• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, are you aware that the reduction in PCSOs has happened, of course because quite a lot of them have been promoted and become fully warranted police officers, the good ones? Do you think we should be celebrating the fact that the Metropolitan Police Service is actually recruiting and promoting officers when so many other forces throughout the country are not doing that?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

A key part of local policing is the Safer Transport Teams who work closely with the Neighbourhood Police to ensure the bus network and transport hubs are safe. I understand in the next few weeks the Metropolitan Police Service will announce that the Safer Transport Police and the Traffic Police are to be merged into a Road and Transport Policing Command and as a result, we are looking at facing major cuts to police and PCSO numbers in the Safer Transport Teams.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

This raises a key question, does it not, Mr Mayor. Do you feel that the Metropolitan Police Service is fit for purpose in its current form?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, there are a lot of facts and figures and stories and all sorts of, information to be found still, however the police spent two days shredding ten years’ worth of documents from a top-secret anti-corruption unit within the Metropolitan Police Service. The then head of anti-corruption, when he heard that his work had been shredded, said it was ‘gold dust stuff’. How can you go to those lengths and spend all that money and it is not there? I am just amazed. In the past, you said a public inquiry into this whole issue was not necessary.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, do you share my disappointment that in the 18-month process by which the London Safety Plan 5 was produced, the 18 months, which Fiona Twycross described as ‘rushing it through’ but the 18-month process --

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, one of the causes of loss of bus services and delays is attacks on staff, which are currently running at a rate of four per day, according to TfL’s own figures. Obviously some of the routes in London are going to be worse for this than others, in much the way that bus crime attaches itself to certain routes. Will you ask the policing managers on buses to target some police resources at those places where our drivers are being assaulted or abused, so that we can actually put an end to this sort of behaviour which our...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, could you, if possible, do some research and produce a figure that would analyse the effect on housing funding of adopting the Labour Party’s plan to restrict council house sales? Because of course now under this Government we have an agreement that the proceeds from council house sales can be used in order to build new council houses.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, I am rather perplexed by what Tom Copley has just been telling you, because are you aware that Wandsworth Council apparently granted planning permission for over 1,000 affordable homes last year, by far the highest of any council in London?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 March 2014

Mr Mayor, I thought you had told some of these boroughs that they would have to set up their own LEZ areas, however from what you have just said it sounds as if you have not done that; therefore, when you consult on your scheme will you include the option for boroughs to opt in to your LEZ scheme rather than create their own?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 March 2014

It was widely said by your political opponents that in times of cuts and recession crime was likely to increase in London. We have heard from you and we have heard from the Commissioner, very encouragingly, that crime figures are improving, crime rates are going down. Can you assure me, and indeed London, that crime truly is decreasing, or is it related to the fact that crime is being screened out?