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

John Biggs (AM): With respect to the Conservatives, this man wants to run our country for God's sake; he should be able to answer any question we throw at him.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Lovely. The reason I put this question down was because I had seen your Time for Action update and I have got some questions on it. When we did the scrutiny into your original document last year we were promised that, by this stage, we should have had action plans for each stream of work that were fully costed. I am just wondering where they are because we have not seen them yet.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

I would you like to focus on transport please.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Mr Mayor, last night I was at a meeting of local constituents and a couple of them complained about the situation that is now developing in Hornchurch on a Saturday night where the black cab rank continually overflows and the cabs queued in behind it block up the rest of the traffic. Can you talk to the Public Carriage Office to get it to amend its plans to actually provide more ranks in outer London so that taxis are available to take people home when they need them and they are not blocking up the traffic and hampering other road...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

But this is actually a specialist unit. I do not know if you have visited or seen any of the work. The fact is all the police officers in that unit - they are all police officers first of all - they are all HGV drivers, they are all qualified transport managers and, also, they have got health and safety delegated powers. Now they are very unusual because they can actually stop a lorry, assess the problems with it and then force the company to fix it. If you get rid of them you actually get rid of a very...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Mr Mayor, will you join with me in congratulating the Mossbourne Academy which has --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Well I am glad I am the last woman standing to speak! Chair, thank you. It was just to extend what Mr Boff had said. I just resent the cherry picking approach and will the Mayor join me in congratulating all those other academies - in fact all the schools in London - who have done so well --

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Those of us who sat through the previous eight years of secrecy in the LDA and, frankly, Stalinist control from the centre, actually welcome the new transparent approach. Can I ask you though, Mr Mayor, to build on that by issuing a direction, or even just advice to the LDA, that they make more, or all of their agendas if possible - I accept some things are commercially confidential - but everything except those confidential figures should be public documents, so that we can all see what is happening at the LDA Board and form an opinion?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Mr Mayor, if we can move back to pan-London policy and away from Hammersmith and Fulham for the moment and also get away from policy by think tank? If those of us that have read Observers and Guardians over the years took notice of think tanks then we would all be going pretty crazy. So let us place think tanks where they should be, which is aways over there. Would you agree that the threat to quality of life on our housing estates has been very much this raid by Government on the Decent Homes programme to cross fund national...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

That is an interesting point. Are you going to tell the Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner to increase police officers on the buses? Are you going to tell him to do that?