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• Reference: 2012/3869
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

I am concerned by the recommendation in the Education Inquiry that you should support schools to redesign their buildings and to 'do more with less', essentially reconfiguring the layout of schools in order to fit in more pupils and address the shortage of school places. Do you not agree that this is a step towards 'shrinking schools', which might have inadequate space for activities outside the classroom and could threaten the inclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools? On this basis, will you reject this particular recommendation?

• Reference: 2012/3870
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

One of the recommendations of the Education Inquiry was to target apprenticeships and mentoring opportunities towards children in care and care leavers. How many apprenticeships across the GLA Group have been provided for children in care or care leavers to date?

• Reference: 2012/3871
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

One of the recommendations in the Education Inquiry was to target apprenticeships and mentoring opportunities towards children in care and care leavers. How many of the young people who have mentored through your programme to date are children in care or care leavers?

• Reference: 2012/3872
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How do you explain the decision to award the University of East London (UEL) a further £51,000 over the next financial year to train and support mentors, when they have failed dramatically to deliver on your original ambition for the establishment of 1,000 mentoring relationships over the initial three year period?

• Reference: 2012/3873
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Now that you have appointed a managing agent, Rocket Science, to administer funds and carry out evaluation of your mentoring programme, will you also direct them to monitor the elements being run by the University of East London (UEL) in order to achieve some consistency across the monitoring process?

• Reference: 2012/3874
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Further to MQ3411/2012, by when do you expect your evaluation of the Flats Recycling Programme to be complete?

• Reference: 2012/3875
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Further to MQ3726/2012, will you publish a copy of the letter you have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer - along with any response received - concerning the costs and funding arrangements of the Thames Tideway Tunnel?

• Reference: 2012/3876
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Given that pollution levels at ground-level can significantly exceed what is measured by fixed-height monitoring stations, what consideration has TfL given to fitting low-cost vertical roof exhausts to its buses in order to reduce their emissions impact?

• Reference: 2012/3878
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please confirm the costs and funding source for your recent trip to India? Please also outline if any funding was provided for journalists to accompany you on the trip?

• Reference: 2012/3879
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What evaluation will you undertake into the business and environmental benefits of the temporary pedestrianisation that took place in the West End during this year's VIP [Very Important Pedestrians] Day?