• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

On the incredibly sad death of Michael Mason, since putting this question to you I have in fact spoken to senior officers and have asked lots of questions. It does seem that they did what they could and that a prosecution, in spite of 13 witnesses and the driver admitting that she should have seen the cyclist in front of her, in spite of all of that, there will not be any prosecution. It seems that a lot of cyclists are now feeling that you can kill a cyclist and there are no legal consequences. I am just curious about...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Fiona Twycross AM: Can I just talk briefly about the issue of ticket touting? As you have mentioned, tickets have been sold out. I checked this morning and one ticketing site is now selling tickets for over £180 and one has tickets at £212.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

James Cleverly AM: Mr Mayor, it seems to be the fashion today to accuse various people around the Chamber of being liars. I will give Dr Twycross the opportunity to clarify her point. My question to you, Mr Mayor, is whether you noticed that in her initial questioning she said that there was a Conservative proposal to remove 13 appliances and then later on in her questioning she said, “It is on record here. The Conservatives have put forward a motion to review”. Although the words both begin with ‘R’, there is a massive difference between ‘remove’ and ‘review’. In...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Tom Copley AM: We obviously need to ensure there are enough onward options for rough sleepers when they are leaving hostel services and so I wanted to ask you about a couple of ideas and whether you would consider supporting them in order to increase housing options. Would you consider guaranteeing rent payments for former rough sleepers so that private landlords feel more assured about accepting them as tenants?

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

Kit Malthouse AM: Obviously, Mr Mayor, a sale to a social landlord is not without consequences. Has there been any work done on how many of the current tenants would actually qualify for social rent if they were to apply now?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

In response to an earlier question, you called the Autumn Statement an ‘exceptional Autumn Statement for London’. Yet with four in ten children in London living in poverty, the Chancellor failed to mention child poverty in his statement for the second year in a row. With further cuts to Universal Credit in the Autumn Statement, which are likely to impact on the poorest children ‑‑ Roger Evans AM (Chairman): Can I just remind you this is about the impact on London transport? I am sure you will ‑‑ Fiona Twycross AM: Steve O’Connell talked about the ‘growth zone’ in Croydon...

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

Mr Mayor, when you speak to foreigners when you are promoting London abroad or when the rest of us are going on holiday, how many times do you hear that they reckon that the London transport infrastructure as a whole is better than anywhere else in their own countries?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Dare I do this? Mr Duvall’s questioning established the foundations of a very solid argument against you, which is that regardless of what you achieve in your last year on police numbers, you are creating a legacy. Regardless of whom the next Mayor is and whether they are Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Monster Raving Loony, Green or UK Independence Party (UKIP), they will find it virtually impossible to sustain that number of police officers. You are creating ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Well ‑‑ John Biggs AM: I am asking a question. You are creating a legacy which is...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Thank you very much, Mr Chair. Mr Mayor, would you not agree with me that one way to increase spending on transport infrastructure or to plug any real or imagined gaps would be to allow London and the boroughs of London to have devolved to them their own tax-raising powers?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Thank you, Mr Mayor. Can I just take you back to the issue that I thought you considered and many of us considered to be the most fundamental bread-and-butter issue in London transport, which is the Tube upgrade programme?