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• Reference: 2012/3868
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Further to MQ3360/2012, when do you expect your review of the future use of the National Sports Centre to be completed?

• Reference: 2012/3869
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

I am concerned by the recommendation in the Education Inquiry that you should support schools to redesign their buildings and to 'do more with less', essentially reconfiguring the layout of schools in order to fit in more pupils and address the shortage of school places. Do you not agree that this is a step towards 'shrinking schools', which might have inadequate space for activities outside the classroom and could threaten the inclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools? On this basis, will you reject this particular recommendation?

• Reference: 2012/3870
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

One of the recommendations of the Education Inquiry was to target apprenticeships and mentoring opportunities towards children in care and care leavers. How many apprenticeships across the GLA Group have been provided for children in care or care leavers to date?

• Reference: 2012/3871
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

One of the recommendations in the Education Inquiry was to target apprenticeships and mentoring opportunities towards children in care and care leavers. How many of the young people who have mentored through your programme to date are children in care or care leavers?

• Reference: 2012/3872
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How do you explain the decision to award the University of East London (UEL) a further £51,000 over the next financial year to train and support mentors, when they have failed dramatically to deliver on your original ambition for the establishment of 1,000 mentoring relationships over the initial three year period?

• Reference: 2012/3873
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Now that you have appointed a managing agent, Rocket Science, to administer funds and carry out evaluation of your mentoring programme, will you also direct them to monitor the elements being run by the University of East London (UEL) in order to achieve some consistency across the monitoring process?

• Reference: 2012/3804
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

How will TfL implement the learning from the International Benchmarking exercise that they are taking part in with the help of their secondee from Copenhagen?

• Reference: 2012/3805
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Have you made a formal application to the Department for Transport to enable you to begin trials of cycle specific traffic lights?

• Reference: 2012/3806
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Why exactly was the Victoria to Lewisham Cycle Superhighway cut short?

• Reference: 2012/3807
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

During the election you promised to 'Make sure the Cycle Superhighways programme is completed to Love London, Go Dutch standards' by signing the Love London, Go Dutch pledge. Will you confirm that this promise applies to the recent plans for Cycle Superhighway 5?