• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: Mr Mayor, you mentioned a turn-up-and-go service. I refer to the ‘turn-up-and-gone’ service, which was in meltdown yesterday on the second day of the new timetable around London Bridge with Southern and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR). It was an absolute disgrace what happened yesterday morning. I went to East Croydon Station to see a complete array of ‘delayed’ signs but across the whole south there was awful service. It is the second day of a new timetable of the new franchise holder, GTR Southern. That is the first point to make. I met some of their leaders...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: One of the benefits that we enjoy as a city in the United Kingdom (UK) is that very lethal weapons are less available to potential terrorists than they are in a lot of other countries around the world, but that does not stop people trying to commit acts with smaller weapons. Sometimes the police officers who get to those types of incidents are not armed with live rounds. Is it worth considering rolling out more Tasers to police officers on the beat so that they are able to neutralise that type of threat from a distance?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

James Cleverly AM MP: Mr Mayor, will you join me in sending out a very clear and unambiguous message to our armed police officers that in the event of a terrorist incident or other dangerous armed incident, as long as they act with professionalism and within the rules of engagement laid down for them, they will always have our backing if they feel the need to use lethal force?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: I just wanted to clarify slightly on the point that you made on the police firearms policy. Am I right in thinking that there has been no change in police operations in firearms and that we do not have a ‘shoot-to-kill policy’; we have what is called a ‘shoot-to-stop’ policy? There is this idea that the police who are discharging their weapons at somebody who, presumably, is presenting a threat to either them or others would somehow try to clip the gun out of their hand or shoot them in the leg to disable them. They...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

James Cleverly AM MP: Mr Mayor, do you agree with me that one of the Members of this Assembly still, despite all of the discussions we had through the production of the Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5) and despite the fact that he sat for a number of years on LFEPA, seems not to understand the relationship between the mayoralty and LFEPA, and LFEPA and the London Fire Brigade?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Mayor, Assembly Member Shah has been off the Fire Authority [LFEPA] for a while, which might account for his slightly hazy grip of some of the facts around this. He repeatedly, during his questioning, referred to ‘your’ drive to remove appliances and ‘your’ proposals to remove appliances from the run. Will you join me in recognising the fact that you have no proposals at all at this point in time?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, I must say I did agree with what Val [Shawcross CBE AM] was saying until she mentioned the congestion charge. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): You see; the cat is out of the bag. I hope Zac’s [Goldsmith MP, Conservative mayoral candidate] people are watching. This is a sensational development. Richard Tracey AM: I did agree with what she was saying about the bus services because involving both Val’s constituency and mine there is the problem of Vauxhall Bridge with a massive tailback of buses both into Kennington and indeed north of the river...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: Boris, if you look around the city there is a lot of wonderful, iconic construction work going on around the place. New buildings are going up everywhere. I am surprised, travelling around the centre of town, how many of those developers seems to have found it necessary to extend beyond the curtilage of the development and appropriate parts of the road and indeed parts of the pavement, if we go on to Val’s [Shawcross CBE AM] later question about walking. All of these add to congestion as well.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, what do you think of a council that is planning to scrap its Meals on Wheels service and replace it with, among other options, referring people to foodbanks instead?

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Kemi Badenoch AM: Mr Mayor, I only wanted to echo Assembly Member Arnold’s calls for a knife amnesty and I was very pleased to hear your response. I am just reiterating that it is a cross‑party issue. It is something that we are all concerned about and I know that you are concerned about it as well. It does have the advantage of not imposing onerous burdens or regulations on all the schools or all the licensing across London; it is something that would be fairly easy and cost-effective to do.