• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Mr Mayor, you will know that up there in Barnet we are a very cultured lot and we enjoy our nights at the West End theatre or concerts and what have you and that this evening closure from 10 pm is going to put the kibosh on all those thousands of my constituents who enjoy that sort of thing, or, indeed, enjoy spending a night in the West End wining and dining and what have you. A couple of years ago Tim O'Toole [former Managing Director, London Underground] offered me a stark choice: we could either have weekend closures or...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

You referred to the Tideway Tunnel and in your Water Strategy in the summer you were commendably strong in your support for that. So can you please have a word with Hammersmith and Fulham Council where Thames Water has gone on record as saying that the council's calculated tactics of non-cooperation concerning the construction of the tunnel, is not only delaying it but increasing its costs? So can you please speak for Londoners to your colleagues - Conservative colleagues - in Hammersmith and Fulham and ask them to stop blocking Thames Water's construction and get this tunnel built?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

I wonder, when you are discussing Mogden with Thames Water, you might raise a much longer standing problem, indeed two much longer standing problems. One is the Mogden pong and the Mogden mozzies. For years my constituents have been plagued by mosquitoes accompanied by the most awful smells from Mogden. Thames Water has made the point that their difficulty is that it has, itself, to fund any works which are going to be required to deal with the problems, both that which has been set out by Dick [Tracey] and the problem of the smell and the mosquitoes. I wonder...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

In your answer to Mike Tuffrey you stated that Sir Simon Milton has been to speak to Hammersmith and Fulham Council, who are blocking this scheme, but you failed to say whether he had been successful in persuading them. Could you enlighten us?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 September 2009

Mr Mayor, this is, of course, rightly called an independent strategic review of the buses and, surely, in its independence it has to face the fact that, in the next few years, whichever party is in government, there will have to be some very hard choices about different aspects of the economy and bus fares and bus subsidies and so on have to be one of them. Now you, as Mayor, will be one of the people having to face up to these hard choices. We are regularly told in emails - I am sure you get them, the same...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

For the record I have nothing to hide in my expenses. Also it might be of interest that last night I checked in my garden shed and found that I was fresh out of chicken feed as well! I think that is of some topical interest. I think you are getting the wrong target here, Mayor, which is you are talking about transparency and what we really need to talk about is trust and what happened was a breakdown in trust for Londoners in the Mayor's Office and the quality of your leadership and administration. Would you accept that there...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

It is pleasing to see a permit system and some sort of controls for utility roadworks coming in because there have been so many false dawns under the previous administration, when we were told it was going to happen but it did not. But a lot of the roadworks which cause the worst disruption in London are actually roadworks which are sponsored and managed by TfL itself. That will not bring those under control. An example, of course, is the recent episode which has lasted for about a year with the Gallows Corner flyover due to finish in August. Can...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

On the topic of allowing athletes to get to sporting venues - and I know the timings are quite tight - but can we ensure that the London Triathlon - which is the largest triathlon in the world by numbers of participants and is an absolute international showcase -- can we encourage the DLR to allow athletes - bearing in mind that cycling is one of the three disciplines in triathlon - to bring their bicycles on the DLR to the venue?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

Thank you, Chair. This seems to be an opportune moment to welcome here members of the North East London and Essex Group of Advanced Motorists who are in the audience. Mr Mayor, there are concerns about the future for the Olympic Route Network and the possibility of it being used as a way of introducing by stealth some traffic control measures which then will not be removed after the Games have gone and the party has moved on. Can you assure us that all our roads will be returned to pre-Games state and they will not be clogged up with...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

Mr Mayor, you have already made reference to the views of London boroughs so, for example, my own borough of Barnet did an exhaustive enquiry as to whether we could locate travellers' sites. Under the last Labour/Liberal Democrat administration of Barnet the then Labour Leader of the Council made a very firm statement that, having examined this in great detail, the Council said there were no suitable sites in the London Borough of Barnet. That has since been reinforced by further work by the Conservative administration. So will you accept that in many of these boroughs there is cross-party unanimity...