• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

I have a series of questions, Chair. Was it extraordinary or unwise to make those comments that you did make back in September 2010?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, can you accept that those of us who have been the victims of the News of the World feel extremely disappointed with the MPS response on this whole issue? Mr Mayor, as someone who sat through a recording of yesterday's Select Committee's hearing and was frankly horrified by a number of the performances, will you accept that with the exception of, I have to say, an outstandingly excellent performance from Sue Akers - a Barnet girl - frankly the rest of them you would not buy a used car from? Will you accept that Mr John Yates has...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, if we could just go back some minutes, you were being criticised in a relatively diffuse way.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Are we moving on to the next area?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor I welcome your rounded response of this and not just to take some extreme view that this should be ended, but in your request to the Transport Committee can we ask that they look at the full costs of providing this provision. Salaries are only one element of it. There are other costs that go with it as well, office, telephone etc. Perhaps in the interest of transparency to Londoners we ought to identify the full costs and not just part of them.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, contrary to the critical tone that was just adopted by the aspirant Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate, Mike Tuffrey, has your policy on Transport for London (TfL) fares actually not brought a lot of sanity into it? Because going back to 2008 when you took over, there was indeed a black hole of £1.3 billion which had been created principally by the previous Mayor freezing - I guess for electoral purposes - the fares in the year 2007/08. Surely it is far better for Londoners that we do not have this flip-flopping into black holes...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, Miss Shawcross seems to be suggesting that the solution to this problem is to return to the old Red Ken Equals Red Lights policy of your predecessor, Mr Livingstone. Can you undertake to us that while you are Mayor we will not see the introduction of red lights all over London and the traffic being slowed down?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, I have had an exchange with TfL - which is minuted - because surely congestion means that traffic speeds are slower, and therefore fortunately less people are actually killed, although as you say, some might be injured. But of course the pollution figures from this congestion of course are actually worse. So if you take these things in balance, because you know stationary traffic is polluting traffic, would you say your plans for getting traffic moving are therefore better for public health?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

As someone who is a regular cyclist, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to nip in the bud the idea that somehow smoothing traffic flow is a danger to cyclists. As a regular oh, I see - cyclist, I can assure you that --

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, would you agree that housing benefits should be reformed to ensure that we do not subsidise people to live in the private sector on rents that ordinary working families could not afford?