• Reference: 2008/1431
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Did you use the money that you are saving by closing the Caracas office to cover the £60K gap in funding caused by the withdrawal in funding by the unions? If not, how was this year's festival funded?

• Reference: 2008/1430
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Will any of the £67,000 a year that you are saving by closing the Caracas office be invested on reducing fares for London's poorest? If not, what are you planning to spend the money on?

• Reference: 2008/1429
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Last month you announced that you are scrapping the oil deal with Venezuela and half price travel for the more than 80,000 Londoners on income support benefiting from it. You were quoted as saying 'I simply think there are better ways of benefiting Londoners and better ways of benefiting Venezuelans.' Can you give us an indication of what those better ways might be?

• Reference: 2008/1428
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Is the City Charter worth the paper it is written on?

• Reference: 2008/1427
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Will you be happy for the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit to continue to hold its meetings in City Hall? And will you honour the previous Mayor's commitment to the (formerly) Clays Lane travellers for a post Olympic move if requested into a site in the legacy park?

• Reference: 2008/1426
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

In launching your £6m parks and green spaces package are you abandoning the previous Mayor's 100 public squares project? Or will this continue?

• Reference: 2008/1425
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

In welcoming the reduction in child road deaths and serious injuries do you commit yourself to the same policies as your predecessor in this area? If not, which ones will you drop?

• Reference: 2008/1424
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

In referring to your consent order of 13th May would it not have been clearer English to refer to this also as the reversal of the policy to charge a higher congestion charge for gas-guzzlers with high emissions? Should you not at the same time as making this order have issued an apology to those Londoners, particularly the young and old, with respiratory difficulties whose health is adversely affected by the emissions of these vehicles? Will you publish the advice you took in reaching this decision given that clearly it must have rebutted each of the reasons used by your...

• Reference: 2008/1423
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Where was Richard Barnes Homeland Defence speaking engagement referred to in your report?

• Reference: 2008/1422
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Is your approach to the job a triumph of spin over substance?