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• Reference: 2008/2086
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Will you encourage all boroughs in London to sign up to London's Living Wage and ensure that all contracts they let include such a provision?

• Reference: 2008/2087
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

In July you announced plans for an Outer London Commission. When will this Commission start, who will sit on it and what will be its remit?

• Reference: 2008/2138
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Now that the London Waste and Recycling Board is fully constituted and you have chaired its first meeting, please define clearly what objectives you have set for your administration to achieve on waste and recycling in London by 2012 and the key milestones between now and then.

• Reference: 2008/1803
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Please confirm that you are going to stick to your Housing Manifesto commitment to cut the number of empty dwellings in London to 1% by 2011, rather than simply to reduce long-term empty homes to 1% of London's total housing stock as stated by your press release of 8 July - which in fact was achieved before you took office according to the Empty Homes Agency.

• Reference: 2008/1703
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

You have said you are committed to complete openness for all your planning decisions. How can members of the public make representations to you on planning applications that come to you for decision? Specifically, will you hold in public your decision-making meetings at which you are advised by officers, as happens in local authorities?

• Reference: 2008/1706
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

With Tim Parker's sudden departure do you still intend to be seeking savings and cost reductions of more than 15% from the core GLA and varying levels in each of the Functional bodies?

• Reference: 2008/1707
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Average annual concentrations of nitrogen oxide in parts of central London are more than double the EU standard set in 1999, which became law earlier this year and requires compliance within 16 months. What specific steps will you take to assist the Government to meet the EU target for nitrogen dioxide?

• Reference: 2008/1708
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

When will the Cabinet start meeting, who is a member of it and will the minutes of the meetings of your Cabinet be published and made available on the GLA's website?

• Reference: 2008/1709
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Thank you for your answer to my question 1084/2008 about the Thames Interceptor Tunnel, which is much needed to improve the water quality on the Thames. I entirely agree with you 'that the project is delivered in a time efficient way, without unacceptable impacts on local communities.' Would you therefore agree with me that comments from Hammersmith & Fulham Council saying that 'the super sewer would have virtually no impact on flooding situation and that it is designed purely to meet an EU regulation on pollution when in fact environmentalists are saying that the Thames is clean.' are totally inaccurate...

• Reference: 2008/1710
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

For what roles in your office will Egon Zehnder be assisting with in the recruitment of 2-3 senior appointments at a maximum cost of £125,000 as outlined in MD65?