• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Sir Howard, I wanted to ask a little further about night flights. When we last met when you appeared in front of the Assembly, you revealed to me, as somebody who lives under the flight path, this surprising idea that no flights land at Heathrow between 6.00am and 6.20am and that there was a moratorium on that. Since then, Heathrow rather helpfully produces on its website the actual landing times of flights and, of course, there are dozens and dozens of flights that land between 6.00am and 6.20am every single morning, including this morning. Would you...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Len Duvall AM: Thank you for your earlier clarification around where air quality fits into the hierarchy of mitigation issues, but could you just clarify in terms of your report and your findings? Is it that pollution levels must come down around Heathrow before it is even built or could you envisage it being built and then taking pollution levels? Others would argue that some of your findings around air quality, comparisons and issues are slightly unrealistic. Give us the background of that.

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Tom Copley AM: Sir Howard, good morning. We are very supportive of the idea of an independent aviation noise authority. In December 2013, your interim report called on the Government to establish such a body. When has it said it will do so?

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

Richard Tracey AM: Are you aware that the operation of the Night Tube actually coincides with us hosting the Rugby World Cup? There will be a number of people in London who will very much welcome some extra transport facilities.

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

Andrew Dismore AM: Thank you, Chair. Can you tell me why there was no consultation with residents whose homes back on to the Northern line about the additional noise problems that emanate overnight?

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

Andrew Boff AM: Mr Mayor, do you think the confidentiality of viability assessments should come to an end?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Victoria Borwick AM MP: Thank you. Mr Mayor, just to take us back briefly to that other point, I am sure you were as delighted as I was that this Government undertook to honour Simon Stevens’ [Chief Executive Officer, NHS England] request for £8 billion in funding and to ring-fence the NHS funding. Just to put any clarification on the previous comments that were made, we have had an assurance that the NHS funding would continue and that Simon Stevens’ request will be met in full.

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): We are going to get back to that subject because there is a question on the order paper. The next question is going to be recorded in the name of Assembly Member Bacon but I understand that Assembly Member Boff is asking it. Andrew Boff AM (on behalf of Gareth Bacon AM): Thank you for your indulgence, Chair. Just imagine this delivered in a Bexley accent and you will be fine. The Government is now accepting bids for enterprise zones. Will the Mayor make the case for more enterprise zones in the capital?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Mr Mayor, it was good that you started off this morning talking about public health issues in London. My question is related to the Chancellor’s Budget statement in which he announced £13 billion of departmental savings, of which £200 million will be cut from local authorities and their ability to deliver a public health service. He has cut £200 million from public health budgets. Do you think this cut will help to deliver your Health Inequalities Strategy or hinder it?

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

Andrew Boff AM: Do you get a sense, Mr Mayor, that the Labour Party is having problems navigating around the great big tank that has been parked on its lawn? Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I really have to say that we have heard this morning from the Labour Party a quiet insurrection against its own leader, who is being ruthlessly stabbed in the back by Members of the London Assembly who refused to endorse or support her. They refuse to support Harriet Harman in her analysis of the changes to the benefit regime. It is quite amazing. Look...