• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Indeed, Mr Mayor, a lot of the overall confusion about enforcement and everything is being caused by the proliferation of these apps for securing a car. Can I ask you point blank what the situation is over the legal case and the verification of what Uber [taxi hire mobile phone app] is up to in London? Clearly, it is quite a popular means of getting a car amongst many people, but we really need to be clear.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: A straightforward question, Mr Mayor. Please, a straightforward answer. How many police officers did we have in Barnet in May 2010?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, it is well recognised that Network Rail is not really very good at co-ordinating. That was particularly shown at Christmastime at King’s Cross. The problems are pretty well-rooted. I recollect that the Secretary of State [for Transport], Patrick McLoughlin, did talk about appointing a special Department for Transport director to Network Rail to make sure and to oversee their co-ordination. Have you heard what progress is being made with that?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: On that same point, it is well argued and it is unanswerable, the case for one coherent transport system under mayoral control. Picking up on Val and James’s point, I wrote last week to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), in essence demanding that it considers proper compensation - and I think there is agreement around this horseshoe - and not the compensation that you can automatically get for 30 minutes late, which is the business-as-usual compensation. We have a structural problem here. My letter to Charles Horton [Chief Executive Officer, GTR] was demanding on behalf of my constituents...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 25 March 2015

James Cleverly AM: Mr Mayor, we have had quite an extensive discussion about the conversations you have had about what is going wrong at London Bridge at the moment. Obviously, my constituents in the London boroughs of Bexley and Bromley traditionally came into platforms 1 to 6 at London Bridge and they have now been constrained to platforms 1 to 3. Can you give me an assurance - or can you help me give my constituents an assurance - that the lessons that hopefully will be learned with the changes made at the platforms that have already been refurbished will...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Could you tell me, Mr Mayor, how much you provided for spending on street homelessness in your budget?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Tony Arbour AM: I wonder, Mr Mayor, whether you would agree with me that one of the things that brings politicians into disrepute is the failure to keep election promises. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): I do. Tony Arbour AM: Under those circumstances, do you think it is a bit of a cheek that those most promiscuous of election-promise breakers, the Liberal Democrats, have come to you this morning, aided and abetted by various members of the Labour Party, asking you to break your pledge, which hitherto you have kept, to reduce the GLA precept? Do you agree with me...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Steve O’Connell AM: Mr Mayor, I would echo Richard Tracey’s comments around the off-peak cap and would advise you in future to perhaps avoid these pitfalls in working with TfL. I thank you, however, for reacting very quickly, though I would urge you to ask TfL to perhaps do a fresh push on the Oyster card. There are still a very small number of people who are left in a worse position. They will benefit, clearly, from using the Oyster Card. Moving on, first of all I would like to welcome very much the renewal of the Outer London Fund...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: We are glad that you have made a partial backtrack on the way to help relieve off-peak passengers from a problem that you created. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Off-peak part-time workers. Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Yes, for part-time workers. Mr Mayor, you do need to accept that this is just one of the many ways in which you did make the entire transport system unaffordable for many Londoners. I just want to talk to you about a particular case study. A young graduate called Kim gave us her story. She is one of two million...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 February 2015

Jenny Jones AM: Mr Mayor, you suggested last week that children could be bussed from Norfolk to breathe our alpine air, but that does not quite fit with the illegal levels of air pollution that surround many of our schools caused primarily by TfL’s dirty buses. You promised some time ago that by 2012 you would have budgeted to have clean buses for London, hybrid or better. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): We have. Jenny Jones AM: You have not. Where is it in your budget that says you are going to have clean buses so that our air is...