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• Reference: 2011/0839
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell stated that the Police would not speak out against Asian sex gangs and the underage rape of white girls which had been going on for decades for fear of appearing 'institutionally racist'. Do you think the reluctance of appearing 'institutionally racist' highlighted by the former Detective Superintendent also applies to the Metropolitan Police and does the Macpherson report impede the Metropolitan Police's ability to be impartial and fair to the white community with regard to race hate crime?

• Reference: 2011/0840
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'the mayor will work with the taxi manufacturing industry to develop an affordable zero emission taxi'. Have any concrete discussions taken place to date and is 2015 a realistic timescale for reduced taxi emissions of 60%?

• Reference: 2011/0841
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state ' the mayor's Electric Vehicle delivery Plan aims to have 1,000 electric vehicles in the GLA group fleet by 2015". How many Electric Vehicles are currently in the fleet?

• Reference: 2011/0842
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'the Mayor through TFL is aiming to work with partners to deliver AT LEAST 25,000 electric vehicle charging points by 2015". How many electric vehicle charging points are there in London currently?

• Reference: 2011/0843
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state 'As electric vehicle drivers currently have to register in every borough they charge in, the pan-London scheme will bring together the publicly accessible charge points in London into one network and will be developed in early 2011'. Is this network up and running?

• Reference: 2011/0844
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state ' However, it is anticipated that the majority of the additional demand can be met without substantial additional generating capacity'. Who anticipates this scenario?

• Reference: 2011/0845
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

In your Climate Change Mitigation papers you state ' These plans include the aim to deploy up to 150 Hydrogen-powered vehicles in the capital by 2012 including a three- year demonstration of at least five hydrogen-powered busses from 2010'. Are there 5 hydrogen-powered busses currently in use in the capital?

• Reference: 2011/0846
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Do you think London taxpayers, in these very financially difficult times, are happy to fund the many cultural events this year mentioned in your Mayor's reply to question 649 / 2011, which in my opinion have no bearing on London / Britain or its cultural way of life?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. I would like to take a step back as we look towards legacy. We are all aware in this Chamber that the host boroughs of east London are some of the poorest locations in the capital. 70,000 unemployed adults are in the seven east London boroughs that neighbour the Olympic site. I am looking at the foundations of a legacy. How is it possible to truly call this a legacy when, at this moment in time, of the 5,381 employed people on the site, only 20% are from the five hosting boroughs and 48% are non-British? This...

• Reference: 2011/0661
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 23 February 2011

If river based operators are reluctant to use ultra-low sulphur diesel, would you apply punitive measures to force them to comply as you are doing with road-based taxis?