• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: Just, Mayor, on the back of what Tom Copley has been saying, you say you want to see London jumbled up. In fact, I know you have even put it very eloquently sometimes in the past. “The genius of this great city”, you say, “is that people on no incomes can live cheek-by-jowl with people on higher incomes”, or something like that. If you think this through, what is it going to mean for London’s mixed and balanced communities?

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

Stephen Knight AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, one of the ways of increasing the supply of new affordable homes is to use the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) own land. When you first became Mayor in 2008, your manifesto made great play of the potential to use GLA-owned land to build homes on. In fact, you promised that you could build 39,000 new homes in London on GLA-owned land. The actual figure that we have seen built on that land since 2008 is only 1,814 as of the end of March this year. Is that not a complete failure to...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Just on that point, Mr Mayor, do you think it would be more effective if cyclists who were caught going through red lights had their bikes impounded immediately so that their mode of transport is removed and they have to then go somewhere to recover it and pay a fine to get their bike back? As a cyclist myself, the most inconvenient thing is to lose your bike in the middle of a journey and to have to then clack off in boots and Lycra to get the Tube. Cyclists are much more likely to think...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Andrew Boff AM: I have some guests in the audience today, some senior residents from Hackney. In the first question they raised with me today when I asked if they had any issues, their issue was the behaviour of some cyclists in Hackney and how they can become very selfish users of the road. Along with your contribution towards increasing the ability of cyclists to get around London, can you re-emphasise time and time again that cyclists, when they get on a bike, are not the only users on the road and they should pay care and consideration to other...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Roger Evans AM: Thank you, Chair. I am pleased you mentioned outer London, Mr Mayor. You will recall from your visits to Redbridge that there is actually a considerable amount of enthusiasm for cycling in that borough. One of the things that would really help that movement to grow would be the extension of Cycle Superhighway 2 from Stratford to Ilford, which might indeed with a branch actually link into the Mini-Holland that is being developed in Waltham Forest as well. I would just like you to reaffirm your support for that project, which we are certainly waiting for with...

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

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, what you have achieved over the last seven years has to be viewed as pretty spectacular, even by the most militant cyclists. Darren Johnson AM: Incisive scrutiny there, Richard! Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I am grateful, Dick. If anything, I was going to say that was a mild understatement, but you all -- Richard Tracey AM: I wonder what you think that your successor is going to be able to do further than you have with cycling. Could I put a request in that far more happens in the outer London boroughs with...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Thanks, yes. Mr Mayor, just two subjects from me. On bicycles, I know you have been quite keen to lobby on modifications to motorcars in terms of emissions and the type of car and all the rest of it. There is quite a lot of technology available now for cars for sensors around the car: blind-spot sensors and object sensors. Airbags are now becoming more mandatory in cars, as are seatbelts. I wonder whether it would be sensible for us to lobby the Government on whether near-side sensors on cars could be specified, particularly in the...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Jenny Jones AM: Thank you for the offer of the briefing from the MPS about the cyclist’s death and I will say yes to that, but I want a bit more than that. This is the second time recently that the MPS has backed off from prosecuting a driver who has actually killed somebody. This particular driver should never have been employed in the first place. The judge actually said, “Heavens know why the lorry owners let you drive that vehicle without checking you had a valid ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Sorry, I could not hear that...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): Just before I look to Members, Mayor, you just talked about that piece of action being taken in Parliament and you talked about ‘we’. Is that a TfL-sponsored bill that you are talking about?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

Tom Copley AM: Thank you, Chairman. Mr Mayor, would you support an incoming Government extending right-to-buy to housing association tenants?