• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, would you acknowledge that the London Living Wage campaign is not just about the level of wages that are paid in the city but about tempting to re-establish the moral obligation between employer and employed and, therefore, making it compulsory in any way, shape or form would destroy the creation of that sense of obligation between the two?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): A few weeks ago, Boris, I was in a well-known restaurant chain having breakfast before going to my constituency work and I heard the manager say to one of the waiters, 'It is rather quiet this morning, why don't you do away, take the morning off and come back at lunchtime?' Most people who are told to take the morning off would think it is quite a good idea, but the waiter was rather reluctant to do so. He was reluctant to do so, not just because he was on bad wages, but because he was on...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): The Mayor will remember that I raised this issue with him during the last Mayor's Question Time and drew his attention to the national campaign that is being led by John Sentamu [Archbishop of York].

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Steve O'Connell (AM): I want to reinforce that. I appreciate very much the investment that you are making in the larger infrastructure schemes, but the LIP funding, I would like to point out, is often applicable to the smaller schemes that many of our resident across Croydon and Sutton and elsewhere. It is those small schemes that I would ask you to continue to support and to repeat, in essence, that you will be continuing to fund the boroughs at least at the existing level, but also to maintain that freedom for the boroughs to be able to use the...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): Mr Mayor, I am very concerned that in any new road scheme, or any changes to road schemes that provision for cyclists should be adequate. I know you know that we have had four deaths in the last two weeks on our roads, two pedestrians, two cyclists, a three-year-old boy, a 20-year-old woman, two men of 54 and 91. It is crucial that we take care of the vulnerable people on our roads. Will this scheme provide full, full, protection for vulnerable road users?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Steve O'Connell (AM): Chair, if we can return to the first subject. I welcome the Mayor's commitment to Crossrail 2 and on this side we very much support certainly bringing in that resource to south London. You remember an early critique around the original Crossrail, there was some discomfort with the part funding from the south and the benefits, and that debate has moved on. You will hear later of our support very much to bring Tramlink extensions to Sutton and to Crystal Palace and you will know that we have done an enormous amount to provide that. I am...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

I just want to draw assurance really that all the stations on Crossrail 2 will be disabled accessible.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): Do you agree, Boris, that any private sector funding involvement must comply with the law?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Speaking of rough sleeping and speaking of empty homes, I know where there are going to be plenty of homes, luxury homes which are just going to sit empty and are going to do nothing to help provide affordable homes or deal with the rough sleeping problem. In order to clear the site for this redevelopment

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Can I just follow up from that exchange and can I say that as, I think, the only nurse sitting around this horseshoe and someone who delivered care during the awful [Margaret Thatcher [Former British Prime Minister] years, where I personally as a ward sister had to take sheets and wash them to put on the bed because we had no supplies in our hospital. The idea that we are sitting here denying the changes that have taken place in our health service from 1997 to 2010 is absolutely unbelievable. Nearly 100,000 more nurses, nearly 50,000 more doctors and I...