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• Reference: 2004/1740
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How do you intend to enforce TfL's instructions to the operator of the T31 bus service (First Orpington) to comply with the requirement for First Orpington drivers to switch off their vehicle engines when parked for more than a few minutes at the bus stand outside 95 Markfield, Court Wood Lane, Croydon?

• Reference: 2004/1741
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Further to your answer to my question 1057/2004 in September, I am given to understand that the London Borough of Sutton intend to dispose of their trade waste at the Benedicts Wharf site in Mitcham, part of the London Borough of Merton. I understand this is due to the fact that Croydon are only allowing local businesses to access their trade waste sites and that the Garth Road site in Merton will not be able to handle an extra 10,000 tons of trade waste per year coming from the London Borough of Sutton. Using the rough yardstick of half a...

• Reference: 2004/1884
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Is the Mayor completely happy with the 11 Primary Care Trusts (Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Barking and Dagenham, City and Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark) that will receive funding priority for new public health schemes before the others? Is this largesse an example of political favouritism?

• Reference: 2004/1886
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

In the recent public health White Paper the Government promised that local and regional authorities would not incur any extra expenditure as a result of the policies proposed in it. Does the Mayor believe the Government's assurances?

• Reference: 2004/1889
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Is the Mayor being consulted in any way over the contents of the new guidance on health and neighbourhood renewal the Government plans to publish in spring 2005?

• Reference: 2004/1892
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Can the Mayor confirm that Transport for London is sending out letters to motorists over 75 years of age giving them guidance about eyesight and driving, and how, if true, he can justify duplicating the work of the DVLA?

• Reference: 2004/1898
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Why are residents of Epsom and Ewell receiving free copies of The Londoner, what other areas outside of Greater London are receiving The Londoner, and at what cost?

• Reference: 2004/1924
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You are aware no doubt of the Heath Robinson arrangements that exist at the present time when Met Police officers are required to go down any of the S12 stations (123 of them), whereby officers must ask an LUL member of staff with a radio communicator to accompany them or seek to borrow an LUL radio so that Met Police will have communicaion underground to a control room, albeit not their own. LUL is in the process of upgrading their radio systrem and I believe they have chosen the same infrastructure supplier as the Met. There is an opportunity to...

• Reference: 2004/0400-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

In regards to the evacuation of schoolchildren who may be evacuated away from parents, what measures have been introduced regarding a) legal powers over care of evacuated children b) short - medium domiciliary care, and c) reunification of parents?

• Reference: 2004/0403-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

What plans have been put in place regarding suitable transport for evacuating hospital patients in light of a terrorist attack?