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• Reference: 2008/2647
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

The recent RISE festival received £300,000 of funding compared to the proposed £100,000 allocated for next year's St George's Day celebrations. Will the Mayor be prepared to make amends for this disparity by joining myself on April 23rd and opening the ceremony in Trafalgar Square?

• Reference: 2008/2648
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Can the Mayor update me on the development of the Docklands Light Railway project and confirm that the current financial crisis has not affected the original plans for its extension onto Barking and Dagenham and through to Havering?

• Reference: 2008/2649
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

New figures show that over 60% of pupils in London are from a BAME group (78% in Inner London). With this in mind and considering the GLA's legal statutory duty to assist all ethnic minority groups in London, can the Mayor tell me what is being done to assist the white, British ethnic minority group in London?

• Reference: 2008/2343
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Considering the increasingly dire economic situation impacting especially on London's pensioners and other vulnerable communities, will the Mayor, as a gesture of solidarity and understanding, request that the Head of Paid Service suspend all pay rises for this year to the Mayor's direct staff, agree not to take up his own pay rise, and urge London Assembly Members to do the same?

• Reference: 2008/2347
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

In seeking to tackle the root cause of violent street crime in London amongst some of the younger generation will the Mayor condemn the gratuitous open depiction of knives and guns on the covers of DVDs and computer games and the television glamourisation of street violence such as the series Ross Kemp on Gangs?

• Reference: 2008/2344
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

There are huge numbers of Londoners who register as just under the threshold for low pay benefits. With the recent price hikes now impacting on utility bills, many have the unenviable choice of breaking the law or freezing. What are the Mayors plans to tackle fuel poverty?

• Reference: 2008/2345
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

In the light of the recent spectacular collapse of Ujima Housing Association with millions of pounds worth of debts and the predicted collapse of similar bodies, will the mayor launch an in-depth enquiry into housing associations in London to scrutinise the budget sheets and accounts and highlight failing chief executives?

• Reference: 2008/2346
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Does the Mayor believe that members of extremist and fundamentalist religious groups, such as Hizb-ut-Tahir, should be free to join the Metropolitan Police Force?

• Reference: 2008/1698
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

In the light of the fact that the total budget for next year´s London St George´s Day celebrations amounts to £100K, can the Mayor provide us with the total amount of public money that this year was directed towards the Notting Hill Carnival?

• Reference: 2008/1699
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Considering the Mayor´s previous condoning of the banning of law abiding British National Party members from the Metropolitan Police Force does the Mayor think that supporters of extreme left-wing or radical Islamic groups are acceptable as Metropolitan Police Officers?