• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Stephen Knight AM: Mr Mayor, whatever the tactics earlier of the protesters raising the issue of lack of affordable housing in the capital, they did at least identify a very important issue, did they not? Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): They did. Stephen Knight AM: The lack of affordable housing is, to quote you, Mr Mayor, “the gravest crisis facing our city”. At the last meeting, Mr Mayor, I asked you whether or not you understood that instead of cutting the council tax over the next few years, as you propose, if that money were ring-fenced for funding affordable housing...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: I think all of us around this horseshoe realise that the police are under great financial pressure at the moment and an issue that Jenny [Jenny Jones, AM] has raised I was also going to raise about how it looks as if the police are now asking people to pay for protests. Secondly, I think all of us are concerned about funding for counterterrorism (CT). Your own Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has said that the Government is penny-pinching and it is a scandal that they are not passing on appropriate funding to the MPS. [Sir]...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, can we thank you for what you have been doing about the part-time fares and the off-peak point, which of course particularly impacted on the outer London boroughs. My colleague, Steve O’Connell, and indeed you, Mr Chairman, both have raised this particularly with you as having hit their constituents. Thank you very much for your prompt action. In future, could you ask TfL to publicise this sort of thing rather more graphically and rather more fully so that they can be scrutinised and also so that people living in those outer London areas do know...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

John Biggs AM: History will judge that this is a budget with two sides to it. The first is that you have failed to challenge the bloated budgets and opacity of TfL. Caroline Pidgeon is quite right. TfL can afford to reverse those decisions about outer London travellers quite easily and that will be taken up by my colleagues. The second part of it, though, is about the precept and council tax. I worry about your successor, whomever that is, whether it is a Conservative, Labour, Green or whatever. They are going to be facing £200 million-a-year cuts in their...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Obviously I welcome your decision about daily caps as far as it goes, but I do not think it helps those who perhaps work one day a week or who have very variable part-time work.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Len Duvall AM: The underlying point in this little exchange is about the transparency of your performance going forward so that we understand if an MDC is getting into difficulty whether you could outline those steps. However, let us go back. You mentioned the West Ham Club deal. If I can ask for Andrew Boff [AM], who is not present, we have still not seen a formal agreement between you and West Ham. We have seen bits of it published. Is that not part of the transparency of who is subsidising whom and who has a good deal? What are...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): I have five minutes to talk about skills. Would you agree with me that a highly skilled local population is key to the future success of Olympicopolis ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Chairman, London Legacy Development Corporation): Yes, of course. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): ‑‑ and a major driver in attaining the much-talked-about convergence across the Olympic boroughs and wider east London? Boris Johnson (Chairman, London Legacy Development Corporation): Yes. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): We heard in February, Mr Mayor, when you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced devolution of further...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): I have five minutes to talk about skills. Would you agree with me that a highly skilled local population is key to the future success of Olympicopolis ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Chairman, London Legacy Development Corporation): Yes, of course. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): ‑‑ and a major driver in attaining the much-talked-about convergence across the Olympic boroughs and wider east London? Boris Johnson (Chairman, London Legacy Development Corporation): Yes. Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Deputy Chair): We heard in February, Mr Mayor, when you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced devolution of further...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, we all know that this cultural centre is a real objective of yours, but can you just drill down into this and convince us that it is really the best form of regeneration for the east? This is a question that my colleague Andrew Boff [AM] would almost certainly have asked you had he been here.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, do you think the continued cuts to local government funding place a challenge not just on the boroughs but on the LLDC in terms of the delivery of the employment legacy? It is a success story. This is the partnership you are doing, working with the boroughs, getting people into employment.