• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

James Cleverly (AM): Thank you, Mr Mayor. Darren Johnson mentioned short-term measures which were highlighted in the EU report on London air quality. To your knowledge were the hot spot measures that you had already initiated included in the Defra submission to the EU on air quality?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, you sounded rather conciliatory earlier on this morning towards some of the threats of the transport unions but --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Ms Jones, you have a point of personal explanation?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, I was present at that Transport Committee yesterday and it was quite a feisty session, actually. One of the comments that Bob Crow made in response to the point my colleague has made about strikes costing London £50 million a day was that, if it was costing London business that much, that meant that that was what his members were worth and that was the sort of pay award they should be looking at. Do you feel they are on the same planet as the rest of us?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, I am grateful for that. I am aware in my constituency that four synagogues, a Jewish school and the home of a rabbi have been targeted. As you rightly say, we do not know whether these are anti-Semitic crimes or just general burglaries, but of course I think the definition of a hate crime is that the victim has to think it is a hate crime and then it is, so they are something. Another of the drivers behind this, of course, is the rise in the value of precious metals and I know members of the Asian...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Thank you, Mr Mayor. This question is obviously topical, as I read in the press that this Government want to kick the police.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Thank you, Mr Mayor. This morning, members of all the parties on the Assembly received a petition from the 10,000 members of the public raised by the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) requesting that all local councils, including the GLA, ensure that lorry drivers working for those public authorities receive cycle-awareness training. If I were allowed props, I would actually show you this [folder containing the petition] but I am not so, regrettably, I cannot! What is even more of a regret, Mr Mayor, and this I do want a response from you on, it is a regret bearing in mind...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Thank you. I, too, do not want to pre-empt the discussions and the investigations that Economy, Culture and Sport Committee will have next week but I just wanted to follow on from what Len has said. Could you just confirm if you took professional advice when you were made aware of the consequences of London & Partners not taking on the pension liabilities for Visit London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Thank you, Chair. I think the pensioners will welcome your open mind on this, Mr Mayor, and will welcome the fact that you are willing to wait until you see the deliberations of the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee which will be looking into this. All that I do ask at this stage - because of course we do not have all the information in front of us at the moment - is that you do take into consideration when you finally reach a decision on this and the moral duty that there is on this authority to be a...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

So are the Visit London former employees having to pay for a reduced pension pot from your failure to secure the appropriate funding for London & Partners from Government?