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• Reference: 2005/2319
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Given that £20 per year is the amount that Londoners are familiar with as the household annual council tax levy for the Games, how will the Mayor deal with London residents (living in properties above Band D) when they find out that in reality they are paying up to £40 per year?

• Reference: 2005/2343
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Is Mr Kiley to be consultant to you in your capacity as Mayor or as Chair of TfL? What are the terms of his retirement from the post of Commissioner before the contractual termination date, and of his consultancy? If you have been advised that you are entitled to keep such information confidential, are you prepared to set such advice aside, in the obvious public interest?

• Reference: 2005/2320
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

A recent edition of The Londoner Newspaper stated that the Olympics precept would last for 12 years. Can you confirm that a decision has now been taken to extend the Olympics precept to 12 years? If the period is 10 years extended to 12 if necessary, then why was the information in The Londoner incorrect?

• Reference: 2005/2322
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Will new Core GLA staff working on the Olympics be employed on permanent contracts? If not, what time period is envisaged?

• Reference: 2005/2323
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please set out staffing structures, together with costs, in both the GLA and FBs in connection with the Olympic and Paralympic Games, distinguishing between those directly required for the Games and those which will capitalise on the legacy aspects.

• Reference: 2005/2326
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Page 27 of the Draft GLA Business Plan states "we will be putting into place new initiatives to improve the effectiveness of our communication." Can you provide details of these new initiatives including the 'London Forum'? How will this feed into the work of the GLA?

• Reference: 2005/2327
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How has consultation shaped your Draft Budget for 2006/07?

• Reference: 2005/2358
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

In an interview with Somethingjewish.co.uk published on November 17th this year you said, when asked if you were planning to go to any of the events publicised in the Jewish culture guide to London that the GLA supported: "I go to nothing that we do. I have three functions in life - one is doing the day job, two is looking after the kids and three is sleeping, and that's about all I do. Once a year I go to the first ten minutes of whatever is the Mayor's film festival." How do you equate this remark with your recent...

• Reference: 2005/2368
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please explain the reasons for the siting by TfL of new lamp standards in the Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen, and their swift subsequent moving, in some cases twice. What consultation has taken place (including with those with premises along the affected stretch), and is to take place? What are the costs of the work, and how much of this is cost attributable to abortive work? Does TfL propose to give an apology to those affected?

• Reference: 2005/2369
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Do you agree that targets for employment for local people and businesses, and for BME businesses, should be written into the plans relating to Games-related contracts and jobs from the start?