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

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, as a parent and indeed a grandparent, I am particularly sympathetic to this question. I wonder. Do you think that we are doing enough to promote starter homes for young people? Are we investigating sufficiently pop-up homes, which I understand is one potential solution, or the excellent Wandsworth Council scheme of Hidden Homes? Indeed, are you convinced that enough of the local authorities in London are refurbishing some of their old housing stock in order that it is prepared?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Roger Evans AM: This is an interesting debate, Mr Mayor. How do you reconcile the call for methods of production of energy that are effectively more expensive with the need to keep prices down to prevent fuel poverty and to protect jobs in heavy industry?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Murad Qureshi AM: Mr Mayor, do you accept the existence of ‘carbon bubbles’, as Mark Carney of the Bank of England has highlighted recently in his speech, as being ‘unburnable’?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Jenny Jones AM: Mr Mayor, I have been listening to your answers and I am actually quite concerned - I want to take you back to Paris and the talks - that you do not really get the urgency of climate change. You have talked about your ambitious projects, but actually I would say they are quite small-scale when you look at the size of the problem. Mark Carney, who is Governor of the Bank of England, does not agree with your dinosaur colleagues. Can I call them ‘dinosaurs’? Is that OK? I think it is all right, is it...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Roger Evans AM: My constituency, Havering and Redbridge, is next door to the areas that Andrew [Andrew Boff AM] talked about. We did have some concerns that we did not win our Mini-Holland bid in Redbridge, but we are feeling a little bit of relief when we look across at what is happening in Walthamstow and the concerns of the residents there. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): You will feel differently when it is finished. Roger Evans AM: That was actually the question I was going to ask you, Mr Mayor. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): When it...

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

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, this morning, there was multiparty support for the petition that was alluded to by Caroline Pidgeon earlier. Do you not think it is important in your schemes for cycling in London to bring the London public on board with your schemes?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: I heard what you said, Mayor, about the permitted development rights and the relaxation of them and on housing. Of course, the result of this policy is that these homes will not be the right type of homes in the right place. It lets developers off the hook and none of them will be affordable. To get to the main point, you seem to be - you are - pleased that you have an extra three years on the exemptions, as you said, for parts of London ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Almost four years...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: We learn - mainly from the international press, I have to say - that the Royal Albert Dock is due to become a third financial centre for London for primarily Asian, particularly Chinese, business. I would like to ask you if you could give us an update on how that is going. Maybe there has been a recent announcement but it looked as though the financing was in difficulty.

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: This is going to be for Sir Edward and also Gordon. One of L&P’s key priorities going forward is to help London firms gain more export contracts through joined-up trade, investment activities and overseas trade missions. What added value does L&P bring to securing exports in what is already a crowded field with UKTI and the City [of London] Corporation performing similar roles? Where do you add value when there is already a crowded field there?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Tony Arbour AM (Deputy Chairman in the Chair): Assembly Member Arnold? Jennette Arnold OBE AM Yes, thank you, Deputy Chairman. My question is to both of our guests. I think we can all agree that having high-quality infrastructure - be that a transport network, housing or power systems - are vitally important in attracting trade and investment to London. Have any stakeholders raised concerns with L&P regarding broadband connectivity in London? I raise this question as London’s infrastructure has been called a national disgrace. Indeed, the Federation of Small Businesses published a report in August 2014 - I do not...