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• Reference: 2005/0313-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The principal, major transport improvements expected before 2012 include: the completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to St Pancras; north and south extensions and upgrades to the East London Line; longer trains, and extensions to the Docklands Light Railway; significant improvements to the transport hubs at Kings Cross/St Pancras and Stratford and the building of the West London tram. The successful bid also means that capacity on the North London Line will be greatly improved. Can you confirm that all these things will occur before 2012?

• Reference: 2005/0314-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Tessa Jowell has conceded that the security bill is likely to increase. Who will pay for it?

• Reference: 2005/0316-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The Big Lottery Fund, which distributes lottery money, has predicted that grants to causes such as health, education, environmental and volunteer programmes could be reduced by £68m over the next four years, as lottery players switch to the heavily marketed Olympic-themed game. Could this Olympic lottery simply divert monies from other causes - including local sporting developments of which much is made in current lottery propaganda?

• Reference: 2005/0317-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Building Design was obliged to obtain information about project funding under Freedom of Information legislation. We too are obliged to resort to FoI on the Olympic opinion polling. We are still chasing the information which was denied to us on grounds that giving it to us would affect public perception of opinion polling. Appreciating that the London Assembly has no role in the Olympic Games and is not even mentioned in the London Olympics Bill, can the Mayor explain who is to have the job of even the most rudeimentary form of scrutiny, looking after London's interests and avoiding the...

• Reference: 2005/0318-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

In Singapore, in the final stages of the bidding process, Sebastian Coe promised immediate gains for sport in the UK if London were to be successful. Can these now be quantified?

• Reference: 2005/0375-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How has the Olympic decision affected plans for Crystal Palace Park and Sports Centre, what are your views of the plans and proposals about to be published by the LDA?

• Reference: 2005/0320-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The strict provisions in the London Olympics Bill to prevent so-called ambush marketing could make it illegal for a local hotel to advertise rooms for the London Olympics' or a swimwear company to advertise its summer 2012 collection. This is to benefit the profits made by the IOC. Can you confirm whether this is in fact the case, and what is being done to prevent the damage to business locally and nationally in that event?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Looking at it in a more positive way, rather than a negative descriptive way, do you think that the Assembly's work and our own work not just on committees but as individual constituency Members could actually benefit sometimes from taking a more cohesive look at how to promote equality and have a more balanced outreach programme in relating to Londoners in all their diversity? The point I am putting to you is that we seem to be very well developed on the core GLA side and much less systematic in terms of promoting equalities through our outreach work on the...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Since the Assembly costs Londoners £8 million, do you think that significant resource should be subject to some sort of equalities review?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

As I think we would all agree, you said there is actually quite a tight mechanism of control in place not just for charity events but for a whole range of bookings and use of facilities at City Hall when they essentially involve a mayoral mandate or a mayoral activity. The GLA Act does give all of us, including the Assembly, some imperative to seek to promote equality of opportunity in London. How do you therefore compare the Assembly's relative lack of control in terms of our activity with not-for-profit organisations and the voluntary sector and your own activity? Do...