• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: Mr Mayor, everyone around this Chamber held the former Mayor to account on the level of crime in this town, notwithstanding the financial pressures he was under. You are nearly two years into your mayoralty and crime is going up in London, serious knife crime and serious youth violence that we all see as a major challenge in the city. Around this horseshoe we all accept the MPS deserves a proper financial settlement. However, Mr Mayor, surely you must take some responsibility for the crime situation in London because it is under your watch. How do you...

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

F lorence Eshalomi AM: Just on the Business Plan, Mr Mayor, I am sure you will be aware of Monday’s tragic accident on the South Circular, near the Tulse Hill gyratory, where a young woman lost her life. Four vehicles, two cars and two trucks, ran over her and no one stopped. In the last business plan your predecessor did look at this and my predecessor, Valerie Shawcross CBE, is also looking at the Tulse Hill gyratory. In that Business Plan your predecessor did state that the Tulse Hill gyratory would be excluded in the ten‑year Business Plan, which is...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. There have been great improvements in Putney High Street since the cleaner buses started in March and there was the most recent launch this week of the cleaner bus routes through Brixton. Even when we see the fully expanded, beefed‑up ULEZ coming in, there are still going to be some hot spots beyond that central area. I just wondered if you could tell us a little bit more about how we are planning to deal with hot spots, Tooting Broadway being one and Heathrow being another, as well as some in Kingston...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Peter Whittle AM: Carrying on from Assembly Member Arnold, I am not talking about the various initiatives you spoke about earlier, but what are the components of the London Needs You Alive campaign?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Shaun Bailey AM: Let us see if we can change the trend. In your draft London Plan, you give quite a clear indication that you would like to support councils that are using joint ventures (JVs) to deliver on housing because housing is a big issue in London. Lots of councils of all different colours are using JVs to get things done. Is this still the case? Are you still willing to support councils that are looking to use JVs to deliver housing in London?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Susan Hall AM: Mayor, now that you have accepted in your new draft London Plan that fire safety can be a planning issue, will you now agree to review the fire safety of the tower blocks that you have previously approved on a call-in, especially the 17-storey Palmerston Road tower blocks in Harrow, where the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was not even consulted on the proposals and where there is no commitment to a sprinkler system?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. Indeed, you talked about local context earlier in your answer to Andrew Boff and I refer you to some announcements with words around protecting green spaces. Can you explain, therefore, why in your new local Plan you are encouraging garden-grabbing?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Mr Mayor, I would like to ask you about the draft London Plan, but before I do I want to just say that I really welcome the fact that this Plan is more people-centred. I want to follow up from what Andrew Boff [AM] was saying about another aspect of families living. It is families with children and young people living at high densities. That is what my question is about. I noticed that the draft London Plan is very strong on play policies and they are really good, innovative policies on outdoor play and independent mobility...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Yes, Assembly Member Russell went down to my constituency to visit Bio Collectors this morning, which I had visited previously. What is really encouraging is that the draft Environment Strategy talks about separating the six main recyclables and encouraging the separation of food waste. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has made it absolutely clear in all its reports that once people start to separate, the amount goes down. The concern about potential issues relating to the South London Waste Partnership probably is one step behind the possibility of us encouraging...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 December 2017

Peter Whittle AM: Mr Mayor, just carrying on from Assembly Member Berry’s point there about homelessness, I would very much like to know your view on this. One thing that has become clear to me from being on the Police and Crime Committee is that rough sleeping, which is a big part of homelessness, comes under the definition of antisocial behaviour, would you believe. It seems to me that this is not an antisocial problem; it is a social problem. Do you think that there is an anomaly there that it actually comes under the same list as - I...