• Reference: 2007/2598
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Your press release which launched the London Youth Offer on 20th September 2007 said: 'The £60 million funding package will run over two years, £20 million will come from the Mayor's London Development Agency and £40 million from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.' Yet at Mayor's Question Time on 17th October 2007 you said: 'The Government is talking about £40 million per year, I'm talking about £20 million a year.' Which is it - £20 million in total or £20 million per year?

• Reference: 2007/2597
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Was the decision to award a grant of up to £4.3 million to the British Fashion Council for London Fashion Week approved by the LDA board?

• Reference: 2007/2596
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

To what extent has a race impact assessment been conducted in relation to London's use of Criminal Defence Service Direct, bearing in mind that the contract supplier employs a disproportionate amount of ex police officers who are also white and male and who could be regarded as having little or no knowledge or empathy of minority communities, women or people with disabilities?

• Reference: 2007/2595
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you think it is right that defendants are compelled to use Criminal Defence Service Direct where a conviction would amount to a loss of their "good character" and therefore the implications would be that the offence would not be seen as "minor" either by the wider community or by their employers?

• Reference: 2007/2594
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you think that the restrictions on legal advice, associated with the Legal Services Commission's new Criminal Defence Service Direct service, which is basically a call centre with staff not necessarily qualified to the highest level, are compatible with the rights to a fair trial, including independent legal advice, under Article 6 of the European Convention Human Rights?

• Reference: 2007/2593
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you agree that changes imposed by the Legal Services Commission, which will strip Londoners of their right to a duty solicitor when in police custody, are abhorrent and should scrapped immediately?

• Reference: 2007/2591
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

On behalf of a number of significant stakeholders could I ask the Mayor to urge the Chair and board of the LDA to ensure speedy implementation of the LDA's BAME Action Plan recommendations or even identify key successes?

• Reference: 2007/2590
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Will the Mayor re-confirm his previously sated commitment to the recommendations contained in the LDA BAME Action Plan launched in March 2005?

• Reference: 2007/2589
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Does the Mayor agree with me that internal restructuring of the LDA is not an acceptable reason for the loss in momentum in the delivery of " an innovative enterprise program that would `redefine' and empower London's BAME businesses and entrepreneurs"? -Quote taken from the LDA BAME Action Plan launched in March 2005.

• Reference: 2007/2588
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Could the Mayor update me on the progress of the recommendations set out in the BAME Action plan of the LDA's economic strategy. Especially those linked with committed budgets and resources?