• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, I would like us to revisit the issue about response times. At the June Mayor's Question Time, you stated that it is perfectly true that your overall objective of the Fifth London Safety Plan is to bring a wider area of the city within the minimum response times. Can I put it to you: do you believe that the revised version, which will be put to the authority tomorrow by the Commissioner, for debate, will achieve those objectives?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, are you proud of the fact that London got the best funding settlement from DCLG of any fire and rescue service in the country?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Richard Tracey (AM): I find this sort of scepticism from the other side really pretty disheartening, Mr Mayor. How many jobs do you think Crossrail and Crossrail 2 might provide for London?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, do you think it is unfortunate that the impression might be left with people in the debate about undercover police officers that the operation of undercover is completely unsupervised by anybody and it might be worth emphasising therefore to the public that since 2000 we have had the Office of the Surveillance Commissioners who do inspect on a regular basis all approvals and operations that are taken on an undercover basis, and indeed all intrusive police operations that require surveillance of some type? Given that office is staffed entirely by former judges, all of whom are independent, do...

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

Recommendations on authority levels, the fact that the authority levels were too low, on training, on definitions, of actually putting together a definition of what a domestic extremist is. Tom Winsor reviewed that this year in June, just a month ago, and found that the Metropolitan Police Service had not put these recommendations in place. You have not told the Metropolitan Police Service to do that, have you?

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

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): I want to carry on with the issue of confidence and, as you would expect, I have received a lot of correspondence. That correspondence has been in two parts. One has been about the impact of the Lawrence revelations on the confidence and trust that Londoners have in the Metropolitan Police Service, and it would not be a surprise to you or anyone sitting around the horseshoe to know that this has been magnified in the black community. A recent poll from ComRes is saying that, while 37% of all Londoners are less likely to trust...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Can I just move the questioning now to the confidence in the oversight of the Metropolitan Police Service's estate strategy, Mr Mayor?

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

Mr Mayor, in among the many negative comments, which have been made this morning, you gave us the useful piece of information that confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service is remaining steady while it is declining in police forces around the rest of the country. Why do you think that is?

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

Steve O'Connell (AM): Returning again to this subject of the Sutton tram, and it is pleasing that there is a very crowded field of people who want that to come to town, some of them latecomers. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Suddenly some of them jumping on the bandwagon. You are not saying the Liberal Democrats are suddenly discovering enthusiasm? Steve O'Connell (AM): I would not dream of being so discourteous. However, to be helpful in the first question, you will be aware, Mr Mayor, and surely you will agree with me, that after my lobbying of yourself and many...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Len Duvall (AM): I am glad that you take the issue seriously, have you read the Assembly report prepared by Fiona Twycross on the food poverty in London ? One of the issues it has highlighted was, in 2009/10, 400 people were accessing food banks; in April 2013, 42,000 people were accessing foodbanks, and these figures come from the Trussell Trust food bank providers. Have you read the report?