• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Thank you, Chair. Can I, on behalf of my Group, congratulate our colleague, Jennette Arnold, on her recognition and also Sir Peter Rogers on his. It is indeed the LDA that I want to raise with you, Mr Mayor, because I was concerned to hear about the latest financial discrepancies there have been. I thought that the LDA was pretty much decontaminated from the situation in which you inherited it from its predecessor. Can you assure us now that systems are in place to make sure that the budget is balanced and that monies are accounted for in that organisation?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I would like to return to the shared streets issue because although the scheme looks very attractive - we have all seen the visuals - it is obviously important that all users need to be considered. I know that your colleague, Munira Mirza [Director of Policy for Arts, Culture and Creative Industries], is also aware of the issue of parking for coaches for schools visits, for educational visits, in order to improve access to the sites - these are, after all, iconic museums - and the visuals that we have seen tend to show almost bare streets. I think it...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Mr Mayor, is not our responsibility the prevention of accidents in the first place, not just simply reducing them and that, whilst I understand Kit's [Malthouse] financial approach to the issue a socio-cost analysis does not really help us to live up to our moral obligations?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I was just going to come in on the same issue if I may because, as you say, many of us do support the principle of shared space schemes, but we all have to understand the real difficulties that any scheme that relies on a social negotiation between the driver and the public is going to cause fears and dangers and potential problems - Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): That is right. Valerie Shawcross (AM): -- for people with a variety of disabilities, not just visual impairment. I wonder, Mr Mayor, whether or not you would be willing to meet...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Mr Mayor, you quite rightly mentioned that we have to prepare ourselves for when the spike in house prices returns and suddenly this funding hiatus is over. Can we use this opportunity do you think, Mr Mayor, to review some of the housing schemes in which the Greater London Authority (GLA) is a partner? I am thinking here specifically of Barrier Park East where the local need - and you have said about the London need for housing - is not really matched by the plans that the London Development Agency (LDA) has put in place for that particular development.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Apropos your intergalactic following, we do understand you have a very loyal base on Planet Zog but welcome back to London. I think we would endorse the comments made by Mike Tuffrey on housing, that you do need to have a big stick. I want to raise another big stick issue with you which is Crossrail. We stood together at the launch of Crossrail, on the station at Canary Wharf. The question is, is your party committed to supporting Crossrail? I think there is a consensus across the parties in this Assembly we should build it. There is a risk...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Can you confirm, Mr Mayor, that nobody in your office approved the Garden Party list?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

During your visit to Seoul you mentioned that you wanted to have the main Olympic Stadium with the roof completely changed so that it covered the entire stadium.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

In relation to your Housing Strategy published this morning and which you mentioned there, you say on page one that you are making excellent progress towards the target of 50,000 affordable houses. Careful reading, by the time you get to page 155, reveals actually that you are less than halfway in terms of getting firm promises from the boroughs. So my question really is, acknowledging the fact that this is hugely difficult, these are only promises to use the best endeavours, these are not numbers of houses built, these are promises from boroughs, are you and the boroughs serious about...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Navin Shah (AM): In your Affordable Housing Strategy there is an interesting and welcome section on designing better homes. What is worrying is one of the aspects dealing with design of homes is you are not requiring private developers to adopt the design standards. Why is that the case?