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• Reference: 2010/4110
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Is your Green Fund still viable? How will you now support organisations to reduce CO2 emissions from their existing buildings by retrofitting them with energy efficiency measures? How much funding will you now be putting into Climate Change programmes over the next three financial years?

• Reference: 2010/4111
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

TfL has so far spent over £1.3 million on the electric charging network, and yet TfL make no note of how many users have signed up for the scheme. I understand that in Haringey, for example, where £63,000 has already been spent & another £30,000 is committed, that just one user has registered for the 12 charging points. Do you think TfL ought to be keeping a tally of how many users there are as they continue to plough money into this? And currently how do you or TfL know if this is good value for taxpayers' money?

• Reference: 2010/4112
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

How many more tube strikes will Londoners have to endure before your apparent policy of Laissez-faire becomes untenable?

• Reference: 2010/4113
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

During your visit to Zurich, you gave an interview stating that one of the reasons England's bid should succeed was based upon the "significant upgrade to the transport network" between now and 2018. Can you clarify what these significant upgrades comprise of and in light of the unsuccessful bid, will you honour your commitment to Londoner's to complete all of these projects?

• Reference: 2010/4114
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

A constituent makes the following points and questions: London Underground are now asking for excessive information from all workers of contractors that exceed all reasonable requirement and exceed that requested by all other London and Government departments including the ministry of defence. London Underground Now ask for the following; If you are British but have not got a passport or a picture ID Driving Licence you can not undertake the safety test to work on London underground. They will not accept company ID Cards or Construction Skills Photographic ID Cards or indeed any other form if ID. You also have...

• Reference: 2010/4115
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Is there a distinction to be made between the tax relief that results from a pension payment being deducted from somebody's 'top line' pay and corporate tax avoidance that allows companies to bring income and profit onshore while minimising the UK tax, and could the effects of cuts to public services in London be mitigated if we made this distinction in law?

• Reference: 2010/4116
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Should the loopholes that lead to corporate tax avoidance measures - that allow companies to bring income and profit onshore (satisfying HMRC requirements) while minimising the UK tax paid - be closed to increase Treasury revenue and reduce cuts to public services in London?

• Reference: 2010/4117
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Should the loopholes that allow corporate tax avoidance to persist be closed, thereby ending the debate on whether corporate avoidance of tax is immoral and, if so, what would be the effect on London's economy?

• Reference: 2010/4118
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

At November 2010 Mayor's Question Time you told me 'I will join you in calling for tax evaders to be prosecuted'. Will you undertake to write to the Chancellor, George Osborne, reminding him that, by HMRC figures alone (National Fraud Indicator 2010), tax evasion costs the Treasury ten times more (£10.7 billion p.a) than benefit theft and urging him to invest equal resources in recouping benefit theft and evaded tax and securing convictions for those who do so?

• Reference: 2010/4119
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

What proposals have the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport made in transferring the Royal Parks to the GLA in relation to the accumulated works maintenance for that estate, estimated at £56 million in the 2009/10 RPA Report and Accounts?