• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Jenny Jones AM: Mr Mayor, I wondered if you have had a chance to look at my proposal for a solar photovoltaic delivery unit for London, because it would do a lot of things that you are talking about. It is investment, and you talk about sustainability. It would save the GLA group some money because, at the moment, it is eight years’ payback on photovoltaics and it is falling. It would save schools money and something like 90% of the schools in London are missing out. Of course it would be, I think, a nice little memorial for you...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Fiona Twycross AM: I want to talk a bit more on your failure for a group that you mentioned several times in your opening remarks but are singularly failing to support, which is the poorest and most vulnerable Londoners. Because of your failure to address poverty in London effectively, particularly in-work poverty, I have a bit of a problem taking your budget seriously because the truth is it is more illusion and spin from the Mayor who talks a good talk and writes a good press release but the fact is that you are still overseeing an annual increase in...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Stephen Knight AM: Mr Mayor, you previously described the shortage of affordable housing in our city as “the gravest crisis facing our city”, and -- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Yes, and I think I said that this morning too. Stephen Knight AM: I think we would all agree with that and, of course, if something is the gravest crisis then it requires us to find bold solutions to that crisis, and I think you have previously said that would London needs is a stream of revenue against which it can borrow to start addressing the shortage of affordable housing...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Yes, thank you very much, Chairman. Mr Mayor, in your opening remarks you talked about housing delivery being vital and also various programmes designed to attract more small builders into the market. The Conservatives agree with you, I am sure you are relieved to know. Your administration has also indicated a desire to make better use of public land. With that in mind, I am sure you are familiar with the excellent report that my colleague Steve O’Connell wrote and sent to you some time ago, which is about the creation of a self‑build fund and this...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Commissioner, I was quite surprised to read in The Times yesterday some comments you had made about not being able to track people on iPhones. It was particularly relating to Uber, where they can track somebody who calls up for a cab. It is rather strange given what we see on American television and police that you in the MPS do not seem to be able to track anybody who has called in on a phone where it might be very, very helpful if they are in some danger.

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

While we are talking about the 21st century and taking things forward, I would like to bring your attention to the residents of Knightsbridge, particularly, in central London, who are suffering from the people who drive amazing supercars that make the residents’ lives hell. I do not know, Mr Mayor, if you would like to join with me in raising this concern with the Commissioner. Some of these cars are, of course, without insurance. They get shipped in at quite significant cost. They drive around the streets at 2 o’clock and 3 o’clock in the morning, racing through the streets...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Commissioner, during the last year there were 1,000 incidences when patients were transferred to the hospital using police cars. Do you see this as an increasing trend?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

The review of rape services that you alluded to earlier, Commissioner, highlighted the importance of ISVAs to counselling those victims of rape and sexual assault. Are you committed to seeing an increase in the number of ISVAs?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Mayor and comes back to TfL property strategy, which Richard Tracey and the Commissioner’s exchange alluded to quite extensively. It showed that the Commissioner had some understanding of the costs and benefits of managing MOPAC’s property assets. I want to know, Mr Mayor. To what extent are you conscious of the benefits of outright sales now or incurring an income from some of the assets the MPS and MOPAC still has in the property portfolio.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Sir Bernard, I welcome the comments that were reported about your views on fitness standards within the MPS and policing in general. As someone who has to take an annual fitness test for the Reserve Forces twice a year, which I still find quite amusing, I welcome those. Allied to that and linked to overall policing numbers and policing output from those numbers, the number of officers on long-term sick and restricted duties is still significant. Will you also apply the attitude that you have taken around fitness standards to those officers who - perhaps through no fault of their...