• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Sian Berry AM: I just wanted to go back to the original question, really. I do think that the campaign from the Conservatives was an attempt to divide London. I was part of it every day. I saw the strategy evolve as we went through the campaign. It was an attempt to be divisive. I agree with the point that you made, Mr Mayor, about the potential for putting people off politics. I was concerned throughout the campaign that it might put people off voting in the election at all. We do need to remind ourselves that this election had...

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Kemi Badenoch AM: Thank you, Chair. I am so pleased that this question was asked and by who better than Assembly Member Dismore, whose friendly, consensual and collegiate style of politics is so well regarded. He has just as many friends in the Labour Party as he does in the Conservative Party. I welcome the comments that you made, Mr Mayor. It is one of those very difficult things. I speak as a woman from an ethnic minority background. There does seem to be a narrative where some people think there are saints and sinners. There are issues on all...

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Peter Whittle AM: Mr Mayor, on the point of air pollution, what is very characteristic at the moment on our streets in London is the extraordinary and apparently unlimited level of private hire vehicles (PHVs), which are adding massively to pollution. It is something like one in ten cars now. This surely is something where one could act, as it were, immediately. How do you propose to deal with what amounts to something like 700 new PHV licences being given out a week?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you very much, Mr Chairman. Mr Mayor, you listed in response to Assembly Member Arnold’s question a number of workplace benefits that have come about as a result of our membership of the EU. How many of those benefits could not have been created by a British government elected by the British people and accountable to the British people?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, this is a scheme I am familiar with; it is in my constituency. This is a success story. Twelve years ago when this regeneration process started, 80% of the people who were living there did not want to move back in again. Now that the regeneration has been taking place, 80% of the people who want to move in have moved in and who want to stay there can stay there. I hope you will congratulate Ealing Council, which has been innovative in its approach. It has regenerated this estate, which was rundown. It...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 25 May 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: Congratulations, Mr Mayor. Do you remember during the election campaign visiting West Hendon Estate in Conservative Barnet and speaking to residents there? They are getting an even rawer deal than was even suggested in this question in terms of rehousing of tenants, particularly protected tenants, and also leaseholders. The same is about to happen in Grahame Park in Conservative Barnet as well. Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): This is a bit tenuous, Assembly Member Dismore. Can you relate it more closely to the question? Andrew Dismore AM: Going back to your constraints, Chairman, if you look at the...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, in your update you talked about Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) finances and spending money on gangs work. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Yes. Joanne McCartney AM: Given that the MPS’s finances are under pressure, are you aware of how much money has been lost with the - as we understand - failure of one of your first outsourcing projects, the CommandPoint command-and-control system? We understand from the exclusive story in the Evening Standard today that your Deputy Mayor has cancelled or terminated that contract and is probably going to be suing the provider, Northrop...

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

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. When Sir Edward issued his edict to require your senior staff, including your Deputy Mayors, to “either advocate the Mayor’s position or otherwise not openly contradict it”, do you seriously expect us all to believe that you did not know anything at all about it?

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

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, in what state do you think the ambulance response times, NHS staffing and A&E waiting times would be if we had have elected a Labour Government, which pledged considerably less funds in order to support the NHS?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Roger Evans AM: Thank you, Chair. That was an interesting exchange. Mr Mayor, I have recently had to go through processes in my local health service because I have had a chest infection that has rambled on for ages, and the treatment I have had ‑‑