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• Reference: 2008/0708
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Will the Mayor provide an update on whether he has decided to launch a legal challenge to the Post Offices closure plans in London?

• Reference: 2008/0796
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Given your open contempt for the London Assembly and many of its members, as expressed in answer to my question 532/2008, do you consider that its £8 million budget would be better spent by the Evening Standard and BBC, which are not subject to the same red tape in obtaining information from your office?

• Reference: 2008/0799
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

In concentrating his attacks on the US Embassy, why does the mayor refuse to acknowledge that many more embassies, including European Union countries, are joining the rebellion, and why is he refusing to test the matter by seeking a court ruling on whether the congestion charge is a charge or a tax?

• Reference: 2008/0709
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Following on from the answer to MQT 526/2008, will the Mayor ensure that the findings of the Integrated Impact Assessment of his draft Health Inequalities strategy are published?

• Reference: 2008/0710
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Is the Mayor planning any changes to his draft water strategy, Water Matters, as a result of Defra's water strategy for England, Future Water?

• Reference: 2008/0711
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Will the Mayor provide further details of the pilot advancement and careers service being developed by DIUS and the Mayor, including the level of the financial commitment by the GLA and the functional bodies?

• Reference: 2008/0712
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Whilst Wandsworth Borough Council welcomes the increased funding for the London Youth Offer including the LDA contribution, we are concerned that a flawed funding formula (previously used to allocate Positive Activities for Young People funding) has now been applied to the London Youth Offer resulting in smaller Boroughs with less need receiving more funding than Wandsworth (e.g. Kensington and Chelsea). Could the Mayor please explain and clarify this situation

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I wonder why it is taking you so long to get your legal advice? There is a little suspicion about your press release about what you are going to do that somehow we will not get this legal advice in time.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am very glad of your support and I think the Mayor's voice is very important in this sort of thing. One of the issues that I think is how on earth did they make their decisions in London as to which post office would close? Did they just look at a map and one mile as the crow flies? Roger [Evans], my colleague, reiterated last time that there was one of his closures and they had to go across a major road and underneath a tunnel. I think that must be one of the things that we should look...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I read that there was a local authority going to take over the post offices that were mooted for closure in their patch. Is it Essex? That is worthwhile looking at to see what in fact the arrangements would be and what the legality is.