• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chairman. The GLA Conservative group, Mr Mayor, has been campaigning for some time to encourage TfL to generate more commercial income in order to bear down on fares and to provide other benefits to fare-payers. In the last few weeks, there have been two sponsorship schemes announced. One is the Not On the High Street scheme for sponsoring the baby badges that pregnant women wear on the transport system. The other is the MBNA sponsorship of the Tube map. Both combined will bring many hundreds of thousands of pounds of commercial income to TfL and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Mr Chairman. Mr Mayor, does my memory serve me right that it was a politician called Ed Miliband [Leader of the Opposition and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] who encouraged us all to buy diesel cars a few years ago?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

James Cleverly AM: Actually, Mr Mayor, you went quite some way to pre‑empting my question. Obviously both the Southeastern franchise and the Bakerloo extension particularly affect my constituents, and I know that there was concern from MPs in northwest Kent that the service provided to their constituents would be reduced by a future Mayor potentially if they took control of the Southeastern franchise. Is there anything that you could do to hard code protections, for those commuters just outside London?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

John Biggs AM: This is very, very topical, and Mr Boff does not seem to understand that Waltham Forest is next door to Stratford. The question I have is: are you proud of the Olympic legacy or do you agree with Andrew Boff that hundreds of millions have been wasted on Olympic legacy projects? This came up in The Times in the New Year.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Andrew Dismore AM: Mr Mayor, all over London we have seen your police propaganda posters stuck on phone boxes and so on. The total cost of this was a staggering £562,884. Do you not think it would have done more for public confidence in the police if that more than £500,000 had been spent on extra police officers rather than propaganda posters?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Mayor, we had a very long and protracted debate over the London Safety Plan 5 (LSP5) in which the proposal to close certain fire stations was mooted. During that debate, the Labour Group on the Fire Authority, led by Fiona Twycross, opposed the sale of any fire stations, as you have mentioned. They did it on the basis of claiming that London would be less safe if we did that. That was a respectable argument to put. It was not one that I agreed with and it was not one that the Commissioner agreed with and...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Darren Johnson AM: Thank you. Yes. You are still going to be Mayor for another year, I take it? Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): I am; perhaps longer. Darren Johnson AM: I would just find it helpful if you could spell out what your plans are as Mayor to keep lobbying on this issue of the borrowing cap.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

Andrew Boff AM: When you find whoever it is in the Conservative Party who has been saying what John Biggs says, could you also make a point of opposing those people in the Labour Party who abhor voluntary effort and hate voluntary organisations?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 January 2015

John Biggs AM: I wanted to be helpful, as I always am, in helping to highlight to you an area which would improve your knowledge base, and that would be for you to visit a food bank. You have declined to do it so far. If I could ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): You heard in my answer to Fiona [Twycross AM] that I intend to get to our new shop as soon as I can. John Biggs AM: You are talking about a particular supermarket. What you will find if you visit a food bank is that it...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Andrew Boff AM: Sir Edward, survey after survey shows that most of Londoners would prefer to live in street-level homes rather than high-rise developments. With the 350,000 children being brought up in overcrowded conditions it is clear that one of the aims for any MDC should be to alleviate some of those problems and provide more family homes. Can you confirm that the objectives of the proposed MDC will have a commitment to building street-level family homes?