• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Good morning Mr Mayor. Do you not think it extraordinary and unwise not to mention the resignation of Tim O'Toole [Managing Director, London Underground] this morning in your update? Can I put on record the deep appreciation of the Labour Group - and I hope the [Assembly's] Transport Committee - of the work of Tim O'Toole in grappling with the dilapidation of the Underground and also doing such a tremendous job of professional leadership during the July [2005] bombings in London. I think all Londoners appreciated how well London Underground staff, led by Tim O'Toole, performed that day. Mayor, does...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, can I associate myself with your remarks on both Tim O'Toole and also on the East London Line extension, which is of course very much welcomed in my constituency in Clapham around Clapham Junction but also across the whole of south London. What I particularly want to ask you about now, though, on railway matters, is the round table discussion you promised with the Association of Train Operating Companies because still the question mark looms over all of us of exactly when Oyster Pay As You Go is going to be applied to all of...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I wanted to pick up something the Mayor had mentioned. It is nothing to do with the personal issues but, in terms of Tim O'Toole's departure, can you confirm that this is nothing to do with the publication of the report by the National Audit Office which is due out shortly into the handling of the financial crisis at Metronet?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

When I was a councillor we were persuaded by officers to spend many hundreds of thousands of pounds, if not millions of pounds, on textured paving throughout Westminster to cater to the concerns of the blind and deaf blind lobby. However, on asking the question as to how many blind and deaf blind people had been run over, killed or involved in road traffic accidents in the previous five years the answer came back as zero, we decided, on the evidence, that maybe our rush to put in textured paving was not actually merited. I would encourage you and ask...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

You will be aware I was in Cannes last week when you made the announcement of the spaces. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Exactly. Steve O'Connell (AM): As someone who had a public meeting in Coulsdon in the south of Croydon only last week when the local residents were very unhappy that they had never had any sight of their promised open space over eight years, it will be good for them to realise that -- I believe there is a basic misunderstanding again on the other side as to how you are going to bring this to bear. It...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Yes. Can I give support to your suggestion of involving the NHS, not least because of the large amounts of NHS estate there are in London as well and the opportunity they have to do work on their own land. Ken Livingstone's 100 Public Spaces programme was started in 2002 and ran for six years. Can you tell us how many spaces they completed in that time?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Mr Mayor, what precautions are you going to take to protect the blind and the deaf blind who have already made representation about their concerns about shared space and rushing it through? It is very nice around this room. I am sure we can all see the visual joys that shared space must bring but I think it is also a duty upon us, particularly here, to think about those who do not have those advantages and who have already made representations about their concerns. Certainly I would not like to be part of an administration who pushes ahead too...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Would you accept, Mr Mayor, that the Open Spaces programme is not just a capital investment; it needs to have a revenue element as well? I hope that we do not reproduce the situation of the first public space that Ken Livingstone launched which was Gillett Square in Hackney in the Chair's constituency -- Jennette Arnold (Chair): A very nice space too. Andrew Boff (AM): A very lovely space only through the efforts and the desperate efforts of Hackney Co-operative Developments. Otherwise it would be completely windswept and useless and a very, very nice venue for the local drunks to...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Mr Mayor, the question talks about long term health costs to Londoners. How do you think this compares to the long term health costs of the Labour Government's support for the third runway at Heathrow which is already amongst the most polluted parts of the capital?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Mr Mayor, I am quite sure that no one in this Chamber or outside would argue that there is not a well established link between poverty and ill health. I applaud your decision to delay the implementation of a Low Emission Zone and thus prevent potentially thousands of employees and owners of small businesses from losing their livelihoods and being plunged into poverty. What I would ask is that you continue to look holistically at the effect on Londoners' health and not just listen to the single issue cries from people who, I suspect, feel rather bruised that one of...