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• Reference: 2002/0293-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What is the GLA doing to assist the NHS in utilising the skills of medically qualified refugees and asylum seekers? .

• Reference: 2002/0294-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Have you discussed with the Fire Authority how you can input into their work in reducing fires from happening with those families or individuals most at risk, and reducing injury and death when they do? .

• Reference: 2002/0295-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

As part of encouraging a healthier London, what work is being undertaken with London Boroughs to promote awareness of green spaces and waterway? What work is being done to identify the causes of health inequalities within, as well as between, boroughs? How can the GLA assist boroughs and the NHS address these inequalities? .

• Reference: 2002/0820
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

In a Press Release on 23.10.02 you reported that 341 people had been arrested in the first four months of operation of the Transport Policing Initiative. How many were charged? What independent appraisal of the operation of the scheme is taking place? .

• Reference: 2002/0936
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

What work have you done with the MPA and HM Customs to deveop an effective programme to prevent the illiegal trade in endangered spieces? What work have you done with the MPA and others to ensure species protection legislation is enforced in London? .

• Reference: 2002/0256-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The MPA Finance Committee report of 14/10/02 states in para 37 that `increased counter-terrorism costs over and above the level of specific government grant funding" are set to cost £11m. As a substantial number of officers have been transferred into SO units, a lot into anti-terrorism roles, do you think that the government should be providing a substantial increase in the grant given to the MPA for its national responsibilities in general and counter-terrorism work in particular? Do you think that the budgeted 2% increase each year for the next 4 years in the amount given by central grant in...

• Reference: 2002/0648
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Does the Mayor have any plans to make membership of the Transport Consultative Committee more inclusive and representative of full-time workers, who tend to commute more at peak times and who at present may find it difficult to attend regular daytime meetings without taking annual leave, by, for example, consulting members out of office hours? .

• Reference: 2002/0649
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Why has the A40, a major arterial route into and out from London, been reduced from three lanes to two lanes at the Target Underpass? .

• Reference: 2002/0650
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Will the Mayor join me in condemning the racist and intemperate remarks made by Piara Khabra, Member of Parliament for Southall, against the Somali community? .

• Reference: 2002/0651
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

The Greater London Authority Disability Action Working Group, chaired by Lee Jasper, has met on several occasions to discuss access for the disabled to both the former GLA headquarters at Romney House and out new headquarters at City Hall, and has produced proposals for a disability strategy whereby the GLA should be "an Exemplar on Disability" promoting accessibility of the environment for all Londoners. Why has the Mayor not put this work into action with respect to the Authority's occupation of the City Hall building and when does he expect to put this into action? .