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

Unfashionable though it may be for a reconstructed male to be an advocate for women's issues, I have been living and breathing this issue in Croydon for some years now through Croydon Council and the rape crisis centre Chief Executive, Yvonne Trainer - a shining advocate of that work - has kept that piece of work going on with some support from the Council, living hand to mouth, for some years now, with no support in the last eight years from the previous Mayor and no lobbying of the sort I have just heard from the other side, so I...

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

I think the point of division here is on the timing because if you say you are going to act immediately we rather think that means you are going to act immediately, so it is that bit of the promise. I do not think we disbelieve the bit of your promise to say you are going to do it; it is more about the timing -- Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair): It did not say over four years. Jenny Jones (AM): Thank you. It did not say over four years; it said immediately and it then needed to be immediately. You...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Further, Mr Mayor, would you accept that the Royal Parks Agency has behaved disgracefully over Regents Park and the sports facilities there, when it lost its planning application for inappropriate flood lighting and it has now closed down the well-used community asset tennis club that was used by many residents of Westminster and Camden and it is now lying semi-derelict where there was once a thriving tennis club. Its complete lack of consultation with local residents is something that can no longer be tolerated. Certainly I - and I think many colleagues of all parties - would support far more...

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

Thank you. One of the problems with the Tube upgrade is, as Tim O'Toole [Former Managing Director, London Underground] mentioned before he left, that Crossrail will be going on at the same time and there is going to be a tension, particularly in times of recession, in actually finding all the funding. Are you personally so committed to Crossrail that you think the Tube upgrades are less important?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I should declare an interest as a daily Jubilee Line victim but, nevertheless, in -- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Beneficiary I think is the word you are looking for! Kit Malthouse (AM): Well hopefully in years to come. I know you appreciate the distress that has been caused up and down the Jubilee Line given the extra closures, not least by those businesses who operate largely at the weekend who will be disproportionately affected, not least the O2 and other venues on the line. One of the critical things though about weekend closures is the state in which the...

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

As a part of the work which is going on in relation to the Underground, Wanstead Station is due to start its upgrade next week and the station will be closed and residents are expected to walk to Snaresbrook Station to use that. It is about 15 minutes away. Not a problem for able-bodied people but it is a problem for some of the older residents and there are concerns from the Wanstead Society about possible overcrowding at Snaresbrook Station as a result of this arrangement. Will you meet residents and review what is happening if the proposals put in...

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

I think I remember last year, Mayor Boris, that I brought this up about dangerous dogs during the questions about the riots in Notting Hill where these horrendous animals were used as weapons - almost parallel now with knife crime - and yet somehow I was laughed out of the room. So, in that case, what statement can you make that you will actually - brilliant question from Victoria [Borwick] - follow this through and act upon these horrendous animals?

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

Mr Mayor, you will be aware that there is quite a bit of other expertise in this matter apart from the Metropolitan Police Service. The likes of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and Battersea Dogs Home and, indeed - one of my boroughs - Wandsworth, where it has the Parks Police and several great experts. Are you talking to all them to make sure that we get the best measures and the lowest costs in dealing with all this?

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

Has Lord Adonis expressed an opinion on legislation to restrict or control the industrial relations situation on London Underground?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I am glad, Mr Mayor, that you have indicated that this is by far a very complex issue and therefore not simply a matter of vaccination. Would you not agree therefore that there is a need for promoting a greater level of awareness and education on this very complex matter otherwise there is a danger that a section of our diverse community and their children may be stereotyped as carriers of TB? This is a very, very serious danger.