• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

How many electric vehicles is BMW giving us?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Thanks very much indeed. I think the point is that the Javelin takes seven minutes from St Pancras to Stratford so it does not really matter what fancy car you try to use in replacement, nothing is as fast, of course, as that. Of course part of our bid was won on the fact that we were going to demonstrate how excellent London transport was and I hope that, therefore, you will use this opportunity - and every other opportunity - to go back to LOCOG and the rest to encourage people to use London transport. I picked, as our...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Mr Mayor, Jacques Rogge has of course said on television (TV) that he is prepared to listen to alternatives to Zil lanes and the use of limousines and so on so I hope, when you see him, you will remind him that he said that publicly and that, indeed, in London, we are committed, wherever possible, to using public means of transport, rather that big motor cars. I think a lot of us, though, will have been a bit concerned to read today - although welcoming the sponsorship of BMW - are we going to see an army of BMWs...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

TfL is spending over £100 million on upgrading Green Park Tube Station --

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Thank you, Mr Mayor. The figure of 20,000 attacks over the year was a figure produced by the Evening Standard and was extrapolated out from the returns it had after a freedom of information (FOI) request. One of the things that, I think, would be very interesting is to compare the numbers of attacks, as recorded by hospitals, with those reported to the police because I suspect, unfortunately, that attacks on A&E staff have now become so commonplace that they regard it as just one of the unfortunate by-products of working in those health departments. I would very much like...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Mr Mayor, we recognise also in the reporting of tonight's Evening Standard the number of attacks on paramedics in London. Will you perhaps ask your officers and the MPA officers to liaise with the Fire Authority, where we have done a lot of work on attacks on firefighters and, indeed, where the number of attacks on London firefighters is, I am glad to say, compared to the national average, relatively low, and that involves investment in youth work and other community activities? Will you recognise there could be something to be learned across the GLA group in how to deal...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Mr Mayor, would you undertake possibly to contact John Amaechi, the former basketball star, who was an ambassador for the original Olympic bid, who says that he is not convinced that the language used around legacy, when bidding, is the same that we are using now, and is concerned that both LOCOG and the ODA are falling back on to the physical legacy of the Olympics, rather than what was part of the bid, to increase sports participation? He is very concerned - and I have talked to him myself - that there are not the sports coaches in place...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Actually Seb Coe [Chair, LOCOG] made his point about LOCOG not evaluating the participation when I asked him about this at the Plenary. He did, of course, put the responsibility on yourself and the London boroughs. Can I suggest that you make some contact with the so-called Five Proactive Sport Organisations which are actually, of course, the old Sport England London regions? They are very specifically evaluating what is happening in the boroughs within their pieces of territory. I think you will find that they are the best source of information which my colleague, Andrew Boff, was asking for, because...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Thank you, Chair. We have a Member who is making reference to a graph which I do not believe the Mayor has access to and, certainly, other Assembly Members do not access have to, which makes it impossible for us to actually put forward questions in either support or contradiction or follow up to the points she is making. The use of props is against --

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Mr Mayor, despite that long discussion with our colleague, Val Shawcross, I think it has to be right that Londoners across the board will be really shocked to hear that the bus subsidy is now over £600 million a year and, as you said in your answer, it has gone up from about £20 million. Councillor Phil Taylor in Ealing is regularly writing to us about this constantly climbing bus subsidy and, at the same time, various people write to us to say they do believe that there are too many empty buses running about the roads, particularly in the...