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• Reference: 2013/0005-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

What do you perceive will be the impact on London of housing related welfare reforms - including linking the uprating of Local Housing Allowance to the Consumer Price Index rather than rent inflation and introducing under-occupation penalties - given London's existing shortages of affordable rented accommodation and overcrowding problems?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 13 March 2013

I wondered if I could very quickly ask Mayor Pipe a question on the Ministerial statement yesterday on the 'bedroom tax'. It appears to me that what is being said is rather than change the actual proposals so that the categories talked about are exempt, what is being done is that the Government is asking local authorities to use discretionary payments to effectively pay that money back. Is that right? Can you explain what the process would be and, importantly, is the Government actually funding this?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So you are reasonably confident that the figures will be achievable?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Now some of those items might be either subject to overrun, and therefore higher costs, or it is very likely that the cost of transport will increase at a fairly high inflation rate. How are you tackling that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Can we move on to the budget item where we have absolutely no information, which is transport. We have a very exact figure of £794 million. What does this cover for the ODA core costs?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I was going to ask for slightly more than Geoff Pope has requested, which was if you can provide us, at the least, with a breakdown now of the transport costs which are, if you like, capital; the investment in the Jubilee Line upgrade and so on, and the revenue costs which relate to the operational matters that you have described?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I still find it extraordinary that your idea of producing facilities that are at least as good includes a facility of a road racing track that is both sides of a main road. That is just ludicrous.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

When I was in the negotiations with the LDA it was never, ever suggested that the track that the Eastway Users' Group would go back to would be on two sides of a main road. I can assure you. I was there. It was never even suggested.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Can I come back to some of the specifics? Take the Eastway Users' Group specifically, which is what my prime concern is about and about which, as you know, I have been negotiating quite a lot with your officials. First of all your officials told me that British Cycling was in favour of the application that you had put in. British Cycling told me last night that they are certainly not in favour of it, and they referred me to their website. Their website describes the plans that you have as `unacceptable' and I understand from them that that has...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to put it on record I think it is totally unacceptable, particularly when your officers tell me that the way to enhance it is to put some screening up. The whole situation is appalling. It is not the way that you should be thinking. We are supposed to be leaving a sports legacy, and this is not the way to leave a sports legacy for cyclists.