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• Reference: 2008/0796
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Given your open contempt for the London Assembly and many of its members, as expressed in answer to my question 532/2008, do you consider that its £8 million budget would be better spent by the Evening Standard and BBC, which are not subject to the same red tape in obtaining information from your office?

• Reference: 2008/0798
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Does the Mayor believe that it sends a good signal to children to allow them to travel at taxpayers' expense? Does this not promote the dependency culture?

• Reference: 2008/0795
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Further to your answer to my question 531/2008 please can you supply the cost/benefit analysis figures for the solar panels on City Hall and the solar panel/wind turbine scheme at Palestra, both of which are unlikely to generate enough electricity in their entire lifetimes to even pay back the installation costs. How do you judge that such uneconomic projects promote London's economic development?

• Reference: 2008/0797
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Is the mayor confident that TfL will continue to receive the expected revenue from this contract now that the assets of PDVSA have been frozen?

• Reference: 2008/0799
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

In concentrating his attacks on the US Embassy, why does the mayor refuse to acknowledge that many more embassies, including European Union countries, are joining the rebellion, and why is he refusing to test the matter by seeking a court ruling on whether the congestion charge is a charge or a tax?

• Reference: 2008/0530
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Would the Mayor agree with One London that if Government were to ask the taxpayers of London for any more money for the Olympics, the Mayor should set an example and clearly refuse?

• Reference: 2008/0531
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Would the Mayor agree with One London that his green initiatives should be subjected to a proper cost-benefit analysis?

• Reference: 2008/0532
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The Mayor frequently criticises the lack of effectiveness of the London Assemby. Would he agree with One London that the Assembly should be given proper powers to hold the Mayor to account or that alternative means should be found to hold the Mayor to account?

• Reference: 2008/0535
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Does the Mayor agree with John Stewart, the Campaign director of the anti-expansion lobby group HACAN, that "If anything happened to Heathrow, West London is in danger of becoming like East London when the docks closed"?

• Reference: 2008/0536
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Does the Mayor agree with One London that any attempt to tax Londoners with non-domicile status will simply drive them out of London, resulting in reduced prosperity and minimal gain for the Treasury?