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• Reference: 2016/0969
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Given your own Air Quality Manifesto (2014) showed how London could meet European legal limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by 2020, do you feel the government's current plan for reducing NO2 in London - which does not see the capital meeting legal targets until 2025 at the earliest - contains a list of measures that will bring air pollution down to within legal limits in the shortest possible time?

• Reference: 2016/0970
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Following reports that indoor air pollution is contributing to around 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK (according to the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Paediatrics and Child Health), will you consider what more the GLA could do to increase awareness among Londoners of the risks that wood-burning stoves, spray deodorants, air fresheners, fly sprays and gas cookers can pose to the quality of indoor air?

• Reference: 2016/0590
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

What is your assessment of the potential impact on London's waste management of closing the Lakeside Energy from Waste facility, as would be required were a third runway to be built at Heathrow?

• Reference: 2016/0591
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 22 February 2016

Do you accept that limit values set for concentrations of major air pollutants in the ambient air are absolute and that any deterioration in air quality, at whatever level, would render a proposal unsound?

• Reference: 2016/0095
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

How do you respond to the government's latest plan for reducing nitrogen dioxide emissions in London?

• Reference: 2016/0096
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

How many warning letters were issued to owners of vehicles seen driving within the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) which did not meet the relevant emissions standards in 2015?

• Reference: 2016/0097
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

How many 'daily charges' were purchased in 2015 for vehicles which did not meet the Phase 3 emissions standard for vans and mini-buses or the Phase 4 emissions standard for lorries, buses and coaches? Please also state the percentage of vehicles which already complied with these LEZ emissions standards.

• Reference: 2016/0098
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

How many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued to vehicles seen within the LEZ which did not meet the relevant emissions standards in 2015?

• Reference: 2016/0101
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

Given your recognition of the challenges facing London's waste authorities - high density housing stock, varied collection services, and transient populations - and your disappointment at the city's falling recycling rate (MQ2015/4395), will you look again at re-establishing the Flats Recycling Programme to help tackle these issues?

• Reference: 2016/0103
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 20 January 2016

How realistic is your target to increase tree cover across London by 5 per cent (from 20 to 25 per cent) by 2025, given your recent analysis of aerial imagery showed little change over the last decade?