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• Reference: 2011/1656
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Work and Pensions Minister Iain Duncan Smith said that large-scale immigration has made the poor poorer in the UK with thousands more people chasing unskilled jobs. Do you agree with the minister's comments and has mass immigration impacted Londoners living standards in contributing to make the poor poorer?

• Reference: 2011/1654
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

You have been calling for an amnesty for illegal immigrants since your election in 2008. Does the recently reported 161,000 + Asylum Seekers / Refugees/ Immigrants given leave to stay in Britain satisfy that call and will you now state that those remaining here illegally must be deported in the interests of social cohesion in London?

• Reference: 2011/1655
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

In your update between 10 March to 4 May you highlighted eight events or celebrations in respect of groups and organisations whose origins in my opinion do not appear to originate in the capital. This has been a constant trend in your updates since your election and no doubt underlines your determination to champion diversity. However, very rarely, if ever, do you champion events of non-immigrant Londoners, patriotism or the great historical legacies of London together with Londoners contribution to the world. Why is that?

• Reference: 2011/1657
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

If Metropolitan Police Officers have cause to enter the premises of a muslim household are the officers sensitive to the cultural needs of occupant(s) and what are the force's guidelines in the event of such action?

• Reference: 2011/1658
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Do you think your travel concessions for 16 to 18 year olds compounds obesity problems in London by discouraging some youngsters to walk to school, college or training etc., where the distances might only be a mile or so?

• Reference: 2011/1659
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

You are very vociferous about equality for all in London, however, is it possible your targeting of a special interest group, namely black boys brings equality objectives for all into disrepute? By targeting a special interest group with your Mentoring initiative is there a danger you are giving a subliminal message to all other Londoners that black boys are a particular problem in London?

• Reference: 2011/1660
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Can you clarify if the £100.00 annual charge for membership of the charging point network includes within the annual period the cost of charging a vehicle?

• Reference: 2011/1661
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Do you agree with Transport Minister Philip Hammond who called on London Businesses to allow flexible working of their employees during the Olympic Games in order to ease the crush of people using public transport during that period?

• Reference: 2011/1662
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

With a recent report suggesting London workers 'suffering nightmare long commutes in appallingly overcrowded carriages' do you think inflation busting fare increases is an insult to the travelling London public?

• Reference: 2011/1663
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Do you think Ken Livingstone should stand down as a 2012 London Mayoral candidate in light of his comments about Edward Lister being Local Government's equivalent to Ratko Mladic?