• Reference: 2008/1272
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Given your commitment to control Olympic spending, what are you doing to address the failure to deliver a costed plan of Olympic policing and wider security needs, despite a headline budget of up to £838m for Games time costs, and £800m preparation costs? Will you be seeking to make efficiency savings from this budget, once the detailed security plans are finalised?

• Reference: 2008/1271
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

In order to achieve your stated aim of delivering a significant sporting legacy from the 2012 Games, how are you responding to the concerns of the National Audit Office that the failure to finalise the legacy requirements for the venues and infrastructure on the Olympic Park could result in legacy objectives being compromised by the need to deliver the Games on time? By when will a clear legacy plan be available for each of the venues which will remain after 2012?

• Reference: 2008/1270
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Given your commitment to make it easier for London businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, to benefit Greater London Authority and Olympic contracts, what are you doing to address the failings identified on this issue by the New Economics Foundation? Will you take any specific actions in relation to the recommendations of the recent 'Fools Gold' report, including making community benefit a key criterion for all new Olympic contracts and ensuring that community facilities are transferred directly to a community development trust?

• Reference: 2008/1269
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Will the reduction of Olympic village homes, from 4,200 to 3,300, reduce the income that the LDA can earn from this development after the Games? Will this add to pressure to generate income from sales of other areas of the Olympic Park? Could this result in more Olympic Park land being sold for development after the Games?

• Reference: 2008/1268
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

What specific steps are you taking to protect the Olympic budget against the pressures being placed on it by the failure of private development partners to raise capital to invest in the Olympics village and, according to recent reports, the media centre?

• Reference: 2008/1267
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

How many people are currently employed on the Olympics sites, including sub-contractors? How many people working on the Olympics sites, including sub-contractors, are being paid below the London Living Wage?

• Reference: 2008/1266
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Does traffic reduction have a role in improving air quality and preserving the health of Londoners?

• Reference: 2008/1265
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Do you accept that the current Mayoral & Government strategy of producing cleaner vehicles is not sufficient to meet the European Union's targets for improving air quality?

• Reference: 2008/1264
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Given the urgent need to improve air quality in London, and to meet legally binding air quality targets for 2008 and 2010, will you publish a draft revised air quality strategy for consultation with the London Assembly by June 2009?

• Reference: 2008/1263
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Are you maintaining existing plans to promote technologically innovative cleaner vehicles by putting 70 hydrogen vehicles into operation in London by 2010, as set out in the London Hydrogen Partnership's Transport Action Plan? Are you retaining the target of having five per cent of all public sector fleet vehicles powered by hydrogen by 2015, or will you aim to do more?