• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Nicky Gavron AM: Eddie, I would like to ask some questions about some of the planning aspects of this, however first of all I want to ask you about the legislative process, which I am extremely ignorant on. An order has to be laid before Parliament? When does that have to happen and what is in it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Murad Qureshi AM: Can I raise two or three issues. The first one, Eddie, I am grateful that you mentioned the canals at the outset. It is just unfortunate they do not show up on the maps. I have no doubts that residential developers will be eying those canal sides very eagerly, because I suspect they can enhance the values of the developments by up to 40%. That is the residential side. However, I am more concerned that they are used during the works construction on the site. I think this is going to be a huge development site, over...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Stephen Knight AM: Just one quick point and that is, is it legally possible to spend Section 106 or CIL money outside the boundary of a planning authority?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Darren Johnson AM: I hear what you say about Wormwood Scrubs and the issue of permeability. I do not at all doubt the need to improve permeability. However, surely, this type of thing can be done through sensible negotiations between boroughs. You do not need to include it in the MDC to ensure pathways and gates to public open space, do you?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Sir Edward, one of the things, which Ealing wanted, was that they wanted North Acton to be excluded from the MDC. They had an understanding ‑ or they felt they had an understanding from you ‑ that it would be excluded. Can you show us why it is that it has not been excluded and why they may have come to this understanding?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Navin Shah AM: Chair, the same issue: Wormwood Scrubs. The campaigners and Wormwood Scrubs Charitable Trust are aware of explanation given by the Mayor and the negotiations you had. We have a letter, the Assembly Members have a letter from yesterday from the Trust, who maintain that they still have grave concerns about the inclusion of the Scrubs in MDC area. Is the message now therefore from you that you are not prepared to budge to the campaigners?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I just wanted to raise the issue of Wormwood Scrubs with you. You helpfully wrote to me yesterday ‑ following quite a lot of emails from alarmed residents of that area who have an interest in the Scrubs ‑ outlining the Mayor’s commitment to protecting it. However, could you just explain to us, if there are no designs on the Scrubs as such, why does it need to be included in the boundary of the MDC?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Chairman, are you calling me now? Thank you. I was not sure. There was so much noise coming from the other end, apart from the jabbering from the Member for London East over there. Mr Mayor, going back to this matter of some sort of reformation and further efficiencies in policing in the UK, which Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe wrote about in The Guardian, you may remember I asked him various questions about this last week before he had written his article. I do not know whether the discussions prompted him to write it. He was actually...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. I want to pick up the issue of New Year’s Eve. Clearly, you have not secured a sponsor for this year, but will you investigate this and guarantee that we will have a sponsor for next year and potentially even link it to your ticketed event to make sure that we do generate some income next New Year’s Eve?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, one of the key elements of Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe’s [Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis] article was about public risk. Do you agree that if the reforms that he is advocating do not take place, the public would be put at risk by the cuts that have been planned for the MPS in the future by central government?