• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

You keep talking about the deaths but you are ignoring the figures on the seriously injured and the fact is cycling is not getting safer in London. These are your figures, Mr Mayor, in 2008 - when you were first elected - on average a cyclist could do over 400,000 cycle trips before being killed or seriously injured. In 2011, three years after your smoothing traffic flow and changing traffic lights and so on, the average cyclist could only make 364,000 trips before being killed or seriously injured. Cycling is not getting safer. You have been asking me to apologise...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, at the Cycling Vision launch last week, Transport for London (TfL) explained how they took just 18 months to install a cycle lane on a really straightforward bit of road; 18 months. London cannot wait 18 months for you to correct some of the issues on Cycle Superhighway 2 (CS2) and some of the other dangerous junctions in London. What are you going to do to speed up this urgent work on the highway?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, would you not agree that taking advice from a Labour politician about health and the A&Es is not dissimilar to taking investment advice from that other famous Labour politician, the Reverend Paul Flowers?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

I just wanted to go back to the point about older people and their access to food. During the investigation into food poverty in London that I led on behalf of the Health and Environment Committee, we found that two‑thirds of organisations taking part in a survey on food poverty in the over-65 age group thought that the older people they worked with were finding it harder to access food. Meals on Wheels probably needs reinventing for the 21st century, but there are 10 boroughs in London who have now completely withdrawn the service. Touching on Onkar’s point, the biggest...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, we have heard the difficult decision pensioners will have to make this winter between heating and eating and there already is a group of people who are at increased risk of unnecessary winter deaths this winter. We already know that too many older people are admitted through accident and emergency departments (A&Es) in London, putting even more pressure on overworked doctors and nurses and understaffed hospitals. The elderly are a big reason why we have long waiting list and that half the time we have failed to treat patients within four hours. That is almost 200,000 people who...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, do you think the big six companies are right to blame the green levies for the latest round of price rises proposed on Londoners?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, do you agree that free school meals should be given to all the children at your great competitor school of Harrow? Do you think they should all get free school meals?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Last time, Boris, you could not remember when you had last travelled on the Northern line, so let us try another one. When was the last time you topped up an Oyster card at a Tube station ticket machine?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, my follow-up question is about the increase in the gender pay gap in London and I just wanted to know whether you were aware of the evidence that shows women earn an average of 15% less than men? So, for instance, for every £1 a man earns, a woman takes home 85p. Are you aware of this?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, I wonder whether you saw the reported comments of Tom Copley [AM], who unfortunately seems to have left the Chamber for a moment? He said that there should be apologies from the Labour Party because the last Labour Government failed to build enough affordable homes in London and actually built fewer homes in 13 years than Margaret Thatcher’s Government did in a single year. How about that?