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• Reference: 2005/2321
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Why are proposals for additional Core GLA staff and initiatives for the Olympics next year not paid for within the £20 a year Olympics Band D precept that Londoners have already been told about?

• Reference: 2005/2333
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What is the likelihood of Westminster Council refusing to consent to the branding for the Nelson's Column Hoarding? How will the £420,000 costs be met if the sponsorship deal fails?

• Reference: 2005/2334
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

The Mayoral Approval Form for Respect 2005 (which was renamed London United) stated that "£225,000 will be funded by sponsorship" - so why did the team only raise £134,116 and how was the funding gap bridged?

• Reference: 2005/2335
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Why was there a shortfall of £35,000 in sponsorship for the Hydrogen Demo in Trafalgar Square and how will this be met?

• Reference: 2005/2336
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What is the full cost of the Fourth Plinth Project? Why did the response to my MQ 2005/2155 on sponsorship not include any amount for sponsorship raised for the Fourth Plinth? Does this mean no sponsorship funding has been raised? If this is the case how will the £195,000 funding shortfall mentioned in MAF 1926 be bridged?

• Reference: 2005/2337
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Mayoral Approval Form 1557 anticipated that £496,000 would be raised in sales, concessions and sponsorship for Trafalgar Square Events in 2004. So why did the team only raise £37,000 in sponsorship and how was the other £459,000 funded?

• Reference: 2005/2344
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Unemployment in Hackney South and Shoreditch is the 12th highest in the UK and 22.7 per cent. of people of working age have no formal qualifications. 28.3 per cent. of unemployed people in the constituency are aged between 18 and 24. How do you plan to improve public transport links in that area and its surrounding districts to assist with the very necessary regeneration East London requires?

• Reference: 2005/2361
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What work is being done to explore the immediate use of hydrogen supplementation technologies in buses, which can achieve 10 per cent fuel economy from a retro-fitted small onboard hydrolysis unit, while the fuel cell experiment proceeds?

• Reference: 2005/2362
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What role can geothermal energy play in London, towards helping reduce our carbon emissions?

• Reference: 2005/2363
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Given that Middlesex University is not proceeding with earlier plans for a campus at Tottenham Hale, what can be done to promote higher education provision close to disadvantaged communities especially along the Lea Valley?