• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, in contrast with our policies where we are increasing investment in the National Health Service, as Andrew Lansley said, are you aware that Andy Burnham MP from the Labour Party in June 2010 called for the Government to withdraw plans to increase NHS spending in real terms year-on-year? He said that otherwise the commitment would visit real damage on other services such as social care. So, where is the Labour Party in this message that we have been hearing this morning?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, I just want to raise the issue of Chase Farm. In November 2007 on your election trail you stood outside the hospital and said, 'The fight back against the rational hasty closures of vital London starts here,' and that it was your job to make sure that the public voices are heard. Well, Andrew Lansley [Secretary of State for Health] has currently given a stay of only three weeks left now for that hospital. Are you making representations to back up those public opinions that do not want vital services cut?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, you do have responsibility for healthcare inequalities in London --

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

The deficit denial that is coming from across the floor is always interesting to listen to. Could you tell me - because I am slightly confused - how long was the previous Labour Government in power for, Mayor?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, you have twice mentioned this morning the police cost of public order. One of the big costs there is always overtime. In fact it only uses up 7% of overtime and 93% of overtime goes on other things. That might be a cut worth making. I wanted to say you do not have to be on the platform to make a speech to be at the demonstration. I am walking with my local Green Party. If you would like to join us we would love to have you. You would be very welcome. Will you come? Will you come...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, I am going to be on the march on Saturday for a number of issues. One of those is the cuts to policing that have taken place. What are you doing to stand up to the black hole that is going to develop, and is developing, in police budgets over the next few years?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

I have always seen you as totally neutral, Chair. It is interesting though to hear who around this table is going to be on the march on Saturday. I have to say, Mayor, I will not be joining the protest march and, if the performance of John and Joanne is anything to go by, perhaps marchers should be taking their sleeping bags along, rather than preparing to riot. Just in case someone does stir up anything other than apathy on Saturday, what are the measures you are putting in place to ensure that Londoners can continue to go about their...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

): I am not going to be on the march but on Saturday many hundreds of thousands of people throughout London will do as they have done on every Saturday; they will be out there helping the community, they will be out there helping their local scout troop, they will be helping train young footballers, they will be clearing the river banks. They will be doing something useful. They will be doing something to help the Big Society. Would it not be infinitely better, Mayor, if the people who were on the march - like Mr Biggs and Ms McCartney...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, can we remind ourselves that the function of the EMA was to encourage students to maintain their positions in full time education after the statutory leaving age? Research from the National Foundational of Educational Research says that 90% of students who receive the allowance would continue in full time education even without it, so would you agree with me that this is another example, as we discussed earlier with some of the projects we inherited from the previous administration through the LDA, that this is a poorly targeted funding stream with a high degree of what in the business...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, did you detect a contradiction in Dick's written question? At point one he asked you to confirm that the Merton borough SNTs have not changed and that there are two PCs per ward, yet in point two he asks you to confirm that the budget for next year provides for the current model of only one PC. Which one do you think is right?