• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

What I want to go back to is that I applaud you wanting to provide a lot of social rented housing, but all our housing associations tell us that the take home pay or the income that most of their tenants have is £15,000. You are now, this is a quote, you have now said there will be no grants funding for social rented housing in the 2011 2015 spending round. It is true there are some social rented houses in that round but they are hangovers from the last round. You have said yourself that you are merging the...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I welcome your policy towards mixed housing and mixed housing tenure, not least because as a representative of Central London I am aware that there is a strong tendency for Inner London to become a ghetto for the very rich and the very poor and that you are absolutely right, we need to support those people in the middle. Do you agree with me though that there will be more social housing available for the poor and middle income family if there were not council flats occupied by Labour former Cabinet Ministers or indeed very highly paid trade union leaders?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

It would only add 1% to the wage bill according to the resolution foundation in computing and software and indeed in banking where we have seen these huge disparate levels of income. The fact is, is it not, as often has been said, we are heading to Victorian levels of poverty and inequality in London under your mayoralty. I was going to say there is some hypocrisy amongst the Conservatives over Victorian values and morality but under your mayoralty, there are Victorian levels of poverty and disparity of. What are you going to do about it?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

When you got sponsorship for the cable car from Emirates, you praised them to the roof today, and a wide fare on the Tube to Virgin Media, why did you not insist on them paying the London Living Wage when you did so? Should we not rebrand the Emirates the poverty line rather than the skyline?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): If you talk about the London Living Wage, you claim that 100 companies have signed up to London Living Wage. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Sorry, I cannot quite hear what you are saying. Andrew Dismore (AM): You claim 100 companies have signed up to London Living Wage but that represents fewer than 9,000 people in work and it is the case, is it not, that we have 680,000 Londoners who are in work but are in poverty struggling to make ends meet for themselves and their families. That is 1 million Londoners in working householders in...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Mr Mayor, have you undertaken any assessment of food poverty in London?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I am giving you a chance to answer those questions in relation to the issues around what you were briefed around News International in that period of time. Let us move on, so can you tell us what you discussed with Rebecca Brooks at your meeting on 14 January and were you accompanied by any GLA paid employee at that meeting?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Are you aware, Mr Mayor, that there will be many Londoners, and indeed many people here in this Assembly today, who think it is disgraceful of Len Duvall pretending to be Robert Jay, a poor man's Robert Jay, in continuously harassing you and not accepting your reply? There are many of us who think that the man who has twice successfully polled more than a million votes of Londoners to become Mayor of London is someone who should be trusted and indeed can be trusted. To be consistently called a liar is wholly unacceptable.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Mr Mayor, one last question, why did you not give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, is it because you would have to give evidence under oath, is that why you chose not to give evidence?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Do you think it was unwise to have those meetings at that time, no matter in terms of how good your intentions were, with representatives of an organisation under a very high profile criminal investigation into its criminal activities, allegedly, as well as individuals. Do you think it was wise that you had that meeting and do you not think that those that may look outside were looking knowing that the knowledge and leadership that you provide from this place in City Hall, as well as in the police, is that some would suspect that something else took place at...