• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

You have described it as crazy, inappropriate and crass. Where does greed come into that in the sense that you are saying it is not dishonest? Does greed come into that description of this individual?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Thank you, Chair. Can I agree with you on one point: that this does not, on the face of it, appear to be a deliberate attempt to defraud the taxpayer in that the repayments of personal expenditure were made regularly if not totally properly.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I find it interesting that so many people are commenting on an LDA Board meeting that they were not at. I will declare an interest; I was at that particular LDA Board meeting. As I recall, the discussion was whether the money would be best spent on academies or best spent addressing other systemic failures of the Government with regard to its education and training policies of young people. I will do a John Biggs: 'But you don't need to answer that, I will move on'.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I was not going to say anything but then you spoke, Mr Mayor! Obviously I am trying to persuade you that the best way of achieving your objective of reducing or halving overcrowding by 2016 is that that objective will not be well met by building so many one and two bedroom properties. Still within your criteria the majority of properties will be one and two bedroom flats. Bearing in mind that the vast bulk of overcrowding in the housing stock in London is in one and two bedroom flats it seems daft to me that the majority of properties...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

In any debate around numbers of London boroughs and this and that, clearly as most London boroughs are Conservative anyway and there will be more so next May it is likely there will be a disproportionate amount of Conservative boroughs! Mr Mayor, your aspiration to work with boroughs is well founded and I would, of course, quote Croydon as a borough that is embracing your targets and in the way that you are working with them. Would you not agree, Mr Mayor, that the innovation of a single conversation - which is a piece of work which before has not...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I am wondering if you can see that there might be risks in the approach that you take to the boroughs on strategic issues like housing targets? Greens support devolution to the lowest appropriate authority but you are the strategic element of the whole thing. You are smiling at me as if you know what I am going to say --

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

Yes. Following your exchange with Nicky Gavron - just for the completeness of the record - can you tell us which Labour boroughs have failed to agree your housing targets so far?

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

On a similar subject, Mr Mayor, do you feel, as your predecessor did, that Bob Crow [General Secretary, RMT] is an appropriate person to be on the Board of Transport for London?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Part of supplying a really good Tube service is all about paying fair wages. You have said in the past that it is not your responsibility; that it is private companies and so on. Actually Tube Lines, for example, is not currently paying a Living Wage - that you have just increased - to its cleaners, has said it will not negotiate except with the RMT but it will negotiate if Transport for London is there. So will you just say to Transport for London that it should be there and negotiate a London Living Wage for those cleaners?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Mr Mayor, do you share my amazement that the Labour Group opposite seem to be trying to shift the burden of blame on to you for a strike which was called by a small cabal of the RMT leadership, not supported by the other transport unions and, indeed, not even supported by the majority of RMT members?