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  • Tackling Child Poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I think this is a fantastically important matter, and I suppose the problem I have with Dee Doocey's question is that it's very easy to try to put a number on this and say that £4 billion will solve the problem. I think we all know that out there there's a scepticism in the wider public that we are spending more on public services. I'd like more to be spent on my constituency in East London. People are asking whether we are getting sufficient value out of it, whether our services are sufficiently functional and so on, so clearly, there...
  • Funding Poverty Alleviation, Including EU Structural Funds (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I would like to take a slightly less negative approach than the UK Independence Party (UKIP) on this issue. The ability of EU funds to transform other areas of Europe where there is experience of poverty has been quite significant, and, given that there are areas of considerable poverty within London, and you may not be able to answer this, but can you think of examples of good practice elsewhere and has, for example, the Child Poverty Action Group, looked at examples of good practice in other European states which could be echoed and mirrored and copied and stolen to...
  • Performance Bonus

    • Reference: 2003/0152
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    What were the performance targets by which your bonus for last year was to be assessed? When were these agreed? Were they challenging? And did you achieve them? .
  • Bus Contract Costs

    • Reference: 2003/0157
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    What advice have you given the TfL Board and its Chairman on the sustainability of bus contract costs? .
  • Bus Services

    • Reference: 2003/0175
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    Can the Mayor confirm which of the enhancements to bus services which have been proposed by TfL for early 2003 have been introduced and provide the dates at which those improvements which have not yet been made will be introduced ? .
  • Changes to PPP Contracts

    • Reference: 2003/0183
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    What changes do you want to make to the PPP contracts? .
  • Fares

    • Reference: 2003/0184
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    Are Underground fares too high compared to bus fares and is this a problem for London? .