understand the comments that are made and the rage [about the financial services industry]. But we're also asking them to contribute £31 billion in tax'. The people of London or, indeed, the UK are not 'asking' the financial services industry 'contribute' anything. As a consequence of the unique resources offered by London in particular, significant revenue and profit is generated by the financial services industry. Businesses within this...

• Reference: 2011/0378
• 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 'To the banker-bashers, I say: What's your ideal economic model?'. My ideal economic model is one in which one industry (despite only employing 9% of workers in London) cannot have a destabilising effect on the broader economy. My ideal economic model is and contributes so much in tax revenue (though, nowhere near what it ought to) to the Treasury that it can literally hold a government and, therefore, the people of a...

• Reference: 2011/0377
• 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 'long-term, it is not right that an entrepreneurial city such as London should have a top tax rate higher than most of its competitors. Would you support a reduction in the top rate of tax in exchange for broad anti-tax avoidance legislation?

• Reference: 2011/0376
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

We live in the most unequal city in the industrialised world. How successful has big business in London been at 'delivering the wealth for the poor and needy'?

• Reference: 2011/0375
• 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 'my job is to create the conditions in which business can flourish. We can't make a flower grow by pulling on it'. Is expecting big business to not routinely engage in tax avoidance and evasion damaging to London's economic prospects?

• Reference: 2011/0374
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

In answer to Written Question No: 4135/2010 you informed me that, since you became Mayor in May 2008, the LDA has been responsible for the creation of 24,407 jobs. I'm sure you would agree that a job creation rate of 763 per month is a significant achievement. In light of this information, does a reduction of a minimum of 50% in the LDA's non-Olympic budget make good economic sense?

• Reference: 2011/0373
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

In answer to Written Question No: 4133/2010 you informed me that 'the proposed [2011/12 LDA] structure, if implemented, would see 241 [people] made redundant'. In answer to question 4134/2010 you also informed me that 'the estimated number of jobs within Think, Study, Visit and Film London that are directly funded by the LDA is 119'. How many of these 119 posts are under threat and are any included in the 241 figure provided in Written Answer 4133/2010?

• Reference: 2011/0372
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

Excluding Olympic spending, please provide me with a list of a projects currently being funded by the LDA to which it does not have a contractual obligation and the date on which the LDA intends to cease funding to these projects.

• Reference: 2011/0371
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2011

In answer to Written Question No: 3361/2010 you informed me that 'demand for bus services on Christmas Day is likely to be low and distributed thinly across London whereas the cost of providing services would be high. For this reason, TfL has no plans to run bus services on Christmas Day'. Has TfL ever conducted any research in to the latent demand for bus usage on Christmas Day and, if so, can you provide me with the data it compiled?