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• Reference: 2012/3886
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please confirm whether or not you intend to meet your manifesto pledge to achieve £600m savings through sharing services across the GLA, and if so how?

• Reference: 2012/3887
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What measures are in place to check the standard of work carried out through your homes retrofit scheme (RE:NEW) following reports that up to 50 per cent of the UK's 'insulated' housing stock could require remedial work?

• Reference: 2012/3888
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How many London employers has the London Enterprise Panel successfully helped to bid for a portion of the £250m national Employer Ownership Pilot scheme funds? Please list these.

• Reference: 2012/3889
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

In your answer to MQ 2871/2012 you stated that the London Enterprise Panel has agreed in principal to make a contribution of £36.3 million from the Growing Places Fund to a joint GLA/TfL infrastructure fund. Are you able to elaborate on which projects these funds will be spent on and what criteria you will use to ensure that investment is predicated upon job creation and sustainable employment?

• Reference: 2012/3890
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

In your answer to MQ 2871/2012 you stated that the London Enterprise Panel has agreed in principal to make a contribution of £55 million to sector-based interventions in science and/or technology and SME Business Support. When will details of these payments be made publically available?

• Reference: 2012/3891
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You have requested the assistance of the London Enterprise Panel in lobbying for London's interests to be reflected in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill; the minutes of the meeting identify a 'push for further deregulation and for flexible and appropriate immigration policy'. What specific deregulation would you like to see and what do you consider to be 'flexible and appropriate immigration policy' in this context?

• Reference: 2012/3892
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Please identify the projects which it is proposed will receive a share of the Government's £25 million 'super-connected cities' funding to install high-speed broadband infrastructure.

• Reference: 2012/3893
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

What are you doing to develop co-ordinated Londonwide strategies to tackle child poverty in London, which is at the highest level of any English region?

• Reference: 2012/3894
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Do you support the government's recent decision to examine measures to cap payday loans and give the Financial Conduct Authority powers to regulate lenders? And, given that Londoners are statistically more likely to be in debt arrears as a result of resorting to payday loans, will you co-ordinate an investigation into the extent of payday loan use in London and an examination of alternative lending or grant schemes?

• Reference: 2012/3895
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Recent figures on the Work Programme indicate that it is failing to match up to the DWP's targets and that providers in London are also underperforming. Will you suggest that the London Enterprise Panel's Skill and Employment Working Group examines the operation of the Work Programme as a means to help the long term unemployed into work, its pros and cons and its effectiveness in London?