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

Mr Mayor, I wanted to get back to the budget. We are all worried about the budget and what it means for policing in London because it is a huge cut, 20%. Do you genuinely think that you can maintain frontline operational policing as it is at the moment?

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

My colleague Andrew Boff was characteristically generous to your predecessor in suggesting that he had spent an hour in each borough in London. I can tell you there were a number of places where we did not see him from year to year. It is unfair of Labour colleagues to characterise this as an hour in each borough when quite often I think people who wish to make their concerns known or contribute positively could do so better by writing to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime or by contributing in other ways where they can actually get their...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

I wondered, Mr Mayor, if you would join me in paying tribute to those people who keep open police stations, the volunteers who keep police stations open --

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

Do help me with my confusion, Mr Mayor, because some Members are talking about the consultation period only being for an hour in each borough or something. As I understood it - and perhaps you can correct me if I am wrong - there will be an unprecedented consultation with regard to the Police and Crime Plan that will start in the New Year, last for six weeks and will engage all Londoners. Not just in an open consultation but in an innovative, interactive survey of all Londoners as to the Police and Crime Plan. Is it the one hour...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, do you agree that residents need to be consulted on major cuts to frontline service provisions like the closing of fire stations and reduction in fire engines?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

You said quite rightly that London is a special case in terms of its social mix. Will you, therefore, undertake to do some independent monitoring for London of the impact of the benefit cap on Londoners?

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

One of the glories of London is its mixed communities and the fact that people of varying incomes live in the same boroughs together. I think a lot of liberal minded Londoners were reassured by your statement that you opposed Kosovo-style social cleansing in London. They may have even supported you on the back of that. They may have said, 'This is someone who celebrates that diversity and joy of London'. The reality though of the benefit changes is that many thousands of Londoners are being driven out of their neighbourhoods and this is related to the question about the...

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

Thank you, Madam. Mr Mayor, I want to add my support to what Steve O'Connell has just been saying to you. My residents in Merton - in both Wimbledon, Mitcham and Morden - are very grateful for the additional trains and the double tracking of the Tramlink which has been a great success. There is no doubt the whole Tramlink is a great success and as you have heard from Steve O'Connell. I think we do want TfL to pursue their talks with Merton and Sutton borough leaders about some further extension to St Helier and to Sutton. Can I...

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

Boris, I had a useful meeting earlier this week with Averil Dongworth who is the chief executive of Queen's Hospital in Romford. The Queen's is a new hospital. It was built under PFI (Private Finance Initiative), so it has a number of problems, but one of the largest problems it has is that it was built when the parking standards of your predecessor were being applied. It means they do not have enough room for even their own staff to park, let alone the patients who have to visit the hospital. Will you review the London Plan so that it...

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

Thank you, madam. Mr Mayor, is it a fact the London bus fleet is actually cleaner than any other city in Europe and indeed other cities in this country? I am pretty sure I have been told that by TfL in the past. The other thing though, is it not a fact TfL are hastening to retrofit their diesel buses and to introduce hybrids as they will be in Putney High Street in my constituency in this coming year. In fact, 85% of the buses travelling along Putney High Street, which has a pollution problem or has had in the...