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• Reference: 2005/0314-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Tessa Jowell has conceded that the security bill is likely to increase. Who will pay for it?

• Reference: 2005/0316-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The Big Lottery Fund, which distributes lottery money, has predicted that grants to causes such as health, education, environmental and volunteer programmes could be reduced by £68m over the next four years, as lottery players switch to the heavily marketed Olympic-themed game. Could this Olympic lottery simply divert monies from other causes - including local sporting developments of which much is made in current lottery propaganda?

• Reference: 2005/0317-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Building Design was obliged to obtain information about project funding under Freedom of Information legislation. We too are obliged to resort to FoI on the Olympic opinion polling. We are still chasing the information which was denied to us on grounds that giving it to us would affect public perception of opinion polling. Appreciating that the London Assembly has no role in the Olympic Games and is not even mentioned in the London Olympics Bill, can the Mayor explain who is to have the job of even the most rudeimentary form of scrutiny, looking after London's interests and avoiding the...

• Reference: 2005/0318-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

In Singapore, in the final stages of the bidding process, Sebastian Coe promised immediate gains for sport in the UK if London were to be successful. Can these now be quantified?

• Reference: 2005/0320-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The strict provisions in the London Olympics Bill to prevent so-called ambush marketing could make it illegal for a local hotel to advertise rooms for the London Olympics' or a swimwear company to advertise its summer 2012 collection. This is to benefit the profits made by the IOC. Can you confirm whether this is in fact the case, and what is being done to prevent the damage to business locally and nationally in that event?

• Reference: 2005/1424
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

On its website London House divides its activity into three parts: "Develops relations with EU institutions and relevant organisations Monitors up-coming policies, directives and regulations Ensures EU policy-makers are aware of London's interests and best practice". However, it supplies briefs only to groups that fund them, most of them part of GLA, and refuses to lobby except on the personal instructions from the Mayor. Is there not some contradiction between the clearly stated functions on its website, and what London House actually does?

• Reference: 2005/1509
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Since waste disposal is an EU 'competency', does the Mayor consider that a Single Waste Authority would have any more 'authority' over waste disposal than the London Boroughs?

• Reference: 2005/1415
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

At the last MQT, you stated that "we have enough land already in our possession to relocate everyobody within Beckton'" Can you tell us what land the LDA has under its control in Beckton?

• Reference: 2005/1414
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

The Mayor is on record as supporting the European WTD. Has he estimated the net annual cost to London businesses of implementing this directive?

• Reference: 2005/0165-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

At the London Assembly plenary last December, Commander Mick Messinger was unable to point to any evidence to support the view that ID cards are of any use in the fight against terrorism. Is the Commissioner aware of any such evidence?