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• Reference: 2015/3751
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

What changes do you anticipate to the London Plan or other planning guidance as a result of your new action plan to help tackle flooding risks in London?

• Reference: 2015/3301
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

How will you be taking forward the Government's recent announcement to enable the delivery of Starter Homes in London?

• Reference: 2015/0402
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

In December you visited The Institute of Cancer Research in Belmont, where you made clear that you strongly supported the plans to expand to become the second biggest campus of its kind in the world. What effect will these plans have on the business case for the Sutton Tram Extension?

• Reference: 2014/2582
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

The provision of cultural opportunities in London’s outer boroughs and the improvement of the accessibility to London’s cultural workforce were two priorities in the Mayor’s 2010 Cultural Strategy. What progress have you made since then, and what are the future goals, for both priorities?

• Reference: 2014/2583
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

Why did you choose to update rather than replace or revise Cultural Metropolis? Can we expect further policy developments before the Mayoral election in 2016?

• Reference: 2014/2584
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What has been the cultural legacy of the Olympics and what efforts has the GLA made to help build a cultural legacy since the Olympics?

• Reference: 2014/2585
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What are you doing to help safeguard the future of live music venues, of varying sizes, in the capital?

• Reference: 2013/0005-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

What do you perceive will be the impact on London of housing related welfare reforms - including linking the uprating of Local Housing Allowance to the Consumer Price Index rather than rent inflation and introducing under-occupation penalties - given London's existing shortages of affordable rented accommodation and overcrowding problems?

• Reference: 2013/0006-1
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

London is about to experience the largest change to the welfare system since the 1940's, due to take effect on 1 April. These changes include the overall benefit cap, uprating Local Housing Allowance by CPI, bedroom tax (under-occupancy penalties), localisation of the discretionary social fund, localisation of council tax benefit, and replacement of Disability Allowance with the Personal Independence Payment. Can you provide a very general picture of the impact these changes will have on the people of London?

• Reference: 2013/0007-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

There have already been many significant and cross-cutting changes to the welfare system, and there are even bigger changes planned for the coming year. Is there adequate monitoring and publicly available information about the cumulative impacts on Londoners, councils and support agencies?