• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Navin Shah AM: Mr Mayor, I want to raise issues about disabilities access, particularly related to closure of lifts. Between 2013 and 2014 LU lift closures went up by a staggering 50%. Between January and August this year lifts were closed 27 times due to a lack of trained and licensed staff. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Is this at one particular station or just across the network? Navin Shah AM: No, this is across London. You had 50% of lifts not being accessible during 2013 and 2014 and between January and August you had 27 incidents when due...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you. To get back to the strategic as opposed to the particular, Mr Mayor, it is really good to have this debate this morning. We need to reinforce the fact that over the last few years the transition - particularly of neighbourhood policing, and despite some concerns about the changes in the numbers of the teams - has been a success. Crime has gone down in the neighbourhoods and we have seen extra officers in the neighbourhoods. This is with the transition from one-two-three to one-and-one. I would speak to support some of the comments earlier...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Residents in Hampstead, where there has been a number of particularly vicious and terrifying robberies recently, want to crowdsource three extra police officers for their area on the basis of a buy-one-get-one-free deal. Do you agree with the Camden Borough Commander that it would not set a good precedent and the MPS should not entertain it or do you agree with Zac Goldsmith [Member of Parliament for Richmond Park and Mayoral candidate], who says he has no objection to the idea?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. We have heard outlined this morning the potential dire budget cuts that the MPS is going to have to make and savings of £800 million or potentially more over the next few years. The Commissioner has said this could mean 8,000 police officers - that is one in four - police off our streets. We also know that the MPS is considering cutting the 1,000 PCSOs in our neighbourhoods. Given that we have already seen a dramatic decrease in PCSOs and we see a police force potentially stretched, what assurances can you give Londoners...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

James Cleverly AM MP: Madam Chair, thank you. The phrase keeps being used that 250,000 people are coming off the electoral register. Can you just confirm that the figure that is being bandied about is a reference to 250,000 registrations, a number of whom may be either fraudulent registrations or in many cases duplicate registrations, and that particularly with London having a large student population, many of those students will be registered in their family homes outside of London where they are registered and historically are sometimes also registered at the institutions of higher education where they are studying? The...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, do you remember that when you first became Mayor ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I do. It was a glorious day. Richard Tracey AM: ‑‑ I introduced you to the excellent Wandsworth Council Hidden Homes scheme? Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I do. The ‘hobbit homes’. Richard Tracey AM: You visited one. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Yes, we did that together. Yes, that is right. Richard Tracey AM: Is that not something that should be promoted to the Government further?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, you were talking about various measures that could be taken, perhaps, to cut down on pollution apart from the measures to do with the vehicles themselves. Could I ask about perhaps various devices in planning? In other words, in my constituency in Putney High Street we have a particular problem with pollution.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, I am very pleased about the new recruits to the MPS and about the makeup of BAME recruits rising. However, you will be aware that the MPS is considering getting rid of all Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) as one of the options it is going to be looking at shortly and 34% of PCSOs are made up of BAME officers. We have both said that this is often a first step to getting recruits into the MPS to be fully warranted officers. With regards to PCSOs, who are so more representative of London, if...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Mr Mayor, on this point about right-to-buy and private landlords, is it the case - I am sure you would remember - that it was a Conservative government that gave relatively wealthy people the right to buy when it introduced the leasehold format, to allow people to effectively compel landlords to sell the freehold of leasehold properties. This is a principle which is well-known in London. Presumably you would agree that the same rights that are granted to those relatively wealthy people should be granted effectively to social housing tenants. Effectively social housing tenants have a...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: One of the key issues, of course, as well in terms of noise is station announcements at open stations like Earls Court, Sloane Square and some of the stations in Fulham. Are you going to have a ban on platform announcements during the night?