• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Are you going to use your planning powers to insist on genuinely mixed developments?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Are you going to do anything at all to clamp down on developers with these unacceptable types of housing projects? Are you going to do anything at all?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

You have the overall planning policy-making powers through your London Plan and through your Housing Strategy. You have the planning decision-making powers on these large developments. Are you not going to clamp down on this sort of abuse of the planning process?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Looking at the implementation of your housing policies through some of your planning decisions, for example, you signed off on a 37-storey tower block called One The Elephant last November. There are 284 flats there. There is no affordable housing whatsoever in those 284 units. In fact, the developers said they would not get as much money for the flats if the buyers had to mix with Londoners living in affordable housing. Is this acceptable?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Mr Mayor, given the acknowledged importance of this issue, will you commit to developing a proper mayoral strategy for tackling the low levels of parental employment and the problems of childcare in London?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Richard Tracey (AM):Thank you, Chair. One thing, Mr Mayor, that you could do as Chairman of TfL is to instruct that drivers should not leave the buses' engines ticking over when they change drivers, which is something some of my colleagues, the councillors in Wandsworth, have been going on about for a very long time. We accept that you are bringing in more and more clean buses, but those that are not so clean should not be left ticking over. Richard Tracey (AM): Yes, indeed. Richard Tracey (AM): It has been taken up by several of the excellent Wandsworth Conservative...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Fiona Twycross (AM): The only person, Boris, being party political on this is you because you are pushing through Conservative cuts from the Conservative Government on the Fire Service in London which are deeply unpopular and you are failing to listen to Londoners on this issue. Londoners do not want small changes on this. They wanted you to listen and, as has been said by several people in this room, 94% of Londoners who took part in the consultation oppose these cuts because they believe, as we believe, that they put the lives and livelihoods of Londoners at risk. Tomorrow...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Tony Arbour (AM): Mr Mayor, are you aware that rather than seeking alternative proposals to the fire budget, the Labour Group have spent a considerable amount of time and a considerable amount of public money on challenging a counsel's opinion which justified and said that your direction was completely legal? They were unwilling to accept that. They insisted that the Fire Authority appoint a Queen's Council (QC) named by them to give an opinion. Are you further aware that the opinion which was given by that second QC not only confirmed the first opinion that what you were doing was...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

John Biggs (AM): Very briefly, Chair. East London is seeing the largest population growth of any part of our city and yet you are shutting three stations within walking distance of my home. I know we have been through a long consultation on this, but you have not quite said it yet, can you tell us that you think London has too many fire engines at present to manage?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Gareth Bacon (AM): Mr Mayor, Mr Knight just said that this very week the Commissioner is working on alternatives to the Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5). The Commissioner himself has been very clear that that is not what he is doing. He has been very clear that LSP5 represents his best judgement as to what is needed within the budget that he has. Are you further aware, Mr Mayor, that the Commissioner and the Finance Director this week presented not a list of alternative cuts but a breakdown of departments and their associated costs within the Fire Brigade? It is...