• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mr Mayor, back in July you were in attendance at the Police and Crime Committee with the Commissioner. I then asked you a question around sanction detections. “Crime is coming down. We have less crime to investigate. A renewed focus locally.”, is what you are trying to tell us around this table. Sanction detections are getting worse. I asked you in July what we should be doing. You agreed with me that it was an issue. What have we done since July in terms of improving sanction detections? Are you bringing people to book, getting results and solving crime?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

It is interesting this idea of a ‘shot in the arm’ for the economy because if you invest in solar, wind and wave energy, you actually get more jobs than if you invest in fracking, which of course has the likelihood of poisoning water supplies and upsetting an awful lot of London’s residents. Would you agree with that?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I am interested to hear that you agreed with Sir Peter Hendy because, as well as a colourful metaphor, as you call it, he made some very clear analytical factual statements. One was that the growth in bus demand has far outstripped the mileage because we have not had the money. Another was that he talked about people on low pay and said, “A future mayor is going to have to make sure they can afford to get to work”. Do you not think, Mr Mayor, that this is actually quite a serious indictment of your treatment of bus passengers...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Generally south London always welcomes investment in transport. Probably for far too long we have not been well served. However, my constituents have been very alarmed around some of the narrative in this consultation.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mr Mayor, I am sure you are aware that this is a chestnut that the city has been chewing on for at least all of my political life in London, which is now, sadly, approaching 20 years, and that nobody has yet come up with a workable solution. However, are you aware that pedestrianisation has been tried in the West End before? Back when I was a councillor at Westminster, on the urging of the businesses in and around Soho to the south of Oxford Street, we put in a pedestrianisation scheme. We had rising bollards and it was closed...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

However, the other thing that I would like to raise - talking about Oxford Street and its traffic - is that of course once Crossrail with its stations at Tottenham Court Road and at Bond Street appears, it will cause further problems with congestion on Oxford Street. This is going to require some very serious consideration of the bus ideas that Victoria Borwick produced and so on. Is this in the consideration of TfL?

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

Mr Mayor, you say they are minor changes. I do not understand what the rush is, then, in the way you have introduced these proposals. Why can there not be consultation? I am neither for nor against what you are trying to do, but there are other options. It seems to me that this is a good time to reflect about this important piece of work in terms of both preparation and, response to various civil contingencies and emergencies we may face. I do not understand why you are not talking to London boroughs about it. I do not understand...

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Mr Mayor, in response to my request, you earlier said that your measures, including the ULEZ, would ensure compliance in London with the European Union (EU) legal limits by 2020. Mr Mayor, that was not quite accurate, was it, because your own ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): For nitrogen dioxide, I said. Stephen Knight AM: Yes, for nitrogen dioxide. Your own document, which I have in front of me here, says, and I quote, roughly, “This takes us two-thirds of the way to compliance with EU legal limits for nitrogen dioxide”. The truth is that the measures you have...

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

Mr Mayor, you will by now have received a joint letter about this very topic signed by the two Assembly Members, Steve O’Connell and me, by the MPs in Merton and in Sutton and indeed by the council leaders for both boroughs, very much promoting the cause of the Tramlink. Of course, it is often referred to as the ‘Croydon Tramlink’ when it then runs to Wimbledon, which is in my constituency. The importance of this project, which has received very great support from the public, is that it would allow massive regeneration of Morden, which of course would put...

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

Sutton really has the case together here and the support, as has been mentioned, actually is of the specific route. This is not just a general concept, “Do you like the idea of having a tram?” It is actually the specific route. You have said today that you will look at progressing it. What I would like is for you to commit. You mentioned earlier your volcanic energy. Will you put your volcanic energy behind this and actually give us a date today when you think we could see the tram come to Sutton?