• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Good morning. While we are on the question of rough sleeping can I just ask you a question that I asked in June about the money the Government gave you. It gave you a budget for rough sleeping of £33.8 million. £5.3 million of that was missing from your budget last year. The non-government organisations (NGOs) and the charities responsible for services to rough sleepers still do not know whether they will get this money. Can I ask you where is that money?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

In light of this discussion on co-location of the emergency services will you please revisit the proposal to have a single blue light museum? I am very conscious that at a time of economies forced on us by the wastefulness of the previous Government, museums and things of that sort are likely to be overlooked. Clearly there is going to be an opportunity with the vacating of premises to improve the services for us to be able to have a blue light museum.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Mr Mayor, those of us who are associated with the Wandle Valley Park do believe that this is a very unfair anachronism, this levy, which has been in place, first of all, under the Greater London Council from 1966 and then from 1986 it was passed to the London boroughs. Each of the 32 London boroughs plus the City are paying anything between £200,000 and £400,000 a year to keep the Lee Valley Park subsidised, in effect. The Park Authority could simply charge its visitors £2.50 a head, we calculate, and that would replace the £8.7 million which the boroughs...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Would you also though in considering your views about this bear in mind, Mr Mayor, that there are particular crime types that take place over a number of years that require the retention of DNA over that period. For example, Kirk Reid was apprehended six years after his first offence and of course the criminal who became known as the Night Stalker some 20 years after his first offence when DNA samples were taken. Therefore we have to bear in mind that particularly where sexual offences are concerned these linked series which are often hard to detect can take some...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Referring to your earlier comments, is that the same if I say something very nice about someone on the other side? So, picking up on the earlier comments of Valerie [Shawcross], I know she feels very passionate about Croydon and although I know our Conservative candidate will win next Thursday, I know Valerie would have made a fantastic MP in Croydon North. Jennette Arnold OBE (Chair): Can I have a question from you Steve O'Connell? Steve O'Connell (AM): I was not going to mention it but thank you very much for your visit to London Road and the businesses there...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Mr Mayor, I attended a meeting a few weeks back of the local community concerning the future of Hampstead police station and with only the exception of the Liberal Democrat councillor who appeared to be reading from a script, the general consensus of that meeting was that Hampstead police station was not fit for purpose and that the local community welcomed the alternative uses for it.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Mr Mayor, when you were in Croydon yesterday did you take the time to visit South Norwood police station where there has been a firm and settled proposal to close that station which was published in September?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

I would like to take this opportunity Boris to commend the Acting Borough Commander at Redbridge who ran a stakeholder consultation session with us last week about the future of public access in Redbridge. I know members of the council were there really from all sides who were concerned about the robustness of some of the public access statistics which the exercise is based on. Could you just make sure that the statistics that are used to inform this process are as solid as they can be, because we do not want to undermine --

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

I first heard about this on Monday. The officer who contacted me told me she had taken a week to find my email, which does not say much for the detective skills of the Metropolitan Police Service as I had actually given them those details to both borough commanders when I was first elected. I was told they had to come in by Thursday this week which does not really give much time. On 19 September in answer to Mayor's Questions you told me there were no plans to close West Hampstead. On 17 October you said the same about...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Thank you for that. Both your Deputy and yourself in September said to me when I asked about police front counters, you said in a direct answer to me, you said that you would publish plans for boroughs and invite the public to comment on them. Is that still the intention?