• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Andrew Boff AM: Do you welcome the particular aspect of the council elections in London that saw the complete, total decimation of UKIP?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Tony Devenish AM: I wanted to make a different point, but I do agree with Assembly Member Kurten in one thing: we do need to dial down the rhetoric on both sides. You would agree that Londoners in my constituency and particularly police officers are in danger of getting hurt if this goes wrong. We do not want a public order offence at all. You would agree with that, Mr Mayor, and I hope you work with the MPS to make sure that we keep Londoners safe during this very important visit.

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chairman. This is a very important aim and obviously we are fully supportive of it. Will you recognise the achievements of the Conservative Party, Mr Mayor, which is the only political party ever to have elected two female Prime Ministers entirely on merit?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, the hostile environment policy initiated under the current Prime Minister, then Home Secretary, was obviously aimed at illegal immigrants, but that seems to have fed into a hostile environment for all immigration. We have seen the Home Office basically being very incompetent in targeting in fact British citizens who in many cases have been imprisoned in their home country or deported. Now, as Mayor of London, will you be making representations to the Home Secretary that they end this hostile environment policy?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Tony Devenish AM: Mr Mayor, you will remember that the Violent Crime Summit was held in the pre-election period because of the elections and you will agree, I hope, that there was real in-depth insight from people of all parties, borough leaders, MPs and Assembly Members on the day. Are you going to publish a note of what was said to make sure we do not miss any of that good learning and deep experience, please?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the leadership you have shown in tackling the problem of knife crime in London and seeking to address the issue head-on. As Mayor, you have spoken about taking a public health approach to tackling knife crime. Please could you explain to me what you exactly mean by this and what challenges you foresee in implementing such an approach in London?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Navin Shah AM: Mr Mayor, in my patch - I will start with Harrow, which is considered to be one of the safest boroughs in London - on 6 May we had two youths aged 13 and 15 shot at. In Brent, on 1 May [2018] on the border of Harrow, a man in his 30s was murdered in a shooting near Queensbury Station. The community is shocked. They are looking for reassurance and action. Both the Chairman and you have mentioned the cross-party summit and the informal Police and Crime Committee meeting we had in April [2018], which were...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Andrew Boff AM: At your Violent Crime Summit on 10 April [2018], the Commissioner [of Police of the Metropolis], your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, and the Home Secretary of the time all expressed the view that much of the surge in violence that we have witnessed on London’s streets was linked to the demands of the illegal drugs market. Would you agree with that view?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you very much. On the consultation point, I am pleased that over the years I have been here to see an improvement in the way TfL has worked with local communities and I welcome the new Partnerships Team. On a strategic point, I will not specially plead on individual routes, but for some considerable time we have been talking about the rebalancing of bus services from inner London to outer London, particularly zones 5 and 6, which many of us represent, where they are overdependent on bus services because there are no alternatives. I regret that...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chairman. In Barnet and Camden there have been recent cuts to bus services. There have been consultations on some of these; for example, on the complete cut of a route like the original route 13, but the problem is that the outcomes of the consultations are ignored anyway. If there are frequency reductions, there is no consultation at all, and that can be compounded if there are several routes cut in this way at different times. For example, Golders Green to Finchley Road via Childs Hill has seen an 8% reduction overall; Finchley Road to...