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  • Planning for Britain’s future aviation needs (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 18 June 2014
    Nicky Gavron AM: Sir Howard, it is going back a bit to when you were talking about the hub-and-spoke and the point of having those connected flights. What is the proportion of short-haul flights going from Heathrow?
  • Land and property taxes (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 05 June 2013
    Nicky Gavron (AM): Thank you for the report and thank you so much for the way you are amplifying it, Tony. This is a little bit different from what Jenny Jones and Murad Qureshi have been saying but it is building on that. Do you think if there was a targeted form of land tax on those sites which have planning permissions, and we know now we have 211,000 homes sitting on land with planning permission at the moment, that would help bring forward housing?
  • Impact of Housing Related Welfare Reforms (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 13 March 2013
    I want to follow up from Stephen Knight's questioning on the CPI. Perhaps I could ask Kate, because she did not get a chance to answer. Have I got it right that the CPI is going to mean that rents are now going to be tagged to the CPI, rather than to rent inflation? Further, as the CPI has always risen at a much lower rate than rents, the 30th percentile which the LHA is tagged to will drop to perhaps 20th or 10th percentile available? Have I got this right?
  • Physical Legacy of the Olympic Park (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
    Nicky Gavron (AM): I want to go back if I may to Caroline Pidgeon's question where you were talking about the level of affordable housing. There has always been a real concern that the brilliant and beautifully planned Park and its neighbourhood might become an enclave for relatively well-off people. It would be a real failure for legacy if it were not to deliver mixed and balanced communities. Now, 35% affordable homes is not a very high proportion. Could I drill down into what is meant by 'affordable'? I do not mind which of you answers.
  • Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
    This is not in any way to diminish what I think is your spectacular achievement, but it is just one story. My family got tickets for the Paralympics. We were unable to get any tickets for sessions at the Games that we wanted to go to. At the very last minute, at a pretty hefty price, we were able to go to the O2 to see the first Saturday - absolutely amazing men's gymnastics - but it was half empty. Why was that? This was the morning. It might have filled up in the afternoon, but in the morning.
  • Balance of Taxation (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    Nicky Gavron (AM): While we are on land and talking about the planning system, currently the Assembly's Planning Committee is looking at the community infrastructure levy (CIL). That is, to a certain extent, a fixed charge, although there are lots of complications because it is set different in different boroughs and there is not necessarily a duty to cooperate and so on. On top of that is the Mayor's own CIL. I was wondering, this CIL is for Crossrail, but is the Commission going to look beyond that to the way CIL might be used by the Mayor in the...
  • Tax Devolution (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    In the same spirit, how far are you going to frame for the Mayor any of the mechanisms he might be thinking about for the comprehensive spending review for London?
  • Tax Devolution (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    Nicky Gavron (AM): Picking up on what you were saying earlier about hypothecation and recognising that you are trying to do a very important, long term job which may pay off, in the shorter term, how far is your survey of other cities looking at the ways in which other city governments have been enabled to set charges like congestion charging, or have the powers to set levies and so on, which they can hypothecate? The Mayor has two opportunities in London: CIL and congestion charging, and there could be others like that. Are you going to come up with...
  • Fire Stations in Hammersmith

    • Reference: 2012/0172-1
    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2012
    Are any fire stations in Hammersmith on your draft list for closure?
  • Fire Stations in Fulham

    • Reference: 2012/0173-1
    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2012
    Are any fire stations in Fulham on your draft list for closure?