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• 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?

• Reference: 2010/4120
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

What estimate has been made of the costs, including pension liability, of the Royal Parks Agency Staff transferring to the GLA after 2012 and what proposals have been made to meet these costs?

• Reference: 2010/4121
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

What discussions have you had with DCMS about protecting the experience built up by the Royal Parks Agency over the years?

• Reference: 2010/4122
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Should you assume control over the management of the Royal Parks under the new devolution agreement, do you envisage fewer people working for them than currently employed and, if so, what is the expected reduction in head count?

• Reference: 2010/4123
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

If and when the Royal Parks Agency is devolved, will you ring-fence both their Parliamentary grant and self-generated income for work specifically related to the operation of he parks?

• Reference: 2010/4124
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Now that your devolution settlement has been announced, what powers and funding will you have over skills and employability promotion in London going forward?