• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: Boris, if you look around the city there is a lot of wonderful, iconic construction work going on around the place. New buildings are going up everywhere. I am surprised, travelling around the centre of town, how many of those developers seems to have found it necessary to extend beyond the curtilage of the development and appropriate parts of the road and indeed parts of the pavement, if we go on to Val’s [Shawcross CBE AM] later question about walking. All of these add to congestion as well.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, what do you think of a council that is planning to scrap its Meals on Wheels service and replace it with, among other options, referring people to foodbanks instead?

• Question by: Kemi Badenoch
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Kemi Badenoch AM: Mr Mayor, I only wanted to echo Assembly Member Arnold’s calls for a knife amnesty and I was very pleased to hear your response. I am just reiterating that it is a cross‑party issue. It is something that we are all concerned about and I know that you are concerned about it as well. It does have the advantage of not imposing onerous burdens or regulations on all the schools or all the licensing across London; it is something that would be fairly easy and cost-effective to do.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, I absolutely welcome your words with regard to some of the initiatives that are taken with regard to trying to tackle knife crime. They tend to be about politicians wanting to be seen as though they are trying to do something. There are parts of London where youth clubs cannot get funding unless they push under the noses of young people posters about how they should not carry knives. They bring to the centre of the debate, “What is the best way for me as a young person to oppose authority? What they are telling...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Tony Arbour AM (Deputy Chairman in the Chair): Assembly Member Arnold? Jennette Arnold OBE AM: Chair, thank you for bringing me in. Mr Mayor, we have touched on this briefly but I did not have time to really put a full call to you. You talked earlier about the mixture of solutions. Can I just say that I welcome the support that you have given to the Ben Kinsella Trust and the work that it does in terms of the education package it delivers across London? Members will remember that Ben was tragically murdered in the week of his 16th...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Following on from the points that Joanne [McCartney AM] was making, at times like this it is really important to make sure that we protect places of worship, which may become focuses and targets, particularly mosques and synagogues, and to make sure that those who use those places of worship are reassured as to their personal safety. It is also important that we confront islamophobia and antisemitism, which can be sometimes provoked by these things. Indeed, on Monday, a swastika was daubed very close to the synagogue in Highgate on one of the walls there. Can you...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, given the atrocities in Paris, if necessary, will you review your council tax plans and look to freeze or even increase council tax to keep at least 30,000 police and our PCSOs on our streets, as requested by the Commissioner?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, I applaud the various elements of the announcement you have made about future TfL fares across London. Interestingly enough, on about the same day that you made your announcement, the Labour candidate for the mayoralty, Sadiq Khan ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Who? Richard Tracey AM: ‑‑ talked about freezing all fares for four years. You have obviously gone through the figures. How could he possibly make such a promise?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, I want, if I can, to return to issues of policing, counterterrorism and security. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Sure. Joanne McCartney AM: The events in Paris bring home the importance of having an effective police and security service response. Over the last couple of years, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has talked about the step-change in counterterrorism as a result of events in Syria in particular. You have talked about perhaps the police needing to review and enhance tactics as a result of Paris, particularly with regards to the range of weaponry used...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: We obviously have to make sensible use of resources in the face of cuts. Some of the new technology that could come online is really interesting and will offer exciting possibilities, but do you agree with the Londoner who contacted me yesterday to say that £283,000 for a website rebuild is bordering on scandalous?