• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

Mr Mayor, do you share my inability to understand the way the Labour Group particularly criticise you for your alleged unwillingness to look at big, exciting and novel projects, particularly in the transport field, and then almost within the same breath, criticise you for looking at big, innovative, exciting potential projects in the transport field? I am tempted to use the word 'double-think' if I were not concerned about the sinister overtones of that word. No, I am going to use the word 'double-think'. Are you shocked by the double-think of the Labour group?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

Chair, can I take a different tack to the Mayor. As we have all seen, there has been a feasibility review produced by the steering group and it really poses more questions than it answers. Particularly on business feasibility, the airlines have recently said they are not going to go there. Studies by your own GLA Economics have suggested the Londoners who use the airports the most in Central London, are not terribly keen to go over to that end of town to get on a plane. Why are they putting up this potential proposal of a £5 million-funded investigation...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

I want to turn to some of the other crime commitments you made during the campaign in your manifesto and I am going to quote from your manifesto. This was something you said time and time again and you made to be a very symbolic part of your election campaign. You said, 'I will chair the Metropolitan Police Authority'

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

Mr Mayor, I had also understood that a manifesto was for a full Mayoralty and not for less than two years.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

You made an election commitment to finish the London Cycle Network Plus and in 2008/09, which was the last year of Ken's [Livingstone] administration, £33 million was spent. Last year £12 million was spent and this year we have absolutely no idea what is going to be spent on the London Cycle Network. Are you going to ensure the budget to complete it as you promised?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

I would like to just ask you a few more questions, Mr Mayor, about your transport manifesto of getting Londoners moving, which I read daily.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

First, before I pursue this subject with the Mayor, I would like to welcome today learned students from Sutton High and my good friend and colleague from the Croydon Guardian, Mike Didymus, who I like to work very closely with, of course. This is a really helpful question from John [Biggs], two years into the Mayoralty and I think it is worth exploring some of the manifesto pledges of two years ago that brought you into this Office with a thumping majority. The concern to our people in Sutton and Croydon was around their safety and you had a very...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

Mr Mayor, would you not agree with me that, in order to deliver your ambitious housing targets, you need willing partners in the boroughs? I am sure you would agree with that. Will you, therefore, contact Councillor Tim Archer from Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets who is concerned that that Labour authority is underachieving its housing targets by 36% - and, let us face it, it is arguably the borough with the most need of affordable housing - and that it is the only under-performing local authority that is trying to wriggle out of its commitment to your ambitious housing targets?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

I want to refer to another of your manifesto pledges, Mayor. It is the big one you made on housing. This is a quote from page 14 of your manifesto: 'There is no question that we need more housing. We will meet this challenge with a commitment to build 50,000 affordable homes by 2011.' With great anticipation we imagined that that would be 50,000 bricks and mortar new build. Do you think people realised that you were not going to be building these new homes and that a lot of them would not even be new; that they would be...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2010

I would like to begin just by welcoming some of the residents of Gidea Park to Mayor's Question Time this morning. Gidea Park is a very pleasant part of the London Borough of Havering and Petits Ward, which is a part of Gidea Park, actually delivered the highest ward vote for you, Boris, in my constituency at the time. The reason that they did it was that they wanted to have a Mayor for all of London rather than a Mayor for Zone 1, which is what they had experienced for the eight years previously. Can you tell us a...