• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Sir Edward, one of the things, which Ealing wanted, was that they wanted North Acton to be excluded from the MDC. They had an understanding ‑ or they felt they had an understanding from you ‑ that it would be excluded. Can you show us why it is that it has not been excluded and why they may have come to this understanding?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Navin Shah AM: Chair, the same issue: Wormwood Scrubs. The campaigners and Wormwood Scrubs Charitable Trust are aware of explanation given by the Mayor and the negotiations you had. We have a letter, the Assembly Members have a letter from yesterday from the Trust, who maintain that they still have grave concerns about the inclusion of the Scrubs in MDC area. Is the message now therefore from you that you are not prepared to budge to the campaigners?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I just wanted to raise the issue of Wormwood Scrubs with you. You helpfully wrote to me yesterday ‑ following quite a lot of emails from alarmed residents of that area who have an interest in the Scrubs ‑ outlining the Mayor’s commitment to protecting it. However, could you just explain to us, if there are no designs on the Scrubs as such, why does it need to be included in the boundary of the MDC?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Chairman, are you calling me now? Thank you. I was not sure. There was so much noise coming from the other end, apart from the jabbering from the Member for London East over there. Mr Mayor, going back to this matter of some sort of reformation and further efficiencies in policing in the UK, which Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe wrote about in The Guardian, you may remember I asked him various questions about this last week before he had written his article. I do not know whether the discussions prompted him to write it. He was actually...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. I want to pick up the issue of New Year’s Eve. Clearly, you have not secured a sponsor for this year, but will you investigate this and guarantee that we will have a sponsor for next year and potentially even link it to your ticketed event to make sure that we do generate some income next New Year’s Eve?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Len Duvall AM: Mr Mayor, one of the key elements of Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe’s [Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis] article was about public risk. Do you agree that if the reforms that he is advocating do not take place, the public would be put at risk by the cuts that have been planned for the MPS in the future by central government?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

On the incredibly sad death of Michael Mason, since putting this question to you I have in fact spoken to senior officers and have asked lots of questions. It does seem that they did what they could and that a prosecution, in spite of 13 witnesses and the driver admitting that she should have seen the cyclist in front of her, in spite of all of that, there will not be any prosecution. It seems that a lot of cyclists are now feeling that you can kill a cyclist and there are no legal consequences. I am just curious about...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Fiona Twycross AM: Can I just talk briefly about the issue of ticket touting? As you have mentioned, tickets have been sold out. I checked this morning and one ticketing site is now selling tickets for over £180 and one has tickets at £212.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

James Cleverly AM: Mr Mayor, it seems to be the fashion today to accuse various people around the Chamber of being liars. I will give Dr Twycross the opportunity to clarify her point. My question to you, Mr Mayor, is whether you noticed that in her initial questioning she said that there was a Conservative proposal to remove 13 appliances and then later on in her questioning she said, “It is on record here. The Conservatives have put forward a motion to review”. Although the words both begin with ‘R’, there is a massive difference between ‘remove’ and ‘review’. In...

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Tom Copley AM: We obviously need to ensure there are enough onward options for rough sleepers when they are leaving hostel services and so I wanted to ask you about a couple of ideas and whether you would consider supporting them in order to increase housing options. Would you consider guaranteeing rent payments for former rough sleepers so that private landlords feel more assured about accepting them as tenants?