• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, in your earlier answer to Nicky Gavron - and we welcome the answer you gave of taking it aside and looking again - some of the groups that you want to participate are going to be at a disadvantage. While I am a great supporter of local government institution, it is not one of its great qualities of transparency and interaction with people in terms of planning issues and explaining where they go along. The disadvantage is that some of your areas that you have said will have resources are not all the strategic areas...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Navin Shah AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, how does the draft Plan recognise priorities and concerns of outer London boroughs which are facing unprecedented levels of development?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes. Mr Mayor, in the light of rail fare increases, I am sure Londoners would welcome further devolution of suburban train lines to London Overground. You are aware that last summer the Gibb report [Chris Gibb, Changes to Improve the Performance of the Southern Network and Train Services, and Restore Passenger Confidence, 2016] recommended the transfer of the Great Northern metro line, which goes through my constituency, and the East Croydon-Milton Keynes line to TfL, but the Government said it required further assessment. Is TfL involved in that assessment and how hopeful are you that this year...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you. I will ask a less discursive question, Mr Mayor. I certainly welcome the significant measures, any that are announced, of course, and I do not doubt your sincerity in addressing this critical issue. However, how will this Assembly and the Police and Crime Committee and others be able to judge your effectiveness in addressing this issue in, say, two years’ time?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Jennette Arnold OBE AM: Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, can I just make a quick comment before I ask my question? Can I just feed back from a meeting of my Independent Advisory Group (IAG) in Hackney because you mentioned Hackney earlier? I was there this week and let me just say this. At this IAG - and I have been a member now for 17 years - we have had some stuff in Hackney and all of us around that table totally endorsed our Borough Commander’s implementation of stop-and-search and activities under Operation Sceptre, which included knife sweeps...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 18 January 2018

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, firstly, thank you very much for your very comprehensive answers and also what you told us in your opening statement. I want to ask you three specific questions, and my time is limited and so I ask you to be as brief as possible. You talked already about the public health-led approach on this. Can we know what you are thinking here? Could you put some flesh on it and give Londoners a vision of what this actually means in practice?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Commissioner, is the possession of cannabis a high-priority crime for you?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Susan Hall AM: To the Commissioner, what is the MPS going to do to stop forced marriages and how are you recording forced marriages in London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Andrew Boff AM: Commissioner, I am aware that the Mayor has just said we are not exactly like every other city or every other country. I accept that, but is it not time that we did learn the international lessons, such as the way of youth engagement in Iceland, where they have effectively turned it around? For example, 45% of young people regularly got drunk 15 years ago and that figure is now 5%. One of the things they have done is to combine love with a bit of enforcement. They have a curfew for young people. It is beyond...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 21 December 2017

Shaun Bailey AM: Welcome and hello, Mayor. Your Knife Crime Strategy is a good start. One of the things it is missing is more support for parents. Do you think there is anything else you could do around that? I will ask that of you and then of the Commissioner.