• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): Thank you, and good morning, Mr Mayor. Can I follow on the theme? I think we just do need this settled. Can I ask you to write to me clarifying that the whole of the GLA family is conforming with your commitment to the London Living Wage? I know that there were some outstanding issues that may have been transferred from the Metropolitan Police Authority over to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and I would welcome your assurance on that.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Mr Mayor, the Latin American Women's Rights Service points out very clearly that the people who depend upon their services find that they are in cleaning and hotel jobs that not only do not pay the London Living Wage but can often pay because of the way it is constructed less than the minimum wage, especially when those people are paid according to the number of rooms they clean rather than an hourly rate which effectively brings them under the minimum wage. Will you make sure that the Greater London Authority (GLA) is particularly conscious when entering into contracts with...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Very pleased to hear you mention hydrogen because of course you may want to remind Members that we do have a zero-emission bus fleet currently running; has been running for two or three years, the RV1 that runs along Tooley Street, which is entirely powered by hydrogen fuel cells and that, I am sure you would agree with me, hydrogen technology presents a very strong prospect for the future given the load-to-power ratio that you identified as a problem with batteries. Would you join me in congratulating Aston Martin who just had a hydrogen car complete the...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): Boris, can you tell us what the miles per gallon are for the New Bus?

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Fiona Twycross (AM): Thank you. Will James Cleverly be attending the consultation meetings?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): Well I am pleased to hear that. Would you agree that it is part of a fire-fighter's community fire safety role to tell the public about the consultation and to encourage the public to participate?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, are you looking forward to reading the Assembly's Police and Crime Committee's response to the Draft Police and Crime Plan?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): Thank you. During the consultation, there was a lot of basic information which wasn't circulated, the sort of stuff that Jo [Joanne McCartney OBE AM] has been asking about. So you left Londoners to actually answer your consultation in the dark but it sounds as if you are in the dark as well. You cannot answer her questions. You do not know --

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Fiona Twycross (AM): Thank you. I think if you applied your views on the actual reforms and our views on the actual reforms, I think it is important to accept that the welfare reforms are already creating a whole series of unintended consequences. These include the movement of families and this is creating pressure on services in the areas to which they are moving. For example, last week we heard reports, which quite clearly you have not heard already. We heard reports that school places are already under pressure in outer London as families move as a direct result of...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Joanne McCartney OBE (AM): My two boroughs are Enfield and Haringey and they are two of the four boroughs in London that are going to be testing the proposed welfare changes from this next month before it gets rolled out across London In Enfield and Haringey poverty is already disproportionately high. Those boroughs have both seen increases in people applying for Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and Housing Benefit. Between March 2011 and November last year, there was a 29% rise in the case of Haringey, and a 21% rise in the case of Enfield. We believe that this is due...