• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Sian Berry AM: The Green Group would just like to agree with Assembly Member　Pidgeon that we ought to be looking at working something up within the current budget and that it does provide for a pension. I wanted to ask the Mayor what message he thinks he is sending to someone from a normal background who is maybe aspiring to be Mayor or an Assembly Member and takes that very seriously as a proper job - as we expect our Mayor and Assembly Members to do - if he is denying them access to any kind of workplace pension, unlike...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: The 1999 GLA Act did provide specifically for the Mayor and Assembly Members to receive pensions, which is very different to local authority councillors. Given that you agree that everybody should have a workplace pension, would you agree for officers to work up options for Members of this authority to be able to continue to receive a pension but within the existing pensions budget so that we would not be spending a penny more?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chairman. I wondered if you have had the chance to read or been informed about the assessment of the Garden Bridge Trust’s business plan that was drawn up by Dan　Anderson of Fourth Street [tourism consultant].

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Tony Devenish AM: Can I ask the Mayor if he intends for Energy for Londoners to compete with or work with the “big six” energy companies and other players in the market, please?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Len Duvall AM: I request to come in on this question, if we may. Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): Yes, you can. Len Duvall AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, maybe one of the issues - and we are not saying that we are completely on form - is that everyone would want to see the Carnival survive and prosper. Learning from the back of New Years’ ticketing - albeit there are bigger numbers and a larger scale - could we investigate the issue of ticketing for the Carnival and therefore control some of the numbers and some of the issues? Most...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Andrew Dismore (Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden): Could I ask you about Cycle Superhighway 11? This has proved very controversial and divisive locally, with thousands of views both for and against. You have told TfL to continue to work on Cycle Superhighway 11, an instruction that I very much support, but there are quite a few issues still to be worked through such as the effect on bus services, relocated bus stops, traffic at Swiss Cottage, Regent’s Park gate closures and the impact when combined with High Speed 2 (HS2) construction traffic. Once TfL has firmed up its plans...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 07 September 2016

Chair, will you agree with me that it is not unknown when an organisation is going through a transformation that it often gets an interim chief executive? It is not unheard of getting interim chief executives, particularly when organisations are moving from one sort of values to possibly a different set of values. The cost cannot be measured merely in terms of money but also value in terms of what you get in the interim chief executive. Would you think that would be a consideration playing on the mind of the A&U Committee?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 07 September 2016

I do echo my colleague’s point. In terms of continuity of personnel, would you not agree with me that when you have senior people doing a job and being accountable, continuity over a period of time is absolutely essential?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 07 September 2016

I have a question to pick up on my colleague’s point. It strikes me that this recruitment process will limit the people who can be recruited. If you are a senior fire person elsewhere and take this interim role, you will not be able to leave the role you are in. Correct me if I am wrong - and I am prepared to be wrong - but would you not have to convince your own fire authority to loan you to us?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 07 September 2016

On the interim appointment - and I know that you cannot make a call now in terms of any preferred candidate - I am hoping there are discussions with the recruitment company to make sure we try to encourage some women and BAME candidates to apply for the role.