• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

James Cleverly (AM): Thank you Chair. Mr Mayor, under your Single Property Unit you have been quite proactive at looking at creative ways of using the public sector real estate more efficiently, both financially and operationally. Obviously, the LAS as you say does not fall under your core remit but will you continue to investigate opportunities where they can share real estate with elements of the blue light services that do fall under your remit to help them maintain those, as you say, world class response times.

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Gareth Bacon (AM): Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, there are a number of issues that have been raised here that I think do require clarification. First of all could you confirm to me that Andrew Dismore was in fact a Labour Member of Parliament between 1997 and 2010?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): Thank you. May I refresh your memory, Mayor? [Holds up list] This is the list that you have seen which we are not allowed to show to the public.

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Fiona Twycross (AM): Have you seen a list of the fire stations under threat?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you, Chair. Yesterday afternoon, Mr Mayor, at an exciting meeting of the Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee the Finance Director from Transport for London was telling us about the savings they are trying to make in London Underground and the difficulties that he faces. He was very concerned at a 1% cut in fares would be the equivalent of them needing to find £340 million in savings over the next ten years. By my calculation a 7% cut in fares would mean they would have to find a £2,380 million saving in the next ten years. How on...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Mr Mayor, are you aware of just how popular the new bus is with the public? Indeed, I understand it turns heads when it passes in the same way Concorde used to when it flew over London.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

I want to pick up on some of the points that Darren [Johnson] has been making, Mr Mayor. You claim that this is going to be the cleanest, greenest bus, but on a number of air quality measures your bus is 56% more polluting than a regular Volvo diesel bus that we see on the streets of London. So is your bus really going to be the greenest bus that this city ever sees?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Kit Malthouse (AM): Would you agree Mr Mayor that the one thing that would please Westfield, above all else, would be if there were fewer buses going to Oxford Street?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Thank you Chair, I would just like to say obviously that we had the cross-party group that considered this and it is still ongoing in the sense that we continue to review the problem. So I am delighted that you have agreed to continue to talk to the NWEC. I think, frankly, until there is a fundamental review of some of the bus routes in a broader aspect rather than just those that go down Oxford Street, I think it is going to be quite difficult to continue to reduce, but I do support as we all do, the need...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Gareth Bacon (AM): Thank you, Mr Chairman. Of course there is no dictatorial remit at LFEPA where information is kept from Members, as Mr Dismore well knows, but that does not fit the scaremongering narrative that he is trying to put out before London at the moment. The plain fact of the matter is, Mr Mayor, that Mr Dismore asked all of these questions last week and got the same answers from the Chairman of the Fire Authority, as you have given this morning. There have also been briefings, and the Labour group had their briefing before the Conservative group...