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• Reference: 2002/0236-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Why is the cost of the retention of officers following the implementation of C3i being included in the part year cost of additional officers recruited (£48.1m) and being charged to the 2003/4 precept when the salaries of these officers are already in the core budget? Do you agree that without a corresponding negative budget figure in savings that this is double counting? If you do not agree, please clarify the position.

• Reference: 2002/0661
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Surely a major city of the size of London has need for more than one heliport. Why have additional locations not been identified in the London Plan? .

• Reference: 2002/0662
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Without a major increase in Public Sector investment, surely the whole London Plan will have to be reconsidered. Can you implement the London Plan without a major increase in Public Sector funding from the Government? .

• Reference: 2002/0658
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

It is regrettable that you declined to share any of the emerging consultation material with Borough Officers in advance of its formal publication. Why did you not consult with the Boroughs? .

• Reference: 2002/0659
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

The London Plan forecasts a population increase of approximately 700,000, but the implications of the population growth for school places, health service provision, policing and transport have not been quantified. Do you believe that the growth strategy in the plan is achievable/sustainable or even desirable? .

• Reference: 2002/0660
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

The target in the plan of 820 additional dwellings per year in Wandsworth, would require a higher level of development than that which has been achieved since 1997, a period which has seen record levels of house building. The windfall sites available over the last ten years for housing development will not be available again. Does the Mayor not think that a rolling five-year target would be more realistic? .

• Reference: 2002/0112-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I have had a complaint from a constituent who works for London Underground, and to quote, "The current dispute is making working life intolerably difficult for many of us. I faced constant abuse from members of the public I was trying to assist on Wednesday, and now I have been suffering abuse and aggressive behaviour from union activists who are trying to intimidate and pester staff who came to work during the strike. I feel very strongly that this strike has been extremely destructive and is totally unjustified." "I am horrified and appalled at Ken Livingstone's actions and his failure...

• Reference: 2002/0149-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

How can you justify a 5.3% increase on tube fares for the tacky service delivered to Londoners by an unhelpful workforce? .

• Reference: 2002/0150-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

How much money has been taken out of TfL's budget for road maintenance, in Wandsworth and Merton and in London as a whole? .

• Reference: 2002/0151-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I have received a letter from a gentleman who cycles daily from Battersea to the city and complains that the London Cycle Network is hardly visible and there is an apparent mismatch in local councils' commitment to the London Cycle Network. What are you doing to co-ordinate the route of, and the publicity for, the London Cycle Network? .