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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

What about our real Government in Brussels? Tim O'Toole did suggest that European Union rules might possibly be delaying the process because there are the state aid rules and if TfL were to take over the assets there is a chance that that might be opposed. Maybe a small chance, but it nonetheless means you have to provide all the information and get approval. Where are we with that?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Ultimately we have to get approval. London Underground has to provide the information to Government to propose to the European Commission. Has that all been done?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

I am not sure if you have pored over the Milan and Madrid websites of the fashion weeks recently. I have done so in the interests of this debate and essentially what Mary Reilly said is in fact what has happened, because Madrid and Milan, if you are looking for a certain BMI or certain models that are rated to be too skinny; they are all still there. The reality is this is very difficult to enforce; in fact even the under-16 rule is going to be very difficult to enforce for a lot of reasons. They do not know...

• Reference: 2007/2209
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Does the Mayor agree with Boris Johnson that members of the public should "have a go at thugs"?

• Reference: 2007/2210
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Further to the Mayor's commitment to conduct a quarterly jobs audit of the Olympics (MQT 1230/2007), please can he update us on the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost to date as a result of the 2012 Olympics?

• Reference: 2007/2211
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Would the Mayor agree with Gwyneth Dunwoody MP and Gisela Stuart MP that in the case of the EU Treaty, there is the need for a referendum?

• Reference: 2007/2214
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

The Independent Custody Volunteer (ICV) scheme is vital to ensure the rights of detainees in police cells. However, a number of Borough Panels have either collapsed or ceased to effectively function due to discontent with changes imposed by the Metropolitan Police Authority in recent reforms, a vote of no confidence in the scheme by the overwhelming majority of Panel Chairs, and the failure of the MPA to consult ICVs on changes to the final draft of the new scheme handbook. Can the Mayor undertake to bring pressure to bear that the MPA review - now postponed until October - fully...

• Reference: 2007/2215
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

If the idea of a London Single Non Emergency Number (101) is being revived, would the Mayor support One London's suggestion be broadened to encompass services in the way that New York's 311 service does?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

The question is, does it adequately cover the carbon cost? That is why we are working on our own scheme. If we stopped doing anything until we got our own scheme there would be a great chorus of disapproval saying we were undermining it. Whilst many of these schemes may be virtually worthless, at least they are there in the public consciousness and it raises awareness that something needs to be done. The objective is to make them worthwhile, rather than to abandon them.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

What you are doing then is spending public money - not your own, it is public money - on being able to fly. If you look at the Gleneagles summit, which the Foreign Minister said was carbon neutral; later on, just on very basic investigation, it proved not to be so. There are so many situations where an Evening Standard journalist, a Guardian journalist, will pick up the phone to BP or the Science Museum and say, `You have made a claim on your website about how effective this is', and five minutes later the claim is gone because it...