• 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...

• 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...