• Reference: 2007/2886
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

A constituent who owns a joinery shop in South London is keen to provide joinery apprenticeships. However, they have not been able to find local colleges providing suitable courses to work with. How can your forthcoming skills strategy address this lack of courses?

• Reference: 2007/2885
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Suffolk Estate Tenant Management Organisation manages a council estate in Hackney and wants to implement energy efficiency measures identified by consultants. What funding is available to housing estates seeking to introduce ambitious energy efficiency measures?

• Reference: 2007/2884
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Following your answer to my Question 2264/2007, in which you state that the ODA has agreed to work with the Celia Hammond Animal Trust to safely capture cats found on the Olympics site, why is the ODA now refusing to co-operate with the Celia Hammond Trust?

• Reference: 2007/2883
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What representations have you and TfL made regarding the appalling lack of cycle facilities at the re-opened flagship St Pancras Station?

• Reference: 2007/2882
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Given the high cost of living in the capital and the financial hardship faced by many students, will you make representations pushing for the introduction of discounted train fares for students over 18 studying in London, especially as the Young Persons Rail Card does not reduce the cost of Travel cards or Season Tickets for young persons?

• Reference: 2007/2881
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

In response to my question 1243 in June 2007, regarding HIV Prevention services in London, you promised to raise the issue "more formally with NHS London should current attempts to resolve the problem fail to do so". Given that these issues have not been satisfactorily resolved and that the planned pan-London re-organisation will result in major cuts, will you now raise the matter more formally with the NHS?

• Reference: 2007/2880
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Will you launch an investigation into how Angel Cottage, a Grade II listed building on the edge of the Olympic site in Stratford, has been lost, apparently as a result of builders demolishing the wrong building "by mistake"?

• Reference: 2007/2879
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What is being done to remedy the lack of facilities for the sale and top-up of Oyster cards in East London in general, and at many DLR stations in particular?

• Reference: 2007/2878
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Are you still totally committed to the completion of the LCN+ by 2010? Have you costed the '140 barriers to completion'?

• Reference: 2007/2877
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Will you commit, no later than your budget for 2008-09, the final £100 million necessary to deliver Phase 2 of the East London Line extension, thereby enabling the 'outer circle' rail link around inner London to be completed before 2012?