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• Reference: 2007/0108-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

How do you intend to fulfill the promise of a bonfire of bureaucracy?

• Reference: 2007/0113-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Can you please supply a summary of the impact of the 2012 Olympics on the MPS Budget between now and 2013? There have been suggestions that some aspects of security in the Budget for 2012 are not allowed for in either the MPS Budget or the revised 2012 Budget. Please can you state what is being done to ensure that London council tax payers will not be required to fund this expenditure.

• Reference: 2007/0114-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

How much has the MPS spent on 'carbon offsetting' between 2004 and 2007, and is it not absurd that the EU will in future force us to pay VAT on these additional costs to the taxpayer?

• Reference: 2007/0115
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Policing at Notting Hill Carnival was successful but there remain flashpoints (in particular at the end of the final day). Having been present and witnessed some of these difficulties at first hand, I can confirm that there is general agreement that the MPS handled them well, and that earlier intelligence-led operations and planning decisions had a very positive impact, but is there anything further that can be done to try and prevent the Monday problems?

• Reference: 2007/0079-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What proportion of social housing is currently allocated to migrants and asylum seekers granted leave to stay?

• Reference: 2007/2489
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Do you agree with the recommendations made by Kensington and Chelsea council's Commission on Retail Conservation, that developers should be forced to include 'affordable retail' units within shopping centres in the same way as affordable housing?

• Reference: 2007/2487
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

The fashion and clothing industry is one of Britain's biggest success stories. What specifically did London Fashion Week gain from the LDA's funding of over £600,000, that it couldn't have gained from other sources?

• Reference: 2007/2490
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

The Mayor's response to the YouGov/Taxpayers' Alliance Poll findings which showed declining support amongst Londoners for the Olympics was that the Taxpayers' Alliance is "a dodgy organisation" that "no reputable polling organisation would have taken on". YouGov complies with the same Code of Practice as his preferred pollster, Ipsos MORI. When YouGov conducted a similar poll on the Olympics some years ago, it found support for the Olympics and the Mayor was happy to quote it. At what point does the Mayor consider that YouGov became "disreputable"? Is YouGov still one of the twenty service providers to the GLA Group's...

• Reference: 2007/2493
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

There is widespread agreement that London City Airport is vital to the economy of the City and must not be under threat of closure. Now that Crossrail is to proceed, can the Mayor end the uncertainty he created over London City Airport when he stated in a reply to us (MQT 2379/2006) that "any expansion [of City Airport], which is likely in the run up to the Olympics, should not prejudice an overall review of the airport's role following the construction of Crossrail."

• Reference: 2007/2494
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

In his capacity as a self-proclaimed London nationalist, would the Mayor support measures to alleviate the effect of disproportionately high house prices on the London housing market?