• Reference: 2010/3988
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

In answer to my question 652/2010 you stated that a total of £60m would be required to deliver your Electric Vehicle Delivery Plan. Can you provide an update of what finance has been secured (a) up to the end of 2011/12 and (b) for the years 2012/13 to 2014/15, and tell me what you aim to get from other sources?

• Reference: 2010/3987
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Would the lack of Government funding for an extended vehicle scrappage scheme be a major barrier to you going ahead with a very low emission zone covering central London?

• Reference: 2010/3986
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Can you provide a breakdown of the increased resources which will be provided by Transport for London and the London Boroughs, as a result of your Air Quality Strategy, to stop black cabs from idling at the approximately 500 taxi ranks in the capital?

• Reference: 2010/3985
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Will you undertake to test a random sample of 300 black cabs using the pollution reduction devices approved by Transport for London, in order to reassure Londoners that these devices are working? This test should include emissions produced in real life conditions, such as accelerating under load. It should also check the cabs against the standards set by the Energy Savings Trust when they approved the use of these devices.

• Reference: 2010/3984
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Do you agree that, in general, polluting companies should pay for the clean-up rather than the taxpayer?

• Reference: 2010/3983
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

In your capacity as Mayor and a member of the Olympic Board, can you confirm the anticipated total lifetime costs for cleaning up the dense plume formed by chlorinated solvents that is reported to have leaked out of the facility that was previously occupied by the Banner Chemicals Group? A Freedom of Information request revealed that the ODA has already spent £12.7 million on this particular clean-up operation.

• Reference: 2010/3982
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

In your capacity as Mayor and a member of the Olympic Board, can you tell me if there was a clause in the agreement between the Banner Chemicals Group and the London Development Agency or the Olympic Delivery Authority regarding the company's responsibility to pay for the clean up of any chemical waste? If there was, can you tell me what responsibilities the company agreed to?

• Reference: 2010/3981
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Please can you provide figures on the secured funding for each of the four London rape crisis centres in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13? Please indicate which funding is provided by the GLA, which provided by the boroughs, and which by any other funders.

• Reference: 2010/3980
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Since July 2010, how many applications have been received for protests in Parliament Square? How many of those applications have been a) authorised to protest in Parliament Square, b) authorised to protest in another location and c) rejected?

• Reference: 2010/3979
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

When will the Parliament Square gardens be re-opened to the public?