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

Can I thank you for the way you answered the question. There is one other matter that does not really take up much time for consideration. Will you apologise to those pensioners that have been forced into fear and some great anxiety by decisions emanating from your office? Can you apologise to them?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, when these Government changes were first announced, you likened them to Kosovo-style cleansing and said you would do something about it. The year's delay is welcome, but the effect is still going to be the same. There is still going to be

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, despite Joanne McCartney's attempt to manufacture a scare story this morning, would you agree with me that ward boundaries often disproportionately fall on town centres? There are large parts of London where a town centre may have three or four ward boundaries coming together and that causes significant operational problems for the police. In those situations and indeed the situation where there are small geographical wards, it is sensible and in fact may result in better crime fighting to combine the management of those wards and the prioritisation of those wards under one manager, i.e. a sergeant, for...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Thank you. At the last Mayor's Question Time, I put down a written question to you about where these sergeants come from and you said they would come from quieter wards. Are you aware that quieter wards are disproportionately in outer London? I have looked at the ward figures and 48 of the 50 wards for the lowest number of notifiable offences are in outer London. Of the 100 wards with the lowest number of offences 98 are in outer London and 133 of the 150 wards with the lowest number of offences are in outer London. Can you understand...

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

Mr Mayor, the Outer London Commission made a number of recommendations and some of them were economic. May I suggest to you that perhaps the fact that you have held the precept at zero increase for the last three years is rather more helpful than the 153% added on by the previous Mayor in his eight years in office?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Mr Mayor, you do share my astonishment at this newfound interest in Mr Livingstone [Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London] and his outriders, Mr Biggs and Ms Shawcross, in outer London, an area that they showed absolutely no interest in during the previous administration. Do you not agree that it is rather patronising that they would think that my residents in Sutton and Croydon would be duped by this new-found interest? But for the record, Mr Mayor, my residents are very pleased that crime is down and public transport is safer. We have seen, as Mr Tracey said, a zero...

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

Mr Mayor, as you will have noted, Monday, 16 May was Middlesex Day, marked by the flying of the flag of the ancient county of Middlesex outside Eland House at Whitehall. Of course, many of the villages and towns that make up outer London that you have just referred to lie in the traditional county of Middlesex and are represented by Members sitting around this table. Will you ensure that the traditional county of Middlesex, beloved of many Londoners and many of our constituents, will not disappear from the folk and civic memory of this great city?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Just a quick question, Mr Mayor. Can you tell me which boroughs your outer London adviser has visited in the last three months?

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

During the recommendations from the Outer London Commission, they did suggest liberalising parking and making transport easier for people visiting shopping centres in outer London. We were recently very pleased to welcome you to Romford and I just wondered if you had detected any enthusiasm amongst the citizens of Romford for perhaps a reintroducing congestion charge or any of the other proposals which Labour members used to come up with.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

What, then, in your opinion, is the most important outer London town centre to which you are addressing Londoners' resources?