• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Mr Mayor, whilst having regard to the statistics that Assembly Member Arnold put forward about the unemployment rate amongst the black communities in London, I would urge you to look at the experience of the London Development Agency (LDA) in its unsuccessful attempts to target, specifically, certain ethnic groups at a certain age in their development and I would urge you to concentrate on doing everything that you are able to do to improve the academic success rates of people within that particular group.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

I am glad you have said that because obviously there are several aspects. As you say, we have talked about river restoration before, which is an important component. There is also the fact that the Thames Barrier has been closed 40 times already this year and it was always imagined it would only ever open 50 times a year, so it has already opened almost that many times. Have you met with the Environment Agency or anybody to discuss whether or not we need to bring forward plans for a review of whether we need a new Barrier, whether we...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Mr Mayor, do you welcome the chaos of the previous Labour council in Harrow? It resulted in them spending so much time fighting each other that they omitted to fight for the residents of Harrow and it is now only that Councillor Hall has taken over with the Conservative administration that they do not have that distraction anymore and are spending all their time fighting for what the residents of Harrow want.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Mr Mayor, it would be chary of me to lose the chance to raise the issue of South Kensington step-free access with you again under this particular issue. I am sure you will be aware that Harrow on the Hill gets about just under 9 million entries and exits a year, whereas South Kensington gets just over 30 million - approximately the same number of passengers passing through its doors as Gatwick Airport - and yet remains not step-free despite the proximity to a number of tourist attractions, which are currently inaccessible to those in wheelchairs or those who are...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Yes, Mr Mayor, I can see here and I can understand the fan brigade for Councillor Hall from yourselves as well as your colleagues

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Mr Mayor, according to Environment Agency figures, there are something like 14,000 homes with no flood cover in London. Are you prepared to take up the Prime Minister’s offer of money being no problem for these homes to be protected?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Do you not find it odd, Mr Mayor, that leading members of the Government who devised the terms of reference for the Davies Commission - Nick Clegg [Deputy Prime Minister], Vince Cable [Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills] and Ed Davey [Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] - failed to have removed from the options, which the Davies Commission set up, the possible expansion of Heathrow? Do you not find that odd?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

Unsurprisingly I speak to support Roger’s comments in that I would support, very much, removal of the existing limits around outer London. I am not sure - and remain to be persuaded - of the benefits to those areas in outer London, but in view of the fact that you are not able to remove that outer London surrounding barrier that you consider reviewing the boundaries because there are certain areas where it really does not make a great deal of sense.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2014

I am a big fan of the ULEZ because it actually targets the area of London where the problem is, and will help to reduce the pollution around those areas which are worse affected.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 January 2014

Richard Tracey AM: Yes, just one slightly peripheral question. I notice that Dennis Hone has produced a press release or he is quoted in a press release about various facilities in the Park and the potential great success of some of them, particularly including the Velodrome. Some of the features of the Park are, of course, in the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. If it is all going to be such a great success, could you move some persuasion to Lee Valley to stop charging the rest of the boroughs of London and taking a subsidy and perhaps they could...