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• Reference: 2012/0264
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Following your commitment to '[raise] Londoners' awareness of air quality and its effect on health' (MQ 3126/2011), what are you doing to ensure that schools and pupils in London are able to monitor air quality in their local area? Please detail how much funding has been made available for this purpose?

• Reference: 2012/0265
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

When do you expect the European Commission to make a decision regarding your £8 million bid to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support the development of the Cable Car across the River Thames?

• Reference: 2012/0266
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Please provide an up-to-date list of the food waste collection services offered in each London borough.

• Reference: 2012/0267
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Will you set a date by which all boroughs should have introduced food waste collections? If not, why not?

• Reference: 2012/0268
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

In view of statistics released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) which show that the proportion of household waste sent for recycling rose by just 0.7 per cent, from 31.8 percent in 2009/10 to 32.5 per cent 2010/11, how will you meet your target to recycle or compost 45 per cent of London's waste by 2015?

• Reference: 2012/0269
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

London sends around 460,000 tonnes of municipal food waste to landfill each year, yet planned schemes for anaerobic digestion will only provide a total capacity of c. 260,000 tonnes. Do you intend to address this shortfall? If so, how?

• Reference: 2012/0270
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Research has shown that household metering reduces water use by about ten per cent. Given that London is facing a possible drought this summer, why have initial targets - to meter all houses and blocks of flats by 2015, and all individual flats by 2020 - been delayed by 5 years in your adopted Water Strategy?

• Reference: 2012/0271
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Buildings owned by TfL at 16-22 Brownhill Road (SE6) have been largely empty since they were first purchased by the Department of Transport in 1987. Do you agree that releasing this site for development would help boost housing supply and also improve the environment for those living and working in the area?

• Reference: 2012/0272
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

As Chair of TfL will you ensure all the information necessary is provided so that the Secretary Of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government can finally consider whether to direct TfL to dispose of their interest in land at 16-22 Brownhill Road, Lewisham?

• Reference: 2012/0273
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 25 January 2012

Further to TfL's press release of 08 December 2011, how will you ensure that all buses in London's fleet are compliant with Euro IV (NOx) emissions standard by 2015, including the estimated 1,000 'Euro III' buses which are not currently funded for replacement or upgrade?