• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Fiona Twycross AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, as you will be aware the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy is due to be reviewed next year, and I wondered if you could comment on what your focus will be when looking a priorities for a new strategy?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: My question is to the Commissioner. This is about the blue light collaboration. The Police and Crime Bill published on 10 February 2016 when enacted will place duty on police, fire and rescue and ambulance services to collaborate. Do you think that the new duty to collaborate, in the words of Dave Brown QFSM, the Chief Operations Officer for the London Fire Brigade, moves there from collaborated through goodwill to collaboration through being embedded in policy and governance? Do you agree this a more formal relationship now? First of all, can you comment on that?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. Could I wish the Mayor Eid Mubarak to start off. Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): Thank you very much. It’s great to spend Eid with you guys, rather than my family. Andrew Dismore AM: I will take your advice on that. Could I ask you, this is to the Mayor, the Commissioner is report in The Guardian today as having written that between 24 June and 2 July 2016 there were 599 reports of race hate crimes since the EU referendum. Normally on any given day there are between 25 and 50 such incidents...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Unmesh Desai AM: Commissioner, as the Mayor has just said a few minutes ago, there is a huge amount of uncertainty hanging there right now. We all have to accept the results of the referendum. Let me ask you specifically how the referendum affects the MPS in two or three areas. Firstly, your partnership working with other local police forces: what is your initial assessment of impact that the referendum result will have on that partnership working?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 July 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I am pleased to hear, Mr Mayor, that tackling knife crime is a priority for you and is one of the greatest policing challenges we face in the capital, and it has been referenced at the weekend, a 16-year-old boy stabbed to death in Notting Hill, the fourth teenager to have been killed on our streets this year. It is clear we need to start investing in prevention in order to help reduce knife crime on the streets. Something in the campaign you talked about is a six-point plan to tackle knife crime, but this morning...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2016

Fiona Twycross AM: I am delighted to hear that you are working with that Government to address some of the issues that we have had unanimous agreement on across all parties here on the Assembly and I am pleased to hear that you are prioritising finding a solution to this issue. Yesterday at the Economy Committee we heard how much of an issue it was. As well as working with Government on this, what efforts will you make to look at ways that London councils can be helped to identify and apply for a right to exemptions on some of...

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 22 June 2016

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. I hope, like me, you were a fan of the old BBC comedy series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. There is a wonderful line in that series that says, “If you are in a hole, stop digging”. Please just apologise to Londoners, as Assembly Member Prince has advised you to do. Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): What was the question? Was the question: will you stop digging? Tony Devenish AM: Are you going to apologise to Londoners over your fares breach of your promise?

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 22 June 2016

Kemi Badenoch AM: I have seen the exchange. I am afraid I have not seen any subsequent tweet that refutes that. If you were able to give a reference, that would be great. Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): A question to the Mayor, please. Kemi Badenoch AM: My question to the Mayor is: it is quite clear that even members of his own party did not understand his policy, which means that either he was deliberately unclear or he has broken an election policy; which is it?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 22 June 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I was going to ask you about broadband. Do you agree that access to high‑speed broadband is vital to London and Londoners, especially for those people who have to work from home because it reduces demand on public transport and other services?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 22 June 2016

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Firstly, can I say that I very much welcome this evidence-led review into London security and endorse everything that you just said in your answer to Assembly Member Kemi Badenoch. As you know, I have already written to you regarding my views about this review, the terms of reference and so on. I must also say that I am a bit confused by the bizarre line of questioning that we just heard. Surely, how can you predict the outcome of a review until you actually have the review itself? That is precisely the...