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

Just to remind you, Mr Mayor, why we are asking these questions. It is because these are two meetings that you said we knew all about these meetings that you had with News International, and these are ones that you kept secret. You chose to put those into a public domain, ten months after they actually appeared. Why did you try and conceal those meetings?

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

Explain to me why then, on all those issues about the promotion of the work, why was Will Lewis, the senior non editorial executive, invited to your meeting, at that lunch with Rebecca Brooks. Why was he invited to that meeting? Now, Will Lewis was co ordinating the News International response to the Metropolitan Police Service, so why was he invited to that meeting on 14 January?

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

Months later, after you told this Assembly that all the meetings with News International were out in the open and these two were particularly not there, and disclosed in a different way. Can you tell us what you discussed with Rupert Murdoch as you dropped into dinner with him on 24 January and were you accompanied by accompanied by any GLA paid employees?

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

Thank you for stating that for the record. There are some further questions I need to ask, Mr Mayor, and I will focus on those, and if you could focus on the answers we might get through this rather quickly. When did you find out that the Metropolitan Police Service were going to look into phone hacking again at that time and when did you find out about Operation Weeting? Just to help you, this was quite an important weekend, I think the Prime Minister's press officer had resigned, there was lots of news in terms, and I know you...

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

This is your opportunity to enlighten us further, because these meetings we were not aware of until only recently. So, on 10 January 2011, you received a briefing from AC John Yates, do you recall what this briefing was about and would it have been at that time that you were informed Operation Weeting was about to be launched?

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

That is 10 January 2011 with John Yates, which is four days prior to your meeting with Rebecca Brooks. Just to help you, Mr Mayor, 24 January, 'Dropped into dinner with Rupert Murdoch', is about two days prior to the Operation Weeting. So these are an opportunity where you can clarify matters in public, which I think is the right way to do, to deal with those issues, and so that is why I am asking these questions. So can you tell me when you think you were told about Weeting and when were you informed that investigation was about...

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

It was a question, I just wanted to clarify those issues. Can you confirm then what you discussed at that meeting?

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

Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that answer. There are two meetings I would like to draw your attention to, the 14 January 2011 with Rebecca Brooks, and 24 January 2011, 'dropped into dinner', your words, not mine, with Rupert Murdoch. That is the period of time I would like you to focus on. My first set of questions, can you confirm you were fully briefed on the News International phone hacking issues by former Assistant Commissioner (AC) Yates at your regular meetings with him, as stated by Kit Malthouse in his witness statements to the Leveson Inquiry?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

That sounds like another fine example of sponsorship getting results for Londoners, Boris. But we have the Olympic Torch procession coming to Gants Hill later this month, which we are all looking forward to. Certainly when I was there on Thursday, the vegetation was so high in parts of the central reservation, that it was higher than the heads of the cyclists who were passing. One does wonder what sort of wild life may be taking up residence within that, so can we make sure, please, that

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Mr Mayor, I do commend what TfL are doing to clear up the roads, but there are a good many main roads, which people will be travelling along to get to Olympic events and so on that are not TfL roads, they are borough roads. So I wonder if you could get a message across to London councils to go out to borough leaders to have them cleaned up as well because there are still clear signs of road works that have been going on and barriers and so on still out there cluttering the roads.