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• Reference: 2009/3971
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

How much money was saved by the decision to cancel the upgrade work at Newbury Park Station?

• 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: 2009/3972
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Will the Mayor instruct Transport for London to ensure that Gant's Hill subways are cleaned before Christmas?

• Reference: 2009/3973
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

A lot of concern has been raised by the opposition about the SportAccord convention being held in London in 2011. Please advise me what financial benefit this event brings to London and are there any already determined plans?

• Reference: 2009/3974
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

What have been the benefits to previous Olympic cities from hosting the event in terms of financial income to the cities, tourism benefits and developing links to sporting governing bodies? Have previous host cities won further sporting events as London is aiming to do?

• Reference: 2009/3975
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

In light of Metropole Hotels claims that the awarding of the hosting contract to Park Plaza was not above board, please advise me what contact was attempted with Metropole beforehand, if they rejected the chance to bid for the contract, and if they rejected the chance, what reasons they gave?

• 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?

• Reference: 2009/4004
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

According to the Mayor's Transport Strategy London will achieve a 60% reduction in co2 emissions from ground based transport by 2025, at the same time London's population and employment growth will increase and accelerate. Are these targets wholly un-realistic and therefore misleading to Londoners?

• Reference: 2009/4005
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

According to the Mayor's Transport Strategy some degree of climate change is inevitable. How can the Mayor make this assertion when it is impossible to say on current data what actually will occur? Hotter and drier summers have not occurred in the last 4 years in London for example, therefore, should we be less alarmist on climate change until the evidence is much clearer?