• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Mr Mayor, will the Transport for London Business Plan continue to promote Crossrail as one of its key elements?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): Assembly Member Biggs has a point of order. John Biggs (AM): The Chair told us there was a standing order about making assertions for which there was no evidence. Now, the Mayor has at the one time made an assertion for which he has evidence that he can cut council tax. Now he has made another assertion that on fares, he can make no such commitment. There is a fundamental inconsistency, it seems to me, under standing orders. Either one can be said and the other cannot, and either the both can be said or neither...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, during your first term, I do not recollect a single suggestion from the Labour group on how to make any savings in TfL. I do not know whether you will remember, but given all this talk that we heard during the election campaign about their fare cuts policy, would you like to invite a submission from them on how they see savings might be made in TfL in the future without slashing investment, which is of course exactly what we predicted they would do?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): Yes, thank you, Chair. Mayor, one of your key pledges on Homes for Londoners was to end rough sleeping by the end of the year, so that no one spent a second night without a home out on the streets, yet the latest figures show a 31% increase in rough sleeping over the past year. Does your pledge still stand?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): In the interests of transparency, Mayor, are you able to tell us whose idea it was to invite Keith Moon [deceased drummer from 'The Who'] to perform at the closing ceremony of the Olympics?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, can I ask you not to spend too much time modelling the transparency of your administration on the example of the Labour, Lib Dem and Green groups, whose idea of transparency is to hold secret meetings where movements of cash are promised in return for jobs and votes.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Joanne McCartney (AM): Mr Mayor, I am going to return to a question I have asked you three times before, and in the spirit of transparency I am hoping that this time you will give a positive answer. So will you sign up the GLA to the United Kingdom (UK) Statistics Authority's code of practice for official statistics?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): Of these hundreds of thousands of new jobs you are proposing to create, how many are going to be long term young unemployed people? How many permanent full time jobs for young people are you going to create, bearing in mind your abject failure to deal with long term youth unemployment in the last year?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Mr Mayor, could you ensure, along with your commitment to the key principles of the Go Dutch campaign that London cyclists learn to obey the rule of the road as much as they do in Holland?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Mr Mayor, Londoners will be delighted to learn that jobs and growth will be one of the overriding themes of your new mayoralty, particularly Londoners in Croydon and Sutton, and particularly so in Croydon with the memory of the rioting a year ago. Londoners in Croydon welcome the investment that you have made. Can you reassure those young people and those families across Croydon and Sutton that the jobs that you will be creating over the next four years, although many of the projects are towards the east and to the centre, that many young Croydonians will...