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

Mr Mayor, obviously you will share my disappointment that having secured an exemption for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea just over 12 months ago, it has now been proposed to be removed. I am pleased to hear you are going to be lobbying for its retention. Would you agree with me, though, that the Government’s current approach to planning rules and regulations is creating a huge amount of uncertainty, not just for local authorities but also for the development community, and there may in fact be a break on development as developers and others wait for policy to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Mr Mayor, can I raise the issue of sectarian tensions in London from the Middle East conflicts between Sunni and Shia? I welcome the comments you made to Andrew Boff AM that you do not want to see international disputes come to the streets of London. In the past 15 months I have seen a number of incidents which concern me. The first was raised by Lebanese businesses on the Edgware Road about Anjem Choudary’s [cleric] mob inciting clearly religious hatred aimed at Shias. It was dealt with as a public order offence but an opportunity was missed to deal...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

I am interested in exploring another aspect of this, which is about the community cohesion consequences of what is happening and whether you feel we are doing enough, giving the right signals and stating very clearly the expectations we have of people and also whether, with the limited public funds available, we are doing enough with, for example, the PREVENT [one of the elements of CONTEST, the Government's counter-terrorism strategy] agenda, which has been massively downscaled.

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

Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that one of the dangers of fetishising our relationship with Europe is that it blinds us to the opportunities of economic relationships with the rest of the world? My mother was from Sierra Leone and I have family from West Africa who are shocked at Britain’s unwillingness to engage with Africa as an economically growing continent. We made that mistake to a large extent with India, we are making that mistake with China and we are making that mistake with Latin America. I would urge you to ignore the pronouncements from the party...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Mr Mayor, you may recall that in June I asked you about the rise in violent crime in particular outer London boroughs. You said that you had noticed an increase and that you had asked questions and the MPS had told you it was about domestic violence and an increase in reporting. Actually, we have done some further work on this. If you look at the five highest boroughs, for example, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Enfield, Haringey and Hillingdon ‑‑ Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): This is violence with injury, yes? Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, there have been significant rises in...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Seeing your cycle helmet there, Boris, it reminds me that you have still not honoured your promise from two years ago to cycle around Stirling Corner. Perhaps you will let us know when you are going to do that. Perhaps you can also let us know when we are finally going to get a decision on the 24-hour signal experiment, which has been delayed and delayed and delayed in terms of actually getting an outcome. The latest I heard it was going to be October, but that is about a year after we were originally promised the outcome.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Can I just move to one suggestion you have made recently in the public domain: the car scrappage scheme for diesel? Today, it is interesting, actually, we have cabbies out on a go-slow because they feel that your move to scrap older taxis has backfired.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, it has been mentioned a few times already that you are going to the Commons this afternoon. Can you just tell us which elements of your failed policies you are going to be trumpeting as your legacy to Londoners on air pollution? Is it going to be your dust suppressants to cover up the problem in the first place, the weakening of the LEZ and the ULEZ or your misleading advice to Londoners during the smog incident at the beginning of the year?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, I wanted to ask you some more questions about Crossrail 2, specifically about Battersea Power Station. Do you support the proposal for a Crossrail 2 station at Battersea Power Station?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, do you think it is actually important in your pursuit of the Estuary Airport that everybody should be reminded it is not your scheme but is actually Foster’s scheme? I am afraid your scheme we are not talking about much anymore, but it is the Foster’s scheme ‑‑