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  • Fire Brigade attendances to DUKW passenger vessels

    • Reference: 2013/4029
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    In each of the last five years, how many times did the London Fire Brigade attend a DUKW passenger vessel due to breakdowns, mechanical faults or for any other reason in the River Thames?
  • Cleaner Air for Schools programme

    • Reference: 2013/4030
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Given that over 1,000 schools in London are situated within 150 metres of roads carrying 10,000 or more vehicles per day - and are therefore exposed to above-average levels of air pollution on a regular basis - what plans do you have to expand the Cleaner Air for Schools programme beyond those forty schools which are due to participate in the scheme?
  • Source London

    • Reference: 2013/4031
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Further to your answer to MQ2013/3508, will you encourage the six boroughs that are not currently members of the Source London consortium [Barnet, Havering, Islington, Richmond upon Thames, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest] to join before TfL hands over the management and operation of the scheme to a private company in 2014?
  • Plastic bags

    • Reference: 2013/3937
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    What progress have you made since your answer to my question in September 2012 on your ambition to make London a plastic bag free city?
  • Visitor accommodation

    • Reference: 2013/3938
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    The GLA Economics report on visitor accommodation found that around 42,900 net new serviced tourist rooms will be required by 2036. What steps are you taking to meet this target?
  • Open for Business report

    • Reference: 2013/3939
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Which recommendations from the economy committee's March 2013 Open for Business report have you taken up? What are your reasons for not taking up the others?
  • Skills Funding Agency

    • Reference: 2013/3940
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Thank you for your answer to question 2013/3386. You may be aware the recommendation to devolve responsibility for the money spent in London by the Skills Funding Agency to the Greater London Authority was in my recent Affordable Homes and Jobs report. Given that at London level this recommendation is supported by two parties of government, what specific efforts have you made to convince government of such a move?
  • Urban Broadband Fund

    • Reference: 2013/3941
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Thank you for your answer to question 2013/3530. Can you give me a timetable for the allocation process of the Urban Broadband Fund?
  • Apprenticeship Target

    • Reference: 2013/3942
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Thank you for your answer to question 2013/3531. Can you tell me how many apprenticeship places you have created so far in order to meet your target of 250,000 by 2016?
  • Payday Loans

    • Reference: 2013/3943
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    Thank you for your answer to question 2012/3894. Given that Londoners are statistically more likely to be in debt arrears as a result of resorting to payday loans, will you coordinate an investigation into the extent of payday loan use in London? If not, why not?