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• Reference: 2008/2650
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Taking into account your proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, how do you think your policy will impact not only on London's under pressure labour market but on the considerable number of homeless people, many of whom are ex-servicemen, who will be sleeping on the streets of this city throughout the winter?

• Reference: 2008/2697
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

How many LCN+ borough cycling schemes put forward for 2009/10 were unfunded in the Transport for London settlement with the boroughs? What is the total number of schemes which have either gone, or are going, through the LCN+ CRISP study process, and now remain without funding?

• Reference: 2008/2651
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

In the November MQT you stated that you would give the same help and assistance to all Londoners regardless of ethnic background. In light of this and considering the amount of resources committed towards BME groups, can you identify any white British ethnic groups that you have directed funding or resources towards since you were elected as Mayor.

• Reference: 2008/2652
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

In the October Mayor's Question Time I raised the point that I believed Members should have a freeze on pay rises and that the money should be donated to a charity for the elderly. I advised you I would be donating a day's wages and any pay increases to Help the Aged, you said 'I'm sure that will be more than matched by everyone in this room.' I have since donated a day's wage and have just donated the full backdated amount I received in my November pay packet. As a person that was in the room can you confirm...

• Reference: 2008/2653
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Considering your plans for the sighting of another airport in the Thames Estuary, are you aware of the potentially disastrous tidal consequences of such a project if it is not designed and engineered accordingly and have you researched this properly?

• Reference: 2008/2654
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Bearing in mind the Mayor's unfortunate track record filling major public appointments, how does he justify recruiting Mr Doug Oakervee to oversee the first feasibility study into the proposed 'Floating Airport'? The Mayor is on record as saying he wants this airport modeled on the Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok airport, the opening of which involved Mr Oakervee's project team. The Hong Kong Legislative Council's Inquiry strongly criticised Mr Oakervee's numerous failings on the project.

• Reference: 2008/2706
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Can you provide a list of individual police operations which incurred an overtime cost of more than £100,000 in 2007/08, and provide details of the total overtime cost incurred by each operation included on this list?

• Reference: 2008/2707
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Will you develop a new planning target (in addition to your investment target of 50,000 gross additional affordable homes by 2011) for the net supply of new build affordable homes, having scrapped your predecessor's target that 50 per cent of all additional housing should be affordable?

• Reference: 2008/2708
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

What proportion of London households earn £72,000 or less a year?

• Reference: 2008/2709
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Do you intend London households earning up to £72,000 a year to be eligible for assistance from all intermediate housing products, or only from those products offered under your First Steps programme?