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

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, do you regret that the last Labour Government encouraged people to buy diesel cars? It was in fact Mr Ed Miliband, who was the Energy Secretary. Do you think that that has had an effect on the pollution levels in London?

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

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. At a previous MQT, you said you would look into the proposal from a Hampstead resident, Ms Learmond-Criqui - who is the chair of the local ward panel and coincidentally also the chair of the local Conservative Party - for a crowdfunded police buy-one-get-one-free (BOGOF) deal for Hampstead, but apparently no formal proposal has been made by her or any other community group. Do you find it a bit surprising ‑‑

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

Kemi Badenoch AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, is it not right that the Home Office has said that sanction detection is not the best way to measure police performance and that the numbers we get should be interpreted with care? Rates have fallen because of more accurate recording of crime and a crime could be considered solved even when a detection is not made. Is this not just scaremongering by the opposition Members?

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

James Cleverly AM MP: Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, do you share my incredulity that a whole load of issues like maternity pay, paid leave and that kind of thing, which are absolutely not under threat if we leave the EU, are being highlighted as examples of why we should stay, yet other more practical things like direct support for the British steel industry and zero-rating of tampons and other women’s sanitary products, which would be on the agenda if we left the EU, seem to be strangely missing from the list of things brought up by the opposition?

• 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...