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• Reference: 2012/3890
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

In your answer to MQ 2871/2012 you stated that the London Enterprise Panel has agreed in principal to make a contribution of £55 million to sector-based interventions in science and/or technology and SME Business Support. When will details of these payments be made publically available?

• Reference: 2012/3891
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You have requested the assistance of the London Enterprise Panel in lobbying for London's interests to be reflected in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill; the minutes of the meeting identify a 'push for further deregulation and for flexible and appropriate immigration policy'. What specific deregulation would you like to see and what do you consider to be 'flexible and appropriate immigration policy' in this context?

• Reference: 2012/3892
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please identify the projects which it is proposed will receive a share of the Government's £25 million 'super-connected cities' funding to install high-speed broadband infrastructure.

• Reference: 2012/3893
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What are you doing to develop co-ordinated Londonwide strategies to tackle child poverty in London, which is at the highest level of any English region?

• Reference: 2012/3894
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Do you support the government's recent decision to examine measures to cap payday loans and give the Financial Conduct Authority powers to regulate lenders? And, given that Londoners are statistically more likely to be in debt arrears as a result of resorting to payday loans, will you co-ordinate an investigation into the extent of payday loan use in London and an examination of alternative lending or grant schemes?

• Reference: 2012/3895
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Recent figures on the Work Programme indicate that it is failing to match up to the DWP's targets and that providers in London are also underperforming. Will you suggest that the London Enterprise Panel's Skill and Employment Working Group examines the operation of the Work Programme as a means to help the long term unemployed into work, its pros and cons and its effectiveness in London?

• Reference: 2012/3896
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please provide details of all of the organisations who have purchased advertising space: a) on Underground rolling stock; b) at TfL managed stations; c) on Overground rolling stock; d) on London Buses. e) at Bus shelters

• Reference: 2012/3897
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Will you now publish your definition of what constitutes a 'job' in the context of your election pledge to create 200,000 new jobs?

• Reference: 2012/3898
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Further to your response to MQ 3391/2012, please elaborate on the work you have carried out to improve the take up of the Living Wage in the retail sector. What meetings have you held with major retailers (for example Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Morrisons, the Co-Operative Group, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis)? Will you publish any relevant correspondence?

• Reference: 2012/3899
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Given your responsibilities for improving public health, are you in favour of plain cigarette packaging?