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• Reference: 2008/0203
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Following your answer to MQT 3070/2007 in which you state the LSEB will be expanded to include a representative from local government, will the Mayor explain how this person will be selected?

• Reference: 2008/0204
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

According to the Department of Health's latest Health Inequality Target Monitoring, the Government will not meet its own target to reduce the inequality gap in life expectancy; in particular, the target for both men and women will not be met in six of London's Spearhead PCTs. Does the Mayor share my concern that the Government are pursuing the wrong policies?

• Reference: 2008/0205
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

What freedom does the Mayor have to deviate from or change Government health policy in London in his health inequalities strategy, given the recent revelation that the Government is not on track to meet its own target to reduce the inequality gap in life expectancy?

• Reference: 2008/0206
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Will the Mayor inform me how much the Get Set London Roadshow will cost and how much is being funded by the GLA? Will he also tell me the order in which the Roadshow will visit all the London Boroughs?

• Reference: 2008/0207
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

I would be very grateful if you would call for a moratorium on the proposed Arts Council Cuts to the smaller London arts venues. Many of these excellent Arts organisations, with programming already done for the year ahead, have now been told that their grants will be reduced or cut completely from April. Do you like me wonder what the London Arts Board has been doing?

• Reference: 2008/0208
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Given that the Assembly has conducted studies into the sewage system and Thames Water leakage and has been involved with the Environment Minister regarding the interceptor tunnel, which is being built, why is the Mayor carrying out these water consultancy contracts?

• Reference: 2008/0209
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Even if you accept the premise that there is a need for the three water consultancy contracts you propose, would it not have been more appropriate to carry out these pieces of research prior to the production of the Mayor's draft water strategy last year?

• Reference: 2008/0297
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Tarique Gauffur has stated at the recent EDCST Committee meeting, that if in the event of foreign police, armed or otherwise being deployed on British Soil during the 2012 Games, he would not have guaranteed Command and Control over such officers without legislation. Can you ensure that the government introduce such legislation to insure against such a situation?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Understood. Then, quite separately, as you also point out in your report, there is a separate police investigation into the Green Badge Taxi School which you are cooperating with?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Yes, thank you very much, so that is an internal review. Your conclusions in the report, which I have read and which were submitted to the LDA Board, really put it in these terms, do they not, as Mike Tuffrey has said; in a nutshell, of the six you concentrated on, four require further work, three of those specifically involve the police and we do not know whether Brixton Base will involve the police or not because it is too early to say yet; you need to do further work. Is that a fair conclusion?