• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

So, can I ask, one of the concerns, particularly in the recent McNulty Report, was around the ability to close category E ticket offices, which are the smaller ticket offices, but which offer vital assistance to commuters, particularly in my constituency, for example. In that franchise that is coming up in the autumn, the Great Northern, part of Thameslink franchise now, I have Grange Park and Bowes Park that are actually grade E. Are you having an influence in that and can I ask you today, can you ask for conditions for those ticket offices to remain open?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Mr Mayor, I am encouraged to hear that. What will you do if the employers do not respond positively to the suggestions that have been made, as the clock counts down to the Olympics?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I think everyone welcomes the overall reduction in crime on the transport network. However, some crimes, as you will both be aware, are going up. You will be aware that robbery on buses, for example, has gone up by almost 4.5% over the past financial year and 10 boroughs have had huge increases in robbery on buses of over 20%. For instance, in Haringey there was an alarming 87% increase in robbery with a total of 153 incidents last year. There was also an 11% rise in violence against the person, making a total of 240 reports of violence against...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Boris, a large number of my constituents use the buses to get around boroughs like Havering and Redbridge because the rail links tend to be radial into town. So the announcement you have made today about the progress you are requesting towards resolving the strike is very welcome and I am sure they will be happy to hear that statement. But do you not share my surprise that the unions who were spending July campaigning for large amounts of money for working in the Olympics spent April campaigning for a candidate who was promising to slash public transport fares?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

OK. I will write to you and put that suggestion and give you some more time to be less defensive. If I can ask the Mayor, though, if we go on the basis of the last Health and Safety Environment Report by TfL, the targets for the nitrogen oxides (NOx) were missed for the third successive year and the targets for PM10s were missed for the second year running. How are you going to deal with this issue any differently than the previous term?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

OK. If it was too long-winded, simply, can we have an index of premature deaths from poor air quality against road fatalities in the annual Health, Safety and Environment reports that TfL issue, just as a broad indication of where we are going on this issue?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

It has been improved for motorists, there is no doubt it is a lot easier if you are a driver, but I have been there with the cyclists and I can see exactly what the problem is, they have been overlooked, and I would urge you to go back and have a look with me and the cyclists to see that. The key point here is the cyclists have become very concerned about your approach as expressed in your exchanges at the last Mayor's Question Time in May, so will you make it clear, will you apologise to those cyclists...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Yes, Peter, and that is the sort of response I have been getting for the last couple of years, and luckily I can say to you that the Borough of Lambeth have recently run a most successful campaign using ads; it is the campaign 'Know the Difference'. It is a campaign that Assembly Member Kit Malthouse in his role when he was head of Mayor's Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC) endorsed and commended. It has been taken onboard by other people and the only organisation that did not commit to it locally in Lambeth was TfL. These campaigns were...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Could I ask, would that greater control be running the franchises themselves or having a partnership where you set the franchise terms?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I know one of the concerns that many of us have in this Chamber, including myself, is the overcrowding and the relatively poor service some commuters get on Overground services into or through London. We know that TfL has suggested that they would like to bid for franchises that may be coming up in the future. The next one up is Thames Link Southern franchise, which actually incorporates the Great Northern, which runs through my constituency. Can I ask, is TfL considering bidding for that franchise?