• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Mr Mayor, I heard the word ‘failure’ and for some reason the first person I thought of was Boris Johnson [MP, former Mayor of London], your predecessor and of course their Mayor. You have highlighted very helpfully in your answer to Assembly Member Boff some of Boris Johnson’s massive achievements: £320,000 of taxpayers’ cash wasted on water cannon he could not legally use, £40 million on overpriced buses that overheated and were basically mobile saunas, and of course £43 million on the botched Garden Bridge. Do you think that perhaps their mistake is thinking that a mayor should be judged...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

A point of personal explanation. As an asthma sufferer, I recently could not get a script filled fully. I had to go back a second time. There was another drug related to my asthma condition and I had to go to about four major outlets from a national chain before I could get half of that script filled. I would urge you to pick this up, Mayor, because it is an issue that now people are experiencing.

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

That was a wonderful piece of positivity from you about Brexit, Mr Mayor, and I thought, well, perhaps from spending nearly three years in the same room as me on occasions, I might have given you some of my optimism about Brexit. Unfortunately, today I have heard too much pessimism, I think. The language that some people use about Brexit is far too pessimistic. You talk about sleepwalking towards a cliff, crashing out and so on, but the people voted to leave the EU because the people were right in being optimistic. The people see this not as those things...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

EU migration has dropped to its lowest levels now almost for a decade. I think we have asked this question but can you just remind us and can you just check on any latest information on what impact this is having on the various sectors within our economy in London, both public and private?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

After the result of the [Brexit] referendum in 2015 there was a spike in hate crime and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has warned that there is a real possibility there will be a similar increase in reports in the coming months. I have raised this before with you. Do you share my and HMICFRS’s concerns over this possibility?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 March 2019

Returning to that earlier subject, if I may, Mayor, I will give you a more graphic example. I am proud to be a member of the Croydon Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID) Board on an advisory basis. In the budget last year [2017/18] under the previous scheme, they were able to add, in essence, six officers to the town centre to keep Croydon town centre safe within the budget that they had. Within the same budget this year [2018/19] under the new scheme, they could buy two‑and‑a‑quarter officers. They could add two officers to the town centre. This is...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, in view of that High Court challenge, are you satisfied that due process was followed in the purchase of the Silvertown Partnership by Lendlease and Starwood?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

Caroline Russell AM: Thank you. Just on the availability of rapid chargers, it is not only installing enough new ones, it is also making sure that the existing ones are actually working. We are hearing about people saying that they are often out of order. What are you doing specifically to make sure that the chargers that are already installed are reliably working?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

Florence Eshalomi AM: Commissioner, relations with some in the taxi and private hire industry seem to have broken down given the recent blockades and strikes happening outside Palestra. Can you tell me what you are doing to repair that relationship, please?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 07 February 2019

Florence Eshalomi AM: Apologies, kids. Mr Mayor, coming back to the ULEZ and the fact that it is the poorest Londoners who are suffering with poor air quality, the action that you are introducing will have a big impact on helping children like this in terms of improving their lungs. I know that there is a scrappage scheme you have launched and I should declare an interest in that I do have a car and I do drive but it is literally to Tesco’s and back. The fact is that there are a number of small businesses who are concerned...