• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Yes, Mr Mayor, are you as appalled as I am at the lack of faith that the leader of the Labour Group seems to have in democracy and the idea he seems to have that democratically elected governments should not be allowed to govern in the name of the people who elected them and that instead we should have unelected people living in other countries telling us how we should live our lives?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Thank you, Chair. On the subject of step-free access, within the very welcome doubling of the allocation is there any money to bring step-free access to South Kensington, which, as you know, gets more people through it every year than Gatwick Airport and yet is inaccessible to large proportions of the population?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, I am sure we are all indebted to mayorwatch.co.uk, the absolute go-to place for anyone who is interested in London government, for informing us that TfL intends to double the allocation to step-free access on the Tube ‑‑ which is something I asked you to concentrate on last time we met with the Transport Commissioner, and it now appears to have been done. Do you think that the Labour Party’s obsession with distracting us by talking about interior decoration has something to do with trying to distract us from their candidate’s plans to threaten the...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

James Cleverly AM MP: Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, how much information did you get about the proposals to close the £1.9 billion black hole in the fares box from the Labour Party’s alternative budget proposal?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you very much, Chair. You mentioned there the proposal by Sadiq Khan to freeze the fares over the next four years if he is elected. I was hoping to find some illumination in this debate between our two parties on the fares issue and this so-called £1.9 billion in the Business Plan. The Business Plan was published yesterday, and it is somewhat of a feng shui Business Plan inasmuch as there are quite a lot of holes and wind blowing through it. There is one page of very, very limited information about financial issues over...

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Kemi Badenoch AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that Assembly Member Knight was selectively quoting figures to make a successful mayoralty look like it has not been? I am reminding you that unemployment dropped 7% in your mayoralty and is at one of the lowest points it has been in the last two decades. I completely echo your point about the number of people who have come to this country to look for work. On the one hand they want lots of people to come to the country, but they do not accept that when...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Richard Tracey AM: Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, can I just take your mind back to the last Parliament when the then Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North, Nick de Bois, introduced amendments to toughen up the position of the police in dealing with knife crimes? If I remember rightly, it was opposed by the Liberal Democrats and yet you have a Liberal Democrat Member of this Assembly questioning you now on your record.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Andrew Boff AM: Sir Edward, are you aware of a place called Barking Riverside?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Steve O’Connell AM: Deputy Mayor, you will not be surprised to know that on this side we do welcome these relaxations. These are modest, however. It is interesting that colleagues are getting rather agitated over what we feel is too modest. I, indeed, had a report published last year that called for parking standards to be abolished in outer London and for outer London boroughs to be able to refuse planning permission based on insufficient parking. Clearly this does not go that far. If, indeed, my proposals were on the table I would understand colleagues’ agitation around that. That is...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Stephen Knight AM: Eddie [Sir Edward Lister], you have just said that you do not think that these changes will lead to an increase in the number of cars in outer London. Yet we are told that it will lead to a decrease in air quality and an increase in pollution. On one hand we are being told there will be an impact in terms of providing more car parking spaces leading to more cars, but you are just telling us that it will not. Which is the formal position of the GLA on this?