• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

On CS2, there is the space on the highway to provide for segregation and I think that that would make sense. I am particularly struck by the comment by the coroner which was uttered by others, including myself, separately that CS2 with its design creates a false sense of safety or security for cyclists who see the blue markings as an indication that they have been thought about and that they have the right of way when, in some circumstances, they do not and the capacity on the highway itself just is not there to make it safe for them...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

On the Bow Roundabout down to Aldgate. I think that is what we want to see and there are two other particularly dangerous junctions both referred to in the coroner’s report at the Bow Roundabout and at Aldgate. Public assurance requires you to give some sort of undertaking.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Just in reaction to what you said, are you aware that it is the porous borders and unenforced regulations concerning immigration that have made Britain a burgeoning destination for trafficked people, as I revealed recently in a report that I produced, Shadow City, which highlighted the problem of trafficked people in the United Kingdom?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Did you know that whilst you were swanning around doing your photo opportunities in Beijing with George Osborne, at home the UK Border Agency (UKBA) was harassing Chinese businesses in Chinatown? There have been 11 big raids since July. That is almost one a week and more often than not they do not find anyone illegal. It is not intelligence-led. These are fishing expeditions. It has reached the stage that yesterday afternoon all the shops and businesses in Chinatown, 200 or more, closed for two hours in protest because they were very angry at the disruptive and discriminatory fishing raids...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Mr Mayor, can I say I am putting my question in on behalf of the pupils of Sullivan Primary School, who are here today, this morning? Because the plans that have been proposed, that is to bulldoze down their school and put them in with another school, so that their plot of land can be handed over to a free school, is just not on, when you consider one of the critical things that we have in this area, as well as across London, is a shortage of primary schools. What I am asking on their behalf is: do you...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Would that mean that you would then be in support of a good school with satisfactory features being bulldozed to create a free school?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Thank you, Mr Mayor, for recognising that there is a crisis which we are getting now an every season crisis in the A&E department. Have you been given any reassurances through the Health Board that there are plans in place to deal with the situation for these winter months?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

Have you let the Government know that their proposals are ludicrous though? Currently, London accounts for 24% of national funding for victims.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

We all want to reduce reoffending, but if they do not have to have a seat at the table in our local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and there is no obligation to force them to do so, is that concern that you have as well?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 23 October 2013

I was pleased to hear that you are aware of the issue around rent levels in the private rented sector. It is clearly a very big issue. I just wanted to raise a point that during the first quarter of 2013 monthly rents in London were almost 12% higher than they were the year before in the private rented sector. In Wandsworth they went up by over 15%, in Southwark they went up over 12.5% and in Tower Hamlets they went up over 16.5% and these rises do not show any sign of slowing down and they are contributing to...