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• Reference: 2007/3118
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Please can the Mayor explain why he failed to respond within the statutory deadline to the following question I asked at the November MQT? (2658/2007: What is the justification for paying the Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq £4500 for her recent appearance at a GLA event?)

• Reference: 2007/3119
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

When I predicted in 2005 that the 2012 Olympics would cost taxpayers £10 billion, you suggested that I should not be unpatriotic and should support the bid. After Tessa Jowell's confirmation almost 2 years later of a figure of £9.3 billion, you told me that the contingency was very large and that the bill would never reach that. Now the government is suggesting that the contingency could indeed be used. Would it not be sensible to scrap some proposed Olympic venues and use existing ones in order to remain within the existing budget?

• Reference: 2007/3121
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Further to your answer to my question 2657/2007, how much do you expect tube fares to increase in the year after the mayoral election?

• Reference: 2007/3123
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

To what degree has the change in the structure of fines and penalties in February 2007 impacted on Congestion Charge revenues and how much remains uncollected or written off?

• Reference: 2007/3124
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Are you satisfied that the proposed use of tasers by the MPS as part of a pilot passes the test of proper training, and deals adequately with reservations expressed by organisations in the UK, US and Canada?

• Reference: 2007/2656
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

It is accepted that one of the main reasons for the failure of the Millennium Dome as a visitor attraction was its car exclusion zone. How would the Olympics succeed in making such an exclusion zone work, when the Dome - with better public transport facilities - failed?

• Reference: 2007/2658
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What is the justification for paying the Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq £4500 for her recent appearance at a GLA event?

• Reference: 2007/2663
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

The City of London London/Oxford Economics report (London's Place in the UK Economy 2007-08) calculates the London Deficit to be in the range £7-£17.8 billion. Does the Mayor think it is now time to reassess the calculation of £1-£7 billion made by GLA Economics in 2005 or does he believe that figure remains accurate today?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Are you happy with that report then, from our Committee?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Mayor, you have just accused us of spending £15,000; you are outraged and appalled that we should spend £15,000 to look at something which was clearly unacceptable. We gave the LDA, back in April, half a dozen specific areas on which we wanted them to supply information to Deloitte to enable us to then answer those questions. I think Dee Doocey, who is Chair of the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, will agree with me: we did not get the information and Deloitte did not get the information.