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• Reference: 2015/3751
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

What changes do you anticipate to the London Plan or other planning guidance as a result of your new action plan to help tackle flooding risks in London?

• Reference: 2015/3301
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

How will you be taking forward the Government's recent announcement to enable the delivery of Starter Homes in London?

• Reference: 2015/0402
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

In December you visited The Institute of Cancer Research in Belmont, where you made clear that you strongly supported the plans to expand to become the second biggest campus of its kind in the world. What effect will these plans have on the business case for the Sutton Tram Extension?

• Reference: 2013/3928
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 06 November 2013

What are the financial challenges facing the Royal Parks over the next few years?

• Reference: 2013/3931
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 November 2013

What changes have you made to your policies in order to cope with the increase in cycling and the Mayor’s desire to provide safe routes for people to cycle along?

• Reference: 2013/0009-1
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Can you expand on the benefits of allowing local and regional government to make greater use of prudential borrowing to finance capital investment?

• Reference: 2013/0010-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Given the legislative changes that would be required to devolve some of the more far-reaching revenue raising powers identified in the London Finance Commission's Raising the Capital report, what measures could be implemented more quickly and without recourse to Parliament?

• Reference: 2013/0011-1
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

What should the next steps be for taking forward the recommendations of the London Finance Commission's report?

• Reference: 2013/0012-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Given the windfall gains that land and property owners benefit from when transport infrastructure is built, could a tax on those gains help pay for the infrastructure?

• Reference: 2013/0013-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Darren Johnson (Chair): We then move to item 4, which is the question and answer session on the London Finance Commission (LFC) and we welcome Professor Tony Travers, the Chair of that Commission, to answer questions. Each group has a lead-off question, but we will begin with a brief opening statement from Professor Travers.