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

My voice is loud enough I do not need the camera, thank you very much, anyway. Mr Mayor, it does seem rather peculiar that the last question was about knife crime, as Joanne herself had to come forward with it, it does seem a bit peculiar that you sort of jumped the gun especially since the last four years I have mentioned to you and this Chamber again and again about knife crime. So the question is, and I think you are aware of it here, is do you really feel that the job you are doing is sufficient enough...

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

Do you accept, Mr Mayor, that the strong support from my constituents in the London Borough of Camden, adjacent to Mr Malthouse's constituency, to ban the pedicabs, and I strongly support the view that Mr Malthouse also takes that these are a nightmare, a rip off to tourists, and a danger as well as a nuisance to residents. There is strong support in both boroughs --

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Mr Mayor, in that vein I presume you want to take this opportunity to publicise the introduction of Cabwise, the service where you can text 60835 and you will be immediately given a text back by TfL which gives you the names and numbers of three local licensed minicab firms.

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

Mr Mayor, I was the victim of a spate of burglaries around ten years ago. It is one of the things you do not realise until you have been burgled is that they come back.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

In the light of that reply, whether or not you will make a pre-emptive strike to say that your Mayoralty will resist any alteration in the definition of 'night' so far as night flights has been concerned; there has been over the years pressure to suggest that the night starts later and finishes earlier for the benefit of airlines, I think.

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

Mr Mayor, I assume that many of these stacked aircraft over London are going into Heathrow, and can I make a plea on behalf of my constituents in Wandsworth and Putney particularly that no aircraft comes in before 6.00 am in the morning because there is increasing evidence, believe me, that so many of them are actually circling around from 4.00am onwards, and I get a very heavy postbag about this from my constituents.

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

Mr Mayor, Jenny Jones has made a laudable career over road safety and I think we should applaud her on that, and she has been very consistent in fighting for road safety, particularly for cyclists. That said, I have a photograph in my files of Jenny Jones on a bicycle with her skirt billowing, her hair blowing wildly in the wind, like some latter day Sister George. Would you join me in urging her to practice what she preaches and wear a helmet and ensure that there is consistent safety on the roads of London?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Just two issues on this, Mr Mayor. We all welcome the seriousness with which you take road safety but in considering, as part of the work that Jenny has asked you to do, the 20mph zones on bridges presumably you will also be looking at the complexity that this may produce or the, perhaps, unintended affects it may produce either north or south of the bridge. Not least, for instance, on Vauxhall Bridge. I would be very concerned of people accelerating away from a short 20mph zone over the bridge, up Vauxhall Bridge Road or, indeed, either side of the...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Mr Mayor, of course those cities that have had the privilege of being able to vote on whether or not they want a congestion charge - or congestion tax, actually - have rejected it. Will you give the right to Londoners to comment on the existing Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

As you will be aware, Mr Mayor, there are some of us who for quite a period of time have been doubtful about the effect of the Congestion Charge experiment in London generally, not least as to whether it was going to achieve its objectives on an environmental basis over and above the damage in cost to business and residents in central London, and that actually, it was a tax-raising measure, effectively dressed up with some of green or congestion overlay. Over time, in fact, the effects of it have not been proved, not least because congestion is now exactly...