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• Reference: 2000/0407
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

In view of your expressed desire for economy and efficiency in the GLA family, will you support the transfer of the fireboat service to Thames Division of the MPA, so that considerable savings and synergies could be achieved? .

• Reference: 2000/0442
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Does the Mayor support the reintroduction of the two way working on the TfL roads at Shoreditch? This would help to give the streets back to the community who live and work there. .

• Reference: 2000/0423
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

(a) Did the Mayor consult anyone before making the statement that developers could pre-empt opposition to schemes from Local Authorities by getting the Secretary of State to call them in? (b) Is the Mayor to be the only arbiter of design and planning gain or does he think that others may have a more informed opinion?

• Reference: 2000/0430
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Why does the Mayor believe that investing £60m will ensure that 1,050 more officers can be recruited by March 2002? .

• Reference: 2000/0443
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

What does the Mayor hope to achieve in taking the Government to court over night flights and did he consider all interests before deciding to support this initiative?

• Reference: 2000/0444
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Does the Mayor support the principle of a pilot scheme in London whereby the police would keep a proportion of speeding fine income, evidence elsewhere being that this can help to finance enforcement, improve driver behaviour and save lives? .

• Reference: 2000/0445
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

4Can the Mayor justify in value for money terms the purchase and refurbishment of 31 clapped-out Routemaster buses? Is this not a case of Londoners subsidising his nostalgia for a bygone age, and an encouragement of inaccessible transport? .

• Reference: 2000/0446
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Is the Mayor intending that TfL purchase/lease a large office building at More London Bridge for its staff? If so, given that such a building will be charges at City rental values, is this a good investment of public money and will he be able to justify it in Value for Money terms?

• Reference: 2000/0447
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Will the Mayor accept the principle of Assembly Member observers at meetings to formally consider planning referrals to him?

• Reference: 2000/0355
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Having failed to act and having created a morass of confusion about New Years Eve travel arrangements what will the Mayor now do to retrieve the situation, other than perhaps finding another fall-guy?