• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

I just want to say, quickly, I had the pleasure, two weeks ago, of introducing some of the residents that have been spoken about here this morning, to Her Majesty the Queen, and they did not seek to ask any favours and they will not, I am sure, appreciate the experience they have had, some of it quite ghastly, just explored here this morning in this haphazard way. Both Members are right; there are issues to talk about, but I would just hope that the Mayor would consider that this issue does not rest with one Member and that there...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

hank you. I recognise the constraints but I think there are three types of Londoners, all of whom are paying through the Council Tax, as you so rightly say. The first is the people who have put up with very, very severe disruption for seven years by living in the middle of a building site with all the noise, pollution and everything that goes with that. I think they are in a very, very different position to other Londoners. The second category, I would say, would be disadvantaged communities. In order for us to make good on the promise that...

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

Mr Mayor, whilst I, obviously, have a large degree of sympathy for people who have found the Olympic building works disruptive, and have been living near a huge building site, it is worth reminding ourselves what the end result of that building site will be, which will be excellent sporting facilities, parkland and travel infrastructure, so their perseverance will be repaid by huge regeneration. There are, however, millions of Londoners who live in south London, south west London, west London and north London who will not see, directly, the results of that building work. So I think, whilst it may...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Excellent sound bite. Excellent election pledge. What happens when you actually venture out of Zone 1? You came to my patch. You visited Harrow-on-the-Hill Station - a good photo opportunity, great publicity, but what happened soon after you left? £25 million funding for accessibility to the station was scrapped. If that is what happens when you venture out of Zone 1, I suggest you remain in Zone 1. Thank you.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

OK. Just for the record, Mr Mayor, Members, I believe, or the Secretariat, are informed about your whereabouts at 7am on the day. That is hardly adequate warning.

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

Mr Mayor, I think one of the things that the Members opposite particularly do not like is that when you go out and about to various parts of London, the media is forced to interact with people outside Zone 1 and, uncomfortably for the Members opposite, sometimes those people that they meet in outer London express views which are contrary to the slightly central London orientated views that would otherwise be expressed if they only interacted with you in central London. I think it is really, really important that you, Assembly Members and the media get the full range of...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Could I just be clear then, Mr Mayor? You are saying, if we had asked you a question [in writing], you would have told us today what the fare rise is?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

John Biggs (AM): I guess Londoners will be concerned that you are more worried about the contents of your belly than the contents of their wallets, because another announcement which we understand you are making tomorrow is on fares, which is an important part of your Transport Strategy. The question I have is - and this has been widely trailed to the media - given that you are apparently going to do this tomorrow, and you therefore know what the fares increase will be, you have therefore already written the press statements and the briefings and the releases, why do...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Thank you. That is good to know. I would like to work out from your analysis of the idea of Christians, or non-Muslim people, fasting during Ramadan. You mentioned the idea when you went to the mosque, I believe, in east London, care of Navin Shah's written question to you. I look forward to seeing Navin in ethics training in the next coming weeks. You actually mentioned the 600,000 Muslims here in London. Not bad when the population is roughly over nine million. I feel that, by making such comments as this, that non-Muslims should go on a fast and...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Thank you for that, Mr Mayor. I appreciate that work is being done on this - but I wanted to take this opportunity just to remind you of the importance for many people in my constituency, particularly those who either live on or use the A2 as a main route to and from work since the enforced closure of the Blackwall Tunnel and the contraflow by the previous incumbent of your post. Many people in my constituency still find themselves very disadvantaged in the mornings, particularly, and the tailback on the A2 seems to get longer each time I look...