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• Reference: 2008/0526
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

In the Mayor's Draft Health Inequalities Strategy, "Living Well in London", where will the balance lie between centrally imposed direction and decision making at the local level? Isn't there a tension between strategic objectives 3 and 5?

• Reference: 2008/0527
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The Government's recent paper on obesity, "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives", states, "the Government will... ensure that the Thames Gateway and the Growth Areas and Growth Points are exemplars of best practice." Has the Mayor had any discussions about what this will mean in practice, and what changes may be made to the Thames Gateway development?

• Reference: 2008/0528
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Following the answer to MQT 206/2008, will the Get Set London Roadshow feature the Mayor of London logo and if so should it continue travelling during the purdah period?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I do not believe the data will demonstrate how many Londoners are losing out specifically as opposed to UK citizens in general. You may remember I have questioned you before on the fact that there is a great deficit in Londoners actually getting employment. The LSC (Learning and Skills Council) when it came in to have lunch with us did admit that there was something like a 39% unemployment rate in London. You then said, when I questioned you about that, that that counts mothers at home with babies. I think that is the first time any government has wanted...

• 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?