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• Reference: 2010/3973
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Will HCA London and the GLA group continue with your plans to adopt and roll out the London Housing Design Guide for all affordable housing, in spite of the Housing Minister's decision to scrap the national HCA core housing standards?

• Reference: 2010/3992
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Will you sack Brian Coleman?

• Reference: 2010/4265
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Your answer to MQ 3089/2010 states, 'in terms of animal welfare, there is no difference between halal and non-halal slaughter'! According to a major halal abattoir based in Somerset, the stun used 'knocks the animal out for around 15-20 seconds.' Opinion is that halal slaughter takes at least 4 minutes, and hence all that a 'low voltage stun' does is knock out the animal so that its throat can be cut with the least resistance. After 20 seconds, the animal is alive, breathing and fully conscious again and suffers tremendous pain for the remaining three and a half minutes of...

• Reference: 2010/3987
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Would the lack of Government funding for an extended vehicle scrappage scheme be a major barrier to you going ahead with a very low emission zone covering central London?

• Reference: 2010/3988
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

In answer to my question 652/2010 you stated that a total of £60m would be required to deliver your Electric Vehicle Delivery Plan. Can you provide an update of what finance has been secured (a) up to the end of 2011/12 and (b) for the years 2012/13 to 2014/15, and tell me what you aim to get from other sources?

• Reference: 2010/3989
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

You are now committed to delivering at least 1,300 charging points by 2013, rather than the 7,500 previously promised. Are you still committed to a target of 25,000 charging points by 2015?

• Reference: 2010/3990
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Why were you unconvinced that Nissan's offer to provide electric vehicle charging points for their Olympic car fleet would have been practical? Would the offer from EDF to enhance the charging network as part of their sponsorship deal have resolved these problems?

• Reference: 2010/3991
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

In the interests of protecting Londoners will you be calling on the London Fire Brigade to ensure the 27 appliances that were removed during the recent dispute will be returned to active service?

• Reference: 2010/3993
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Following the Government's publication of their Low Carbon Construction report, will you take up their recommendation to make it 'a requirement to conduct a whole-life (embodied + operational) carbon appraisal and [ensure] that this is factored into feasibility studies on the basis of a realistic price for carbon' across all GLA Group building and infrastructure projects?

• Reference: 2010/3994
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Following the Government's publication of their Low Carbon Construction report, will the GLA group take up their recommendation to 'routinely embed the principles of 'Soft Landings' into [your] contracts and processes, so that a building is not regarded as complete until it performs in accordance with its design criteria'?