• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Just continuing this theme of promoting cycling safety in London, I asked a written question at the last Mayor’s Question Time about how things were going with the 33 dangerous junctions that were being worked on under the Better Junctions programme. I was given no answer and was told this information would be released in coming months, despite the fact that the Assembly had had no detailed information on this for an entire year and it is an important issue. I spoke to the ‘cycling czar’ [Andrew Gilligan, Cycling Commissioner] only yesterday and he told me that only 11 junctions...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mayor, could we go back now to Earls Court? I was talking about the viability assessment and how you have looked at it very carefully because you even commissioned the District Valuer Services (DVS) to investigate Capco’s viability assessment. Presumably you agree with their findings, do you?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

What was the point of you giving £150,000 of taxpayers’ money to the Mount Pleasant Association to work up an alternative plan when you were always going to approve the Royal Mail Group scheme all along? It was sheer cynicism on your part, was it not?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Following on from that, Mr Mayor, can I recommend most strongly that you do look at the initiative being taken by three London boroughs - Croydon, Southwark and Lambeth - with regard to the information-sharing over existing Social Services casework that they have with a view to identifying those victims of trafficking? Often those victims of trafficking cannot really be seen unless you have been trained to see that. Croydon, particularly, has developed some ground-breaking training programmes which need to be distributed to the rest of London, quite frankly, in order to inform professionals - and indeed hotels may come...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mr Mayor, back in July you were in attendance at the Police and Crime Committee with the Commissioner. I then asked you a question around sanction detections. “Crime is coming down. We have less crime to investigate. A renewed focus locally.”, is what you are trying to tell us around this table. Sanction detections are getting worse. I asked you in July what we should be doing. You agreed with me that it was an issue. What have we done since July in terms of improving sanction detections? Are you bringing people to book, getting results and solving crime?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

It is interesting this idea of a ‘shot in the arm’ for the economy because if you invest in solar, wind and wave energy, you actually get more jobs than if you invest in fracking, which of course has the likelihood of poisoning water supplies and upsetting an awful lot of London’s residents. Would you agree with that?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I am interested to hear that you agreed with Sir Peter Hendy because, as well as a colourful metaphor, as you call it, he made some very clear analytical factual statements. One was that the growth in bus demand has far outstripped the mileage because we have not had the money. Another was that he talked about people on low pay and said, “A future mayor is going to have to make sure they can afford to get to work”. Do you not think, Mr Mayor, that this is actually quite a serious indictment of your treatment of bus passengers...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Generally south London always welcomes investment in transport. Probably for far too long we have not been well served. However, my constituents have been very alarmed around some of the narrative in this consultation.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mr Mayor, I am sure you are aware that this is a chestnut that the city has been chewing on for at least all of my political life in London, which is now, sadly, approaching 20 years, and that nobody has yet come up with a workable solution. However, are you aware that pedestrianisation has been tried in the West End before? Back when I was a councillor at Westminster, on the urging of the businesses in and around Soho to the south of Oxford Street, we put in a pedestrianisation scheme. We had rising bollards and it was closed...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

However, the other thing that I would like to raise - talking about Oxford Street and its traffic - is that of course once Crossrail with its stations at Tottenham Court Road and at Bond Street appears, it will cause further problems with congestion on Oxford Street. This is going to require some very serious consideration of the bus ideas that Victoria Borwick produced and so on. Is this in the consideration of TfL?