• Reference: 2010/3830
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Have you investigated the viability of Visit London being funded by the hospitality and tourism industries in London, and for the LDA's Business Support projects to be funded by business groups?

• Reference: 2010/3821
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

In Mayoral Direction 673, you state that £680k is being removed from the GLA's £15.5m sports budget and will instead be spent on LDA sports projects. Please provide details of the sports projects that will be run by the LDA? Please outline which of the GLA's sports funding streams will be reduced e.g. facilities funding?

• Reference: 2010/3820
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

How much of the GLA's £15.5m sports budget has already been allocated? Please indicate which projects have had funding confirmed, and how much has been allocated for each project?

• Reference: 2010/3810
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Does the Mayor agree that the GLA should transfer all of the LDA's land assets to benefit Londoners, rather than them being returned to the Government? What is the GLA doing to ensure this happens?

• Reference: 2010/3790
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

What was your understanding of the current government's plans for the LDA prior to the general election?

• Reference: 2010/3758
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

In previous answers you advised firstly that TfL has ploughed £1,356,110 into providing electric charging points in London boroughs, but that TfL does not collate how many users are registered to use them. Can you please confirm that you have spent over £1.3 million pounds on a scheme that you have no idea of how many people are usig it and what records you do indeed have of the uptake of the scheme?

• Reference: 2010/3748
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

TfL require PHVs to undergo two MOTs per year, so their vehicle emissions are tested every six months. However, TfL requires black cabs to have their emissions tested to MOT standard just once a year. Can you please explain how this is equitable? In the pursuit of both fairness and improved air quality for London, what do you think should be done to end this discrepancy?

• Reference: 2010/3740
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Following the announcement that the GLA is to lose its economic development budget from 2012, what are the projected job losses at the LDA, including at those bodies such as Visit London and Film that the LDA funds and any LDA-funded posts at the GLA?

• Reference: 2010/3738
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Having now been informed that the GLA will have a vastly reduced economic development budget the coming years (£56million in 2011; £12million in 2012) and, after 2012, will no longer have any economic development function, what is the purpose of your Economic Development Strategy for London?

• Reference: 2010/3727
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

As the LDA is to cease to exist and has had its funding slashed are you able to maintain current youth programmes funded by the Agency?