• Reference: 2008/0849
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

What steps are you taking to ensure that rail services in South London are improved for commuters?

• Reference: 2008/0847
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Why were no Assembly Members included in your Forensic Audit Panel which will conduct an investigation of the London Development Agency, given your desire to be an inclusive Mayor?

• Reference: 2008/0846
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Your campaign website outlined 'Payback London', whereby young people under 18 who abuse their right to free travel can earn it back by carrying out community service. Who will run this initiative, how will it operate, and how much will it cost?

• Reference: 2008/0845
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Your campaign website promised that you would hold biannual summits with business representatives. How will you ensure that you engage with the thousands of small businesses in London, rather than just established member organisations?

• Reference: 2008/0844
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Your manifesto stated that: "We propose to lower the threshold at which GLA expenditure to suppliers must be reported, from £4,000 to £1,000." Will you also commit to a) Showing the reason for each of these payments not just who they are paid to b) Breaking down the total payment to an organisation into each separate payment for each separate contract or grant payment

• Reference: 2008/0843
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

According to your campaign website you will: "Enable Londoners to view all GLA grants, contracts and programmes worth over £1,000 on the Mayor's website." Will you commit to covering the LDA, as well as the GLA, under this scheme?

• Reference: 2008/0842
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Your manifesto stated that: "We will launch an immediate review of City Hall finances, which will look at every aspect of Mayoral spending - including all schemes and programmes - and will investigate why running costs have inflated over the last 8 years. The review will be conducted independently, and will be set up within the first 100 days." Could you please: a) State the exact date the review was or will be launched and when it is expected to report b) Give an estimate of the cost of the review d) Give, for public record, a comprehensive list of...

• Reference: 2008/0841
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

According to your campaign website: "I will make City Hall more accountable. Information about Mayoral advisors will be available on the web with their contact details and their register of interests will also be available online." Can you please state which staff will come under the 'advisor' designation? Will it be only those appointed under the Greater London Authority Act s67(1) (b) and s67(1) (a)? Will your non-statutory 'Deputy Mayors' be subject to these policies? And will the register of interests referred to be GLA group wide, or only interests relating to the core GLA?

• Reference: 2008/0840
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

Do you agree that a clear and simple system for crime reporting non-emergency crime in London is essential? In the past people contacted their local police station but there is now uncertainty about how to report non-emergency, but still serious, crimes. What should be done to ensure Londoners know how to report these crimes, and to ensure that the system is easy and quick for them to use?

• Reference: 2008/0839
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 May 2008

A constituent has complained that in the Leyton Mills area in Waltham Forest there are numerous counterfeit DVD vendors selling DVDs openly in this public place. Will you ask the Metropolitan Police what they are doing to deal with this?