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• Reference: 2000/0396
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

What are the implications for the repairs and maintenance needed to the Underground now as well as after its handing over to TfL arising from the Deputy Prime Minister's refusal to disclose information to the Mayor and Robert Kiley on the basis that everything related to the PPP is automatically confidential for commercial reasons? .

• Reference: 2000/0397
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

How effective will Bob Kiley be if dialogue between Mayor and the government on PPP continues to break down? What can be done to ensure that Bob Kiley is equipped with the tools he needs to do his job?

• Reference: 2000/0399
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Will the Mayor agree that intelligence is essential to every strategy and we don't yet have it? State of the art Geographical Information Systems don't just provide maps. The key word is information. Any database that has a locational facet, e.g. an address, postcode or an enumeration district, can be linked to a detailed and up to date mapping system. All the Census data to be collected next year: unemployment data, housing and industry information could all be integrated in to one system and accessed by the whole GLA family for policy and implementation work. From a personal view, can...

• Reference: 2000/0400
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Does the Mayor support the introduction of new local bus routes, and in particular to the proposed Hoxton Hoppa? .

• Reference: 2000/0402
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

In the Draft Transport Strategy the Mayor indicated the possibility of targeting fare initiatives to promote social inclusion for less well off groups. Given that students 18 and over must pay full fares, this must limit their access to London, and may be a disincentive to remain in education. Would the Mayor therefore consider a targeted fare initiative for students?

• Reference: 2000/0406
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Has the Mayor consulted the London Ambulance Service on the costs of New Years Eve?

• Reference: 2000/0338
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Is the Mayor aware that access for people with physical disabilities to Britain's busiest railway station, Clapham Junction, is by an "evacuation" chair, which must be carried up and down stairs by railway staff, which is inefficient, dangerous and humiliating for the disabled person. This is by no means an isolated example. What measures will the Mayor take to increase access for people with disabilities to public transport? Will the Mayor ask Transport for London to look at possible improvements at Clapham Junction?

• Reference: 2000/0340
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

What assurances has the Mayor been given that the cost of the new Wembley Stadium will not escalate out of control in the same way that the Millennium Dome has?

• Reference: 2000/0341
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Is it true that the Montevetro Development in Battersea Church Road has lowered the height of the Riverside wall, and indeed that it is now a fence, and that, as a result, Wandsworth Council have refused to open the extended Riverside Walk which was promised?

• Reference: 2000/0342
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

What progress has been made in implementing 1998 Mini Cabs Act and ensuring that all Mini Cab firms in London are properly licensed?