• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Roger Evans (AM): I was just going to remind the Mayor of the controversy that we had in previous years over the very large amounts of money paid to the people who we employed to build the Olympic site and to run the Olympic Games. I just ask you, Mr Mayor, does that not prove that if you pay people who are good, good money you actually get good results for it?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Len Duvall (AM): Chair, I have not had the benefit of receiving a copy of this [letter to the Chair of the PCC] last night and nor do I understand why the Chair of the Police and Crime Committee did not receive it last night when you received it. So can I begin by saying some issues? When you had a meeting with the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, it was reported in the press that you were angry. Why was that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

John Biggs (AM): I think you will agree with me that one of the great achievements of the Olympic Games was the very good health and safety record during the construction of that enormous enterprise. You will share with me concern about the problem that has happened at Crossrail and I am sure we will both agree that this should be an isolated incident and we must learn from it. One of the characteristics of the Olympics was that there was a collective agreement on health and safety and, whatever ones other views about trade unions and collective rights are...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Jenny Jones (AM): I certainly think it is a point worth making. As Assembly Member Duvall has said, in the letter it says that the core element of those reports is true, namely that there was contact. This is the latest in a long line of slip-ups from your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. His first appearance in front of the Police and Crime Committee has become a national joke. He has alienated many of us around this table. He has alienated many in the police. He has not mastered his brief to actually do the things that you...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Len Duvall (AM): Good morning, Mr Mayor. Why did you employ this individual and what steps did you take about looking at the salary of the individual as well?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, does the press have a duty of care to protect the confidences and interests of GLA employees?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Cold homes cost the NHS £1.36 billion a year through the cost to hospitals and general practitioners. Last year there was a 12% increase in deaths in the winter months over the year previously. You already recognised that Londoners need help to protect them against the greed of the energy companies, they need to have their houses retrofitted, they need to conserve their energy so they can use their money more effectively, and yet you are ending your Re:New programme. Would you please reconsider that? Is this a good time to stop this programme?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, I believe it is correct that over half of London's 150 police stations - I think it is 150 - are open for 24 hours a day and that compares to the national average of 13%. So, this comparison with accounting forces which has been made rather spurious, is it not a fact that the Metropolitan Police Service should be able to stand a 20% cut in the national police budget far better than the counties?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Could I put to you, Mayor, an email I had from William Wellbank, who is the Chair of the Hampstead Safer Neighbourhood Panel, only this morning? He is obviously concerned about your plan to close Hampstead Police Station and replace it with a stall and cups of coffee. What he said is this: 'One hour on the evening of 22 January to do the whole Borough of Camden is outrageous and can hardly be called a consultation. Clearly it would be hard to get Hampstead's voice heard amongst the many. Surely the wards and their Safer Neighbourhood Panels with targeted...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, I hope you would agree with me that any decisions around closures or otherwise of police stations should be based on evidence. So also should be the participation or otherwise of Assembly Members in particular campaigns around particular police stations. On that basis, will you give us all the evidence again and send every Assembly Member a copy of the footfall survey that was conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service around every single front counter, which might illustrate that Hampstead Police Station, for instance, I think from memory - I may be wrong - was getting an average...