• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, you are forecasting an underspend this year both on the National Affordable Housing Programme and the Affordable Homes Programme of more than £120 million, which is a 42% underspend. Is this incompetence or is there something else going on here?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

I was just going to ask the Mayor if he could, since Richard Tracey raised it, give us that list of gyratory systems that are going to be affected. You fired out a couple - Aldgate and Swiss Cottage - and then did not finish the list.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, if you are feeling too sensitive, you have to be called a hypocrite by Jenny Jones first of all. She calls me a hypocrite because I sit on a body that I do not agree with. This is Jenny Jones who recently took up her seat in the House of Lords.

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

Mr Mayor, I sit here in absolute awe of the number of times you can spend that paltry £25 million that Barclays gave you. Where does it say that Barclays is paying for the third phase? As far as I can see, you have spent that money already. In fact, the whole scheme has cost well over £100 million. Barclays has given you £25 million or £23 million or whatever. You should be calling it the Taxpayers’ Cycle Hire Scheme, not the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme. Where does it say in the contract that the third phase will be paid...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, are you aware that the people of Wandsworth - unlike, clearly, the people of Lambeth whom Valerie Shawcross represents – and, I imagine, Hammersmith and Fulham are very grateful to you for extending the Cycle Hire Scheme into the west of London. In fact, there has been a very good take‑up of the bike hire, particularly during the recent strike on the Tube when all the bikes were cleared from their docking stations and had to be replenished. It is actually a very good move, despite this mealy-mouthed criticism you are hearing from the other side.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, it is not £25 million, is it? It is actually £23 million because you are going to give £2 million back to Barclays in the penalties for the failures of the scheme. We have your statement coming out of your office saying there is a new deal on the table for an extra £25 million coming out of Barclays and you are saying, “No, it is only £25 million and that is it and we have to take it at that”. The heads of terms of agreement in the summer of 2011 knock back everything you just said...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

It is very interesting that you say they will “honour” this £25 million, but back in July 2011 you suggested more money was coming. In fact, you said: “I can announce we are now planning to swathe a huge chunk of the west of our city with our beautiful blue bikes. My thanks go to Barclays for the benevolence they have demonstrated with their latest bestowal of funds and that we can confirm the extension of their sponsorship agreement.” The truth is Barclays did not pay up and actually it is the taxpayers, particularly in those west London boroughs, who...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Firstly, I have been asked if you can just give a brief recap on what you said on the Barclays Cycle Hire sponsorship deal, just for the benefit of Members

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

I think it is important that we come back on this. I think you are at risk of becoming captured by the bureaucracy of TfL. I have a report here, June 2013, “Casualties in Greater London during 2012”, published by TfL, which tells us the number of fatal and seriously injured cyclists between the calendar year 2011 and 2012 rose by 18% from 571 to 671 cyclists killed or seriously injured, and that is a pretty significant increase. That is a matter of record published by TfL. I do not want to quibble; This is a statement of fact but...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 20 November 2013

Mr Mayor, we have already seen this morning the reaction from some Members to your response to a direct question about cyclists wearing headphones, and I am very conscious that a period immediately after a series of terrible incidents like this is often the hardest time to have a dispassionate conversation, quite understandably so. In light of that, and so that we can all make our decisions and policy choices in an environment of hard fact, will you be willing to commission a small discrete piece of statistical research done by a completely independent body, perhaps one of London’s academic...