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• Reference: 2016/0088
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

The Government has announced it will parcel large publicly owned sites into smaller plots, to 'directly commission small and up-and-coming companies to build thousands of new homes', including at Old Oak Common. Following this, will you review your approach through the London Land Commission to provide similar opportunities for smaller builders on other publicly owned land across London?

• Reference: 2016/0092
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

The TfL-commissioned report 'Impact of the Night Tube on London's Night-Time Economy' draws conclusions based on data from a Bus Survey Analytical Report completed eight years ago, and relies on data on taxi and private hire use that pre-dates recent significant changes in that sector. Given that introducing the night tube has proven harder than you expected, shouldn't you commission new research using current data so that any assertions made about the importance of all night running is supported by evidence?

• Reference: 2014/2694
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Will you look at how small businesses in London can directly benefit from events like the Tour de France, rather than all the upsides going to the big corporate sponsors, especially when TfL are putting such large sums into supporting such events?

• Reference: 2014/2722
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

The Financial Services Commission found Wonga guilty of sending letters from non-existent law firms to customers in arrears. Do you now agree it was a mistake to take sponsorship money from Wonga?

• Reference: 2013/4640
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

In Hackney, 26% of the population has never used the internet, the local youth unemployment rate is unacceptably high, and high tech employers have told the Assembly that there aren't enough local people with the skills they need. What are you doing as part of the Tech City initiative to redress these issues and ensure it benefits local people?

• Reference: 2013/4641
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

What are you doing to make sure organisations behind Tech City and large companies in the area engage with community organisations, for example to offer training and job opportunities?

• Reference: 2013/4047
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Thank you for your answer to question 2013/3393. Will you write to the European Commission urging them to investigate the market failure that is depriving residents in Rotherhithe of superfast broadband, enabling the Government and GLA to ensure that all properties - for businesses and residents - are able to gain superfast connections without falling foul of state aid rules?

• Reference: 2013/3376
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Will you pledge to end the "twinned city" link between London and Moscow unless the Russian Government ends what many people consider discrimination and hostility against LGBT people?

• Reference: 2013/2393
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Further to my question 1383/2013, will you agree to require openness and transparency as part of the funding agreement for London & Partners, at the very least for the 2014/15 settlement onwards?

• Reference: 2013/2394
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

According to the Association of Event Organisers, the trade association representing the organisations responsible for over 75% of the UK consumer and trade events annually, your decision to back the Earl's Court demolition proposals 'highlights a blinkered and biased perspective, without proper and educated consideration of the longer term, detrimental effects this will have for the UK exhibitions and events industry and the UK economy as a whole'. Given these views from the very businesses you claim to serve do you regret not heeding the call to defer you decision until an independent study on the economic effects of the...