• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: Tony [Tony Arbour AM] has asked the question that is next on the order paper as well, which is mine, and so if I can go straight into my supplementary, it would be helpful. Mr Mayor, your Deputy Mayor has previously said that he thought the Home Secretary is not giving sufficient to London’s policing. You said that you did get a little bit more, but the Commissioner [Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis] actually has said, “We were pleased that we received some help, but we did ask for far more”. He...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Thank you. I just wanted to return to the procurement of these electric buses. Am I right in thinking that the first ones that arrive will be entirely manufactured in China?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Madam. Mr Mayor, of course we have also been moving forward with the hydrogen buses and taxis, I believe, for some time with our colleague, Kit Malthouse [Kit Malthouse AM MP], very much promoting that. We have surely already a number of electric courier vans operating around London.

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I admire very much Len’s [Len Duvall AM] very elegant attempts to disguise the policy U-turn of the Labour Party. I am pleased very much that my Labour comrades in Croydon are still very much supporting Gatwick and are opposing Heathrow. Mr Mayor, this is a good debate, but we must acknowledge that after Davies’ [Sir Howard Davies, Chair, Airports Commission] decision, anything around Heathrow is going to collapse into a quicksand of conditions, objections and challenges. It is just not going to happen and will be pushed back many...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Roger Evans AM: Thank you, Chair. That was a proper point of information that we just had there. Boris, can I take this opportunity on behalf of my constituents in Havering and Redbridge to thank you for your opposition to the expansion of London City Airport? Can I seek your assurance that you will continue to be opposed to the expansion of the airport ‑‑

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, I do understand the fine judgement there is when you have calls for a ban during peak hours but I do think it is fair to make yourself familiar with the statistics. I am indebted to the London Cycling Campaign for giving me the stats for this. This is data compiled over the last five years. In the two hours between 7.00am and 9.00am, 38% of the fatalities have occurred between those two hours. I do not want to be sensationalist about this. I just want us to look at the data and look at...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Murad Qureshi AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, can I just come back to the discussion at the House of Commons on air quality. I was actually very impressed by how informed our London MPs are on the issue and I was particularly impressed by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) Minister, Rory Stewart OBE MP, responding to all those points, particularly from London MPs. Really, should you have not been there to respond to many of those points made by London MPs, particularly when the choice was between attending a prerecord at LBC or being accountable...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, on this question of Heathrow that you mentioned in your report, apart from whatever Zac Goldsmith’s views on Heathrow and pollution and so on might be, you may have noticed yesterday that there was a little bit of confusion in the Labour ranks when Mr Sadiq Khan, MP for Tooting - who is also aspiring to be the Mayor of London - seemed to have changed his mind. He is now against Heathrow expansion, but back in 2008 and 2009 he apparently supported the expansion of Heathrow. Do you think Londoners might be a bit...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Stephen Knight AM: Thank you, Mr Mayor. In terms of the debate on 9 June on air quality in the House of Commons, a debate at which I noticed you were not present and I am sure you had good reasons why you could not be there ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I am afraid I was unable to be there, Stephen. I had pressing engagements elsewhere, but one of the things I have noticed about ‑‑ Stephen Knight AM: I believe you were giving an LBC prerecord interview and so it cannot have been that pressing. Anyway...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Thank you for your response in regard to my request about these fake mobile phone towers or ‘stingrays’, as they are known colloquially. Sky News undertook an investigation and said that it found 20 in London that appeared to be intercepting Londoner’s phone calls before they reached the official mobile phone towers, which obviously gives great concerns for Londoner’s security of their personal information. There are two main issues with this. Firstly, I understand that they can be bought for about £1,000 and so they are relatively cheap. I understand that criminals can...