• 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?

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

Roger Evans AM: Jenny [Jenny Jones AM] made quite a good point, actually, about the noise that residents living near the lines will experience. I know I have had complaints and concerns raised by people in Woodford and South Woodford who live alongside the Central line where it is on an embankment and they are going to be subject to some noise overnight. Can you make sure that Transport for London (TfL) actually addresses those complaints and reassures them that it is not going to be a life-changing, sleep-depriving thing?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, I understand, of course, that there has to be reasonable discussion before the Night Tube is introduced, but you of course realise that it is a very popular concept. Even more so it would have been if it had now been in place for the Rugby World Cup because we are hearing that there will be a large number of transport problems as a result. The other thing is that apparently, according to a recent survey, only 16% of the population of London is actually supportive of these Tube strikes. Can I ask that you...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Just briefly, Chairman and Mr Mayor, we were not going to come in on this. I could not have faulted anything that our colleague Dick Tracey [Richard Tracey AM] said on the topic. We have, in this chamber, made many of the same criticisms. Would you not agree that playing silly party political games, as Andrew [Andrew Boff AM] has just done then, trying to misrepresent the detailed scrutiny that this Labour Group has made of these and criticisms of this proposal, does no credit to the issue? What we want is some sensible, detailed cross‑party...

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

Andrew Boff AM: I note, Mr Mayor, that all the parties in the Assembly except the Labour Party oppose Heathrow expansion unequivocally. Can I just ask you, Mr Mayor, to just ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): You say except the Labour Party? Andrew Boff AM: Except the Labour Party, and that of course is on record. Tom Copley AM: Not true. Andrew Boff AM: Can you just confirm for me, Mr Mayor, that the opposition to Heathrow expansion is not enough and that any opposition that does not provide a coherent plan for a replacement hub means that...

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

Roger Evans AM: I recently met constituents from Wanstead who wanted me to pass on their thanks for your decision to block the expansion of London City Airport. Can you please provide them some reassurance that you will continue to oppose this scheme? It would be very damaging for the environment.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. I would like to ask you about taxis. [Interruption from public gallery] Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Do you accept, Mr Mayor, that until there are enough zero-emission-capable taxis on the market and alongside that enough rapid-charging points in central London, it will be difficult for the taxi trade to switch away from the diesel vehicles?