• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Andrew Boff (AM): Tony Arbour's very sensible and measured suggestion does not stop us from being wholly supportive of the idea of pursuing the London Living Wage. I think I was actually the one who nudged Tony to bring that up because I think we do need to allow small businesses flexibility. You did however mention this idea about the gap between rich and poor. I do not care about the gap between rich and poor, Mr Mayor. I care that there are too many poor people. I do not care how many rich people there are. As far as...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Roger Evans (Deputy Chairman): I am pleased my colleague Tony Arbour asked this question because Street Pastors form a part of the infrastructure that is in place in Romford to keep people safe in the night time economy where they do not just reduce the incidence of antisocial behaviour and violence but they also provide care for people who have maybe drunk too much or missed the last bus home and are stuck in the town centre and would otherwise be vulnerable. I am not going to ask you for money like my colleague but would it be possible for...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Murad Qureshi (AM): Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, last time at Mayor's Question Time I brought up the impact in central London, in particular the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster. In both consultations, unanimously members of the public disagreed with your proposed cuts, and this ranged from councillors of both political colours, as well as members of the Conservative Party locally, black-cab drivers, as well as members of the Abbey, and I would not take Westminster Abbey on at all on this front. The reality is in nine wards in Westminster the time for...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): On 21 February, Boris, there was a school fire in Strathray Gardens NW3. From Belsize Fire Station, which you are planning to cut, fire-fighters were there in under two minutes; the next pump took nine minutes. Luckily it was half term or the consequences could have been far worse. Belsize Ward's attendance times are going to go up by over three minutes to a second under eight minutes along with six other Camden wards, which will go over the six-minute target. Across the whole of London, only three wards will come down from outside to within the...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Fiona Twycross (AM): Thank you. Boris, obviously we are at the next stage of the consultation now and in just under a month the recommendations are due to come back to the LFEPA. If the Fire Authority, having considered the responses to the consultation, do not agree with recommendations made to them, will you force through cuts to the fire brigade regardless?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): You keep hiding behind the Fire Commissioner, Ron Dobson, saying it is his plan. But you are the one who is starving him of funds to pay for your measly Council Tax reduction, so are you here today taking personal responsibility for these cutbacks.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): Good morning, Mr Mayor. We missed you at the Islington consultation regarding the closure of Clerkenwell Station and it is a shame as you would have been able to say whether you think it is acceptable for there to be winners and losers arising from your LSP5, and those are the words of the Commissioner and the room went silent when this was said. So I then, next day, found out who were going to be the winners. Mr Mayor, do you think it is acceptable that you and your family and your neighbours are going...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Navin Shah (AM): Mr Mayor, rather than ducking and diving, which is what you done so far, will you answer a simple direct question, which I am going to put it to you? At public meetings right across London, residents have rejected closure of fire stations, removal of fire engines, and deletion of fire-fighter posts, with one voice, total absolute unanimity. I have not met a single resident, and I attended more than half of those public meetings, who has said that there is anything, absolutely anything good in these plans. Are you therefore now prepared to listen to Londoners...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

James Cleverly (AM): I also want to put on record my personal thanks to the London Fire Brigade for the work that they have done in driving down fires and death by fires, and I completely understand, I have visited many fire stations, I have spoken to many fire-fighters, and I completely understand the passion that they have for their service and for Londoners, and I know that there is complete honesty in their passion around this issue. I am not quite so convinced however in the integrity of some of the calls made by other Members. I will give...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, much as I am a loyal Tory, do you not think that this policy is daft and expensive and divisive?