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• Reference: 2007/2630
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

As well as the sponsorship just announced from the Core GLA the Aluna clock has received sponsorship from the Docklands Light Railway. Can you confirm what the level of sponsorship raised from the Docklands Light Railway was for this project? Are you aware any other parts of the wider GLA considering donating to this project? If so can you list the sponsorship levels from any other areas of the GLA?

• Reference: 2007/2631
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

According to www.alunatime.org an Aluna clock will apparently cost between £4 and £5 million to produce and sponsorship so far has reached about £300,000 for the world wide project- with clocks both in the UK and Australia planned. After the funding has been raised and a feasibility study has been carried out the clocks will take two years to build. With all these factors in mind when do you expect the UK clock to be operational?

• Reference: 2007/2643
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

MA3229 states that the GLA will 'enter into a letter agreement with Mark Quinn to protect the GLA's interests in 'Alison Lapper Pregnant'. Can you explain what precisely this agreement will mean and why the GLA's interests in the artwork were not already protected within original agreements with Mr Quinn?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Before we move on to the next question I wonder if I could just ask you this: you have referred, Neale and David, to the relatively short time period covered by the Strategy. Leaving aside issues of the outcomes of elections and so on, what is anticipated in terms of roll forward of the Strategy, revision after it has been adopted and when a new one would come, or a revised one would come, onto the stocks to take us beyond 2011?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Mr Mayor, the question from Geoff Pope which we have covered in this was are you actually still confident that Crossrail will begin operating in 2017?

• Reference: 2007/2281
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Please supply, broken down by borough, the number of photocards issued to date for people on Income Support who wish to claim half price travel on the bus and tram network . Do TfL still predict that take up for this scheme will eventually be around 162,500 people - 65% of those eligible- rather than the full 250,000? How long will it take to get to a 65% level of take up?

• Reference: 2007/2295
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

What steps will you take to persuade the Aviation Minister to publish the study on methods of measuring aircraft noise ['Attitudes to Noise from Aviation Sources in England' ANASE] which the Government ordered six years ago and is reported to have been received in draft three months ago. Do you agree that the Government should ensure that the public and local authorities should have the full facts, to avoid any impression that consultation on a third runway is not a sham?

• Reference: 2007/2307
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

What was the rationale behind the decision to make the long running Thames Festival, 'the Mayor's Thames Festival?' as mentioned in MA 3175

• Reference: 2007/2308
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

A/ Since April 2006 how many Chinese companies have listed on the London Stock Exchange? How many of these companies were assisted in their listing by the Mayor's Office in Beijing? In what ways were they assisted? B/How many Chinese companies listed on the London Stock Exchange in the 18 months preceding April 2006? C/ Since April 2006 how many Chinese companies set up their European headquarters in London? How many of these companies were assisted in setting up these headquarters by the Mayor's Office in Beijing? In what ways were they assisted? D/ How many Chinese companies set up...

• Reference: 2007/2309
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

In answer to question 1042/2007 in May you stated that 'Generally, I will oppose any forthcoming local development document from any borough council that does not generally conform to my London Plan policies on affordable housing.' Now you are promoting a development on Potters Field that includes less than your target 50% affordable housing units, only some 29%. What has caused your change of heart on this issue?