• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Jenny Jones AM: Mr Mayor, you have said recently, “I am not particularly interested in this civil liberties stuff”, but do you not think that MPS surveillance, which costs a lot of money, should be targeted at people who are a risk of serious criminal activity?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: In the wake of the terrible events in Paris, the police concern for the Jewish community in London is the security of Jewish schools. Not all of them benefit from the grant to the CST for school security; for example, private nurseries. This worry is not surprising because in France in the very recent past Jewish schools have been attacked and children murdered.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: You will get the opportunity, Mr Mayor. Just to complete the cross‑party bashing of you on this particular issue, a family of four travelling off‑peak from my area will find their fares rising from £25 to an unbelievable £36. Yes, you may say this is a small number, but often these are people who cannot afford this sort of increase and I do not think it washes to say it is 2% or 3% or a small number of people. I would urge you very much, Mr Mayor, to go away and instruct your officials.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I am glad this morning that you now understand the issue that was raised last week with you about the Oyster off-peak and the impact it is having on those living in Zones 4-6. I have actually looked at your Mayoral Decision and it does say quite clearly in the executive summary - and so you will not have had to read the whole thing because I appreciate you are very busy - that the off-peak caps will be withdrawn. Why did you make this decision when it clearly was going to have such an impact...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chairman. The GLA Conservative group, Mr Mayor, has been campaigning for some time to encourage TfL to generate more commercial income in order to bear down on fares and to provide other benefits to fare-payers. In the last few weeks, there have been two sponsorship schemes announced. One is the Not On the High Street scheme for sponsoring the baby badges that pregnant women wear on the transport system. The other is the MBNA sponsorship of the Tube map. Both combined will bring many hundreds of thousands of pounds of commercial income to TfL and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Mr Chairman. Mr Mayor, does my memory serve me right that it was a politician called Ed Miliband [Leader of the Opposition and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] who encouraged us all to buy diesel cars a few years ago?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

James Cleverly AM: Actually, Mr Mayor, you went quite some way to pre‑empting my question. Obviously both the Southeastern franchise and the Bakerloo extension particularly affect my constituents, and I know that there was concern from MPs in northwest Kent that the service provided to their constituents would be reduced by a future Mayor potentially if they took control of the Southeastern franchise. Is there anything that you could do to hard code protections, for those commuters just outside London?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

John Biggs AM: This is very, very topical, and Mr Boff does not seem to understand that Waltham Forest is next door to Stratford. The question I have is: are you proud of the Olympic legacy or do you agree with Andrew Boff that hundreds of millions have been wasted on Olympic legacy projects? This came up in The Times in the New Year.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, all over London we have seen your police propaganda posters stuck on phone boxes and so on. The total cost of this was a staggering £562,884. Do you not think it would have done more for public confidence in the police if that more than £500,000 had been spent on extra police officers rather than propaganda posters?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Mayor, we had a very long and protracted debate over the London Safety Plan 5 (LSP5) in which the proposal to close certain fire stations was mooted. During that debate, the Labour Group on the Fire Authority, led by Fiona Twycross, opposed the sale of any fire stations, as you have mentioned. They did it on the basis of claiming that London would be less safe if we did that. That was a respectable argument to put. It was not one that I agreed with and it was not one that the Commissioner agreed with and...