• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Sian Berry AM: I want to go back to housing again but also just to ask about public land and alternatives to selling it off. The new Mayor and TfL have made the positive decision to focus more of their public land on joint ventures and long-term rental homes, which will help to deliver the homes London needs and will create a long-term revenue stream, rather than selling them off. I recently visited Holloway Prison, which is owned by the Ministry of Justice and has great potential for this. Do you agree that this approach of not selling off land...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Len Duvall AM: I would like to return to the issue about rail privatisation and the issues around that. Can I thank you for your earlier statement in saying that you would come back before us? We are very grateful. We know that you do not have to and we look forward to further opportunities to pose questions to you on topical issues. In terms of the transport announcements made yesterday and the links with the wider issues around economic performance, would you agree that the issues in Kent and London coincide? We all want the best for the rail...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Tom Copley AM: Good morning, Minister. Thank you for being here today. I listened with interest to your exchange with Assembly Member Devenish. It feels to me like your predecessor in the previous Government seemed to put all his eggs in the Starter Homes basket and in the affordable homeownership basket. What you seem to have said by saying that there is no silver bullet is perhaps that that was not the right approach. Do you and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) support a full range of tenures and affordable tenures for London and does that include...

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

Tony Devenish AM: Minister, thank you very much for the £3.15 billion. If we listened to the Mayor, we would think he had written the cheque rather than you, but we do appreciate the cheque that came from you. One of my concerns is the lack of actual detail we have had from the Mayor on how he is going to deliver the 90,000 affordable houses and the rest of his commitments. Are you looking for more detail from the Mayor in due course to make sure he delivers? You have given him the money. He now needs to get...

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

Florence Eshalomi AM: It is great to see you here as a London Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon, not too far from my constituency in Lambeth and Southwark. One of the main issues that has been on your agenda and I am sure in your inbox as well has been the issue around Southern Rail. In the run-up to the mayoral election, quite a number of the candidates committed to looking at further rail devolution in London and it is right to say that it is something that has worked quite well with London Overground. Given that there is...

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

Len Duvall AM: Can I take it, Mr　Mayor, in terms of answering your first question to Fiona　Twycross, that the issues around the childcare crisis, which has increasingly developed because of the Government’s promise of 30　hours free childcare without thinking it through, is that you chairing this inter-departmental group is about bringing the strategic contribution of City Hall together on to these matters, like shining a light on to it? Is that what you are trying to achieve?

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

Len Duvall AM: Thank you, Chairman. Mr　Mayor, I was surprised to be contacted by a number of journalists yesterday and the surprise was that they had been leaked very much the answers that you have given to this Assembly, but the question they were asking was - and one that you have tended to say but not in the full extent that they were prepared to say - whether we are asking you to break the law. Let us be very clear about this: this is not about the Government any more. The Government took its decision to exclude us...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chairman. As you have just picked up, Mr　Mayor, this is an emotive issue and so accuracy is quite important. Yesterday in The Evening Standard, an article that you are quoted in said that you would find it hard to justify spending up to £2.1　million of taxpayer cash over the next four years on a new scheme. There have been a number of meetings, as you said in your preamble, both pre-May with the former Mayor - and the comments you attribute to him are wholly inaccurate, by the way, and we can come back to...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 14 September 2016

Peter Whittle AM: Could I just echo my support for what Assembly Member　Berry has said, Mr　Mayor. This is a fulltime job and, indeed, it is worth noting that in fact we are the lowest-paid of all Assembly Members in the United Kingdom (UK), I believe, as it stands. Also, it has to be said, Mr　Mayor, that you are already catered for with a pension and it is extremely important that, as Assembly Member　Berry has pointed out, this is a huge discouragement for people who want to maybe make a career in politics. I would urge you to reconsider and in...

• 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...