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• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

I wondered if I could very quickly ask Mayor Pipe a question on the Ministerial statement yesterday on the 'bedroom tax'. It appears to me that what is being said is rather than change the actual proposals so that the categories talked about are exempt, what is being done is that the Government is asking local authorities to use discretionary payments to effectively pay that money back. Is that right? Can you explain what the process would be and, importantly, is the Government actually funding this?

• Reference: 2012/0227-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Did LOCOG fully meet its affordable ticket guarantees for all sporting events throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games?

• Reference: 2012/0219-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

What evidence have you received so far concerning the so called "localisation" of business rates?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Stephen Knight (AM): To pick you up on the point you have just made around the high property values in London, compared, I believe with most other developed countries, we have very few property and wealth taxes in this country; we predominantly focus on income and sales taxes. I just wondered to what extent you think the high cost of housing in London is partly driven by the fact that it is a tax free growth area for people, by which I mean it is a tax free investment and therefore that has partly driven the speculation that has driven...

• Reference: 2012/0209-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

What meetings have been held between LFEPA and the Mayor to secure continued funding of LIFE?

• Reference: 2012/0210-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

What measures are being taken to ensure that the number of fires near to railway lines diminishes, to help reduce the immense economic disruption that a number of fires have created in the last few years.

• Reference: 2012/0211-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

What discussions did the Mayor or his office hold with officers of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority before setting the savings target of £64.8 million for the next two financial years?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Mr Cleverly, you said earlier in response to one of the supplementary questions that one of your priorities in terms of maintaining fire cover was average response times and maintaining them as 'excellent'. I just wonder if you could clarify what you meant by that? Do you, for instance, mean that you would not countenance any reduction at all in average response times?