• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Is it not true, Mr Mayor, that, as we heard at the Housing and Regeneration Committee, that you have completed the highest number of properties since the early 1990s?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Steve O'Connell (AM): I have attended many of them in my Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) capacity. They have been well received. They have been populated by some very thoughtful people with challenging questions. It is only a part -- Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): Can you make a question out of that? Steve O'Connell (AM): Would you not agree, Mr Mayor, that it is only part of a much broader consultation over eight weeks which is open to all Londoners via the internet and elsewhere?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Thank you very much, Chair. I am amazed, Mr Mayor, that you can express yourself satisfied by the consultation meetings on the policing service. We had an Assembly debate on this not very long ago and people will recognise what I am saying. The meetings are short, they are lamentable, an hour. People coming are closed down and shut up basically because there is not time to discuss things. The paperwork --

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Mr Mayor, in your update you mentioned building consensus through a process of consultation as well as having a real consultation. Very worthy aspirations. Can you therefore confirm to this Assembly that you would have consultations taking place in every single borough and also that they will be meaningful in that?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): Let us look at some real incidents. You have referred to the Commissioner's proposals but of course they are within the constraints of the budget you have set for him rather than letting him use his free will, but let us look at some real incidents Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): No, actually -- Andrew Dismore (AM): Let me ask the question. I have not asked the question yet. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Well I think you need to stop talking rubbish. Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): No, let the Assembly Member ask the question and then...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Well, whatever. Mr Mayor, I am interested in how the proposals will affect my patch so could you, just for clarity, tell me how many fire stations are going to be closed in Havering and Redbridge?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

When the PCSOs were first introduced, part of the explanation for why they did not have the power of arrest was that, if they had the power of arrest they would arrest people and then they would have to go and fill in the huge amounts of paperwork, which would keep them off the streets and we want them on the streets. In the new policing model the balance is shifting back towards fully warranted police officers which I think most people would welcome. My concern, and what I would ask of you is that, with the balance moving back...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

My constituents find the neighbourhood policing model very reassuring because they know they will have a large number of police dedicated to their particular ward. However, all too often, Mr Mayor, it has been a false level of reassurance because a lot of those officers have been abstracted for purposes elsewhere. Under the new scheme with its greater level of flexibility between wards, will there actually be less of that abstraction so that people will actually get what they have been promised?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, do you share my surprise at this exchange this morning because at the recent Police and Crime Committee, which was chaired by Joanne, we actually asked leading academics and criminologists for their view on your estate strategy and they said they felt it could well actually improve public confidence by getting police out onto the streets and in contact with the public?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 30 January 2013

Richard Tracey (AM): Putney High Street is almost in my constituency, Mr Mayor, and you will be interested to know that it is in fact at the junction with the South Circular Road, so it receives very heavy traffic as well as being a canyon, effectively, as you say. Can I ask you, are you aware of the work that Wandsworth Council has been doing --