• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Mr Mayor, will you ask Sir Stuart Hampson, if you manage to meet him, about the motive behind the sale? When questioned last night at the Planning and Housing Committee, Sir Stuart indicated that the reason it was doing it was it did not want to contravene the Act that set it up because it had to maximise its income. When I asked him why it was that he was not contravening the Act in 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006 but, magically, in 2010 it is contravening the Act, he said that there had been a review of its property...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Mayor Johnson, firstly, can I thank you for the excellent letter that you and other leaders sent to the Crown Estate in March? What we got was a copy of your letter, but I do not know if it is possible to circulate what their response was? That would be useful. I think, from last night, what we got was they seemed willing to take on a number of points that had been put forward by yourself and leaders of the boroughs: Steve Bullock [Mayor of Lewisham], Jules Pipe, Colin Barrow [Leader, Westminster Council], Keith Moffitt [Leader, Camden Council] and...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

There is a very wide consensus now that what we need in London for key workers is not just part buy/part rent but also we need a new intermediate sub-market rented sector. It does not exist really in London yet and it is in your Housing Strategy. It does not exist apart from a couple of other examples which may be very useful.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

It is good to see the Greens making good use of their limited ten minutes, Mr Mayor! You may recall your predecessor was actually convinced by the Greens to issue a proclamation to Londoners about how many times they should flush the toilet, and in what circumstances, during the day.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

Can I come in and agree with Steve [O'Connell] in terms of the opportunity to have a new local government bill for London. Would you not agree that there are a number of areas where we need powers devolving from national government to region, and onwards to local, but if we are to have more powers for the GLA we need to have more scrutiny powers for the Assembly? I hope that all the parties round the Assembly would join in that process to look at how to increase the powers of both sides of the GLA. Would you not...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

I think the point is it follows on really from the point about the small shops. I have always campaigned, as have other members of this group, about the Congestion Charge. We urge you - again it came up on the doorsteps, 'Boris campaigned about getting rid of the Congestion Charge and we are delighted to hear that you are proceeding with that, but, for heaven's sake, can we speed the process up?' We talked about small shops. We talked about parking. We talked about the implications actually on the high street. We talked to the shopkeepers and residents in...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

Mr Mayor, the decline of small shops and local district centres is a major issue in outer London areas in particular. You are very enthusiastic about super hubs like Brent Cross. What policy commitments, in principle, are you able to give to the Assembly today to actually reverse the problems that outer London is facing in terms of this serious decline?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

Would you consider lobbying for the business rate, or a proportion of it, to be returned to local councils?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

Mr Mayor, that was one of the points, picking up on Nicky's [Nicky Gavron AM] comment. As the husband of a small shop owner, the two pressures that come to bear on our shops are twofold; mainly rent and rent reviews, which are out of the control of this building, and also business rates. They are the two main demands upon small businesses. The councils, as has been pointed out, are merely collecting the business rate. I think it would be helpful if we were all to lobby and support a retention, in part, of business rates by local authorities...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 May 2010

Can I just check, because I think Andrew is right to talk about the £9.3 billion because my information is that, within that £9.3 billion - in other words within the LOCOG allocation - there is already a non-accredited media operation planned for, so that this spending is actually in addition to what is already being spent on non-accredited media in the £9.3 billion.