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• Reference: 2009/4001
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

The answer to Mayor's question 3342 / 2009 was wholly unsatisfactory. You say you believe in free speech but this was violent disorder. You failed to condemn such violence commenting that it was 'counter productive to the unpleasant views of Nick Griffin'. Will you here and now as Mayor of London and Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority condemn in the strongest terms possible the violence and disorder outside television centre perpetrated by Unite Against Fascism in which 3 Metropolitan Police officers were injured?

• Reference: 2009/3750
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

How many affordable units have been completed since 1st May 2008?

• Reference: 2009/3751
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

How many affordable units have been completed since 1st May 2008 for which planning approval was given prior to 1st May 2008

• Reference: 2009/3752
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

In your speech to Conservative Party conference on 5 October 2009 you said "we have started 12,000 affordable homes...far more than my predecessor". Please provide the figures on which you based this claim.

• Reference: 2009/3753
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Since 2008, climate change has risen up the political agenda. The inclusion in the new draft London Plan of the target to cut CO2 emissions by 60% by 2025 from 1990 levels (policy 5.1) and that the GLA will monitor annually the progress on the contribution of all relevant stakeholders towards its achievement is welcome. Effective implementation and monitoring needs specific policies on different aspects of planning in the London Plan and clear reference to other strategies - climate change needs to be a consistent priority across all the mayor's activities. Why, therefore, are there not climate change policies in...

• Reference: 2009/3754
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Chapter 8 - implementing, monitoring and review National indicators for climate change have changed in scope and range. The GLA has only two key performance indicators for climate change, covering strategic development and renewables. It is not meeting the measures in new National Indicators. This means that the setting and monitoring of targets is weak compared with the Boroughs who are required to meet national targets set by CLG and DEFRA including the climate change indicators, for example 185-188. This is inconsistent when Boroughs are expected to be in conformity with the London Plan. Will the Mayor bring the GLA...

• Reference: 2009/3755
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Support for a Green Enterprise District in the Thames Gateway is laudable. However, we need at least three in London, and green enterprise districts are just the tip of the iceberg. There is a wide range of economic activities which need to be supported and promoted to reduce London's carbon emissions and to adapt London's built and open environment. Why are these activities not included as part of the policy of 4.10 when they should be the highest priority? Related to this, why do the employment projections underpinning the London Plan (Fig 1.5) and the Economic Development Strategy (Fig 2)...

• Reference: 2009/3756
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

With reference to policy 3.12 in the draft London Plan, what mechanisms will be used to achieve the 60/40 split between social rented housing and intermediate housing in regenerated and new build estates, both in strategic developments which come to the Mayor and other developments?

• Reference: 2009/4002
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Now that the British National Party has agreed to open its membership to the black and Asian communities will the Mayor now agree that the current ban on BNP members to volunteer for the Met's volunteer programme should be lifted, bearing in mind the need to attract many people to the programme in the run up to the Olympics?

• Reference: 2009/4003
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Recent reports state that the Metropolitan Police spent £12.5 million last year on translation costs with predictions that this will rise to £20 million by 2012 due to the continuing influx of immigrants. Does the Mayor agree that this is an indulgence the hard pressed London taxpayer can no longer afford in these times of economic difficulty and should reduce not increase?