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• Reference: 2013/4376
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

In your answer to my question about meeting air quality targets (2013/3909) you said you expected London to have the best air quality of any major city - is this on the basis that other cities air quality will get worse?

• Reference: 2013/4377
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

In your answer to my question about youth unemployment (2013/3916) you said that 'Black and ethnic minorities' will continue to be a priority, have any targets been set?

• Reference: 2013/4378
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Will the money from the sale of South Norwood Police Station be ring fenced and used on other policing priorities in South Norwood, like a shop front counter to report crime? If not, I would be grateful if you could let me know why this will not be the case.

• Reference: 2013/4379
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

John Major's recently commented that energy price rises of more than 10% were "unacceptable" and called on the Government to take action as people were being put in a position of choosing between 'heating or eating'. Do you agree with this view, and will you be able to do anything to help Londoners based on the pledges you made to decentralise the energy market in London?

• Reference: 2013/4380
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

In response to my MQ 2013/3904 you advised that Dr Yvonne Doyle had chaired the first pan- London TB board meeting. Could you please advise: when did TB board meet, are the papers available from the meeting, when will the next one be and are they open for observers to attend?

• Reference: 2013/4381
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

From the £110 million of funding from the Growing Places Fund allocated by the London Enterprise Panel, £2.5 million has been allocated to support an increase in the number of employers offering apprenticeships in London. Can you outline exactly what this support entails and detail any breakdown in funds?

• Reference: 2013/4359
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Information from the GLA's London Dashboard shows the London unemployment rate rose to 8.6% in August, and equates to 372,000 people looking for work, about 13,000 more in August compared with the month previous. This is despite the national rate going down - why is this happening on your watch?

• Reference: 2013/4360
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

When you answered my question in June 2246/2013 you referred to the £2.5 million that LEP has given to the Growing Places Fund to support the Apprenticeships Campaign. What results have been collected on the success of this scheme?

• Reference: 2013/4361
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Fifteen months after you received £111m from a government fund designed to help boost economic growth in the capital we learnt that you have only spent £375,000 of this. This equates to 6.3% of the Growing Places Fund which has been formally approved for projects across the capital, of which 0.3% had actually been spent. Why has there been such slow progress?

• Reference: 2013/4362
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Recent figures have revealed that two in three of the former Remploy staff are still out of work following the Government's decision to close their factories. Have you offered to help those affected by the closure of the factory in Barking?