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• Reference: 2012/3894
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Do you support the government's recent decision to examine measures to cap payday loans and give the Financial Conduct Authority powers to regulate lenders? And, given that Londoners are statistically more likely to be in debt arrears as a result of resorting to payday loans, will you co-ordinate an investigation into the extent of payday loan use in London and an examination of alternative lending or grant schemes?

• Reference: 2012/3895
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Recent figures on the Work Programme indicate that it is failing to match up to the DWP's targets and that providers in London are also underperforming. Will you suggest that the London Enterprise Panel's Skill and Employment Working Group examines the operation of the Work Programme as a means to help the long term unemployed into work, its pros and cons and its effectiveness in London?

• Reference: 2012/3896
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please provide details of all of the organisations who have purchased advertising space: a) on Underground rolling stock; b) at TfL managed stations; c) on Overground rolling stock; d) on London Buses. e) at Bus shelters

• Reference: 2012/3897
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Will you now publish your definition of what constitutes a 'job' in the context of your election pledge to create 200,000 new jobs?

• Reference: 2012/3898
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Further to your response to MQ 3391/2012, please elaborate on the work you have carried out to improve the take up of the Living Wage in the retail sector. What meetings have you held with major retailers (for example Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Morrisons, the Co-Operative Group, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis)? Will you publish any relevant correspondence?

• Reference: 2012/3899
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Given your responsibilities for improving public health, are you in favour of plain cigarette packaging?

• Reference: 2012/3900
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Has the Mayor had any discussions with the clinicians behind the Shaping a Healthier Future plans about the impact that new homes proposed to be built in Earls Court ward and Seagrave Road will have on the new NHS service model?

• Reference: 2012/3901
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Are you concerned that the Shaping Healthier Future proposals to close A&E units in North West London may increase ambulance response times?

• Reference: 2012/3902
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Will you seek assurances from the London Health Improvement Board that they will assess the effectiveness of Urgent Care Centres compared to A&E services?

• Reference: 2012/3903
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

The Shaping a Healthier Future Business case sets out plans to reduce the number of NHS beds by 3449 by 2015. The greatest proportion of these will be in the hospitals that are being expected to pick up the extra emergency caseload from the hospitals that are losing their A and E departments. Do you agree this will have a damaging effect on patient care in this area of London?