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

Navin Shah AM: A very brief response from me, Mr Mayor. I do see the London is Open for business campaign as a gateway to inward investment, but are you aware of a potential conflict, the Silvertown Quays development, that risks damaging relationships with a major overseas investor and sending a message that London is not open for some? The issue at Silvertown Quays appears to be one of transparency. It is unclear as to who is making decisions about investment into publicly owned land and how they are arriving at those decisions. Can I have your quick response, please...

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

Steve O’Connell AM: Very briefly, Mr Mayor, as possibly the only Assembly Member brought up on a council estate - Bellingham, wonderful place - in a family-sized council house, with this money that you will be giving to councils, will you be urging and indeed directing them to build more family-sized council homes?

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

Tony Devenish AM: Mr Mayor, I welcome your announcement on councils, but how many specific GLA full-time equivalent staff are you able to provide to support councils in this very important work?

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

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, part of affordable housing: you are particularly keen on social housing, which I think we on this side certainly are. Last year, you called on the Prime Minister to appoint a Social Housing Commissioner to speak up for social housing tenants, who often feel their voices are not listened to. What was the response from Government?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Tom Copley AM: Thank you very much, Chairman. Mr Mayor, I very much welcome the announcement yesterday about this funding to deliver 10,000 new council homes, which I think is going to be the first time that City Hall is doing something which I wanted it to do, which is specifically funding councils directly to deliver council housing. I have a few questions about that. One of the issues that I always find boroughs are tearing their hair out about is that these ridiculous Government rules prevent them from combining their Right to Buy receipt money with other pots of...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 May 2018

Nicky Gavron AM: New London Architecture has just produced its annual review of what is happening to tall buildings in terms of statistics in London, and the numbers have jumped to 500. By the way, there are an increasing number in outer London. I wondered what view you had of that and whether you thought the new London Plan would make any difference in terms of these jumps in numbers.

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Shaun Bailey AM: Mr Mayor, we are talking about victims and the focus on young people, which is very fine. However, I have met a lot of people now who have had their children murdered through a knife crime incident. There is beginning to be a feeling that the parents and the communities left behind are being forgotten. Can you give us an idea how you and the GLA could do something about making sure projects that work specifically with parents can receive some of this funding? Again, they are beginning to feel they are not part of the conversation...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

You alluded, Mr Mayor, to the two young men who were stabbed to death and a third teenage victim who was hospitalised and lucky to be alive, all within half a mile of each other in Camden on the evening of 20 February [2018]. The following day you rightly called for a meeting with the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to discuss knife crime, which in London started to rise four years ago under your predecessor. What was the outcome of your request? I believe you have seen the Home Secretary. Have you seen the Prime Minister? What is...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Croydon Council has been doing everything it can to tackle knife crime, which has been a particular issue in the borough. It has committed £250,000 to support young people in the borough to make positive choices. The local police force and the Council has also run an engagement campaign that saw police and the Council go into shopping centres in Croydon to talk directly to the community. The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden, visited the borough last month and has praised the strength of its knife crime plan. How will you ensure that best practice, such as...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 March 2018

Thank you very much, Chairman. My colleague Assembly Member Florence Eshalomi would, if she were here, be echoing your remarks about Thames Water’s performance, the lack of information and the lack of co-ordination between statutory agencies, but she would ask - and maybe you could ask your [proposed] Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience to include - whether there is a case for us supporting strengthening that community resilience in times of emergency and whether you have a role via the Resilience Strategy for us to invest some time and energy into making sure that if there is community resilience...