• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Mr Mayor, if I were you I would treat with some scepticism any quotes that you hear from Members on the other side of the Chamber about what the new Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority said yesterday, because he performed very well and gave us a very informative response to the questions that were asked, and he is not being quoted correctly this morning. -

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Are you aware, as I know the Chair is from his Twittering, of the campaigning techniques of the Liberal Democrats? I know the Chair Twittered about it last night. The one that involves inventing a cut, putting on a concerned face, tilting your head like Lady Diana [Diana, Princess of Wales] --

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Mr Mayor, do you not think it is rather interesting and, indeed, dishonest, that every time this debate about police numbers is raised by the opposition parties, they never mention the growth in Special Constable recruitment?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Just very quickly I would ask you to join me in extending our thanks and appreciation to the work that Crystal Palace has done across the borough border in the area of Beckenham, in my constituency, which is where its training ground is located and a significant amount of its community outreach is done. I would just like to ask you to join my thanks and recognition of the work it has done in my constituency.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

It is astonishing hypocrisy is it not, Mr Mayor, from Nicky Gavron when everybody knows that the biggest bulldozer of liveable habitable homes was, in fact, John Prescott [former Deputy Prime Minister] and it is astonishing hearing this? I wonder, Mr Mayor, on the subject of housing targets, whether or not you welcome and will implement the proposals in the Conservative Green Paper which says that regional government will no longer impose housing targets?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Mr Mayor, will you ask Transport for London, however, to look at the scheme that is sort of completed on the north side of Blackfriars Bridge, which has led to even further delays in traffic flowing from the north to the south, particularly by the application of large swathes of asphalt which have narrowed the carriageway? Will you also look at the bizarre situation on Southwark Bridge where concrete barriers have been laid in some vain attempt to protect the cycle lane which, again, has narrowed the carriageway and, frankly, is a vast waste of Transport for London's (TfL) overstretched...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Mr Mayor, do you share my relief that the party which advocates a bridge between Newham and Bexley as an alleviation to the closure of a bridge in Hammersmith and a bridge in Chelsea is no longer responsible for transport planning in this city?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Just briefly: most Labour Members are also members of a party known as the Cooperative Party, which strongly supports community land trusts. You are perhaps not aware, but you should be, that you inherited from your predecessor a commitment to TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation) and London Citizens to support a community land trust. I signed that undertaking and there was some progress under the previous Mayor. The difference between us and Cornwall is that land is very cheap in Cornwall and land is very expensive in London. What this leads to is that the business case for a...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

What are you going to do about it? You have given your verbal support but are you going to give any GLA support? I know Richard Blakeway [Mayoral Adviser for Housing] visited St Clements Hospital so could you not help those communities coming forward with this idea?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 24 February 2010

Mr Mayor, I hope that the various agencies are alert to the effect that that will have of the British National Party (BNP) deciding to stand for the Mayoralties of Hackney, Lewisham and Newham and that the authorities are alert to any of the pressures that may take place amongst the communities in those particular areas. I view its decision with some trepidation because, where it goes, there are always problems.