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• Reference: 2002/0345-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Tuberculosis and rickets in children are on the increase in certain parts of London. What have you been doing about it? .

• Reference: 2002/0339-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you not agree that housing targets should be based on a five year rolling review programme? Planning permissions given now should not be based on optimistic assumptions on new infrastructure in the future.

• Reference: 2002/0340-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you not agree that the Mayor's projections for growth are based on trends and fail to address the risk to Londoners' quality of life? He encourages high-density developments on already cramped built up areas which will alter the character of communities throughout the capital.

• Reference: 2002/0341-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

With the Mayor's insistence that 1 in 3 homes should be for social housing, do you agree that he is rejecting the aspirations of people of all income levels to own their own homes, and that middle income households will lose out in a London divided between people in higher priced homes and those who qualify for subsidised housing? .

• Reference: 2002/0342-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What advice are you giving the Mayor about the dangers inherent in a low take-up of childhood immunisation in certain parts of London? .

• Reference: 2002/0343-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What can the Mayor's office do with regard to the ageing population of GPs and the every increasing and worrying vacancy level in GP practices? .

• Reference: 2002/0344-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Why are you and the Mayor not working with London Councils to improve their Council Housing stock to eradicate damp and unhealthy living conditions? .

• Reference: 2002/0346-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is your office working with Primary Care Trusts on the LIFT programme? .

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Neale, I was very concerned indeed when I read the London Plan, that there is no acknowledgement there of the needs that a population the size of Sheffield would have for health - for housing, yes; for education, no. Knowing as we do from our scrutiny that there is something like 40% vacancies in GP practices, and that we train 50% of GPs in London, but that they don't stay unfortunately, I'm amazed that you didn't draw this to the Mayor's attention when he was writing his London Plan. There is no mention at all, I think, in the London...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

You're right. What we have noticed when we looked at childhood immunisation was in fact the lack of tracking in new instances, in the case of trying to track people with tuberculosis and their treatment. Are you satisfied that immigrants arriving in the capital, as new residents who will stay here, are receiving adequate health screening on arrival? It's so important for their well-being that health problems are picked up early, any problems with children or adults are picked up early and addressed. And I have no confidence, in fact, that that is actually being addressed and that ongoing health...