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

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, I am glad you paid tribute to the excellent work of Steve O'Connell, which is I think of very great assistance to the boroughs in formulating their planning policies, because you may have heard that in Southwark local residents have saved a pub by specifically identifying it as a community asset. Indeed, in my own borough of Wandsworth, Jane Ellison, the MP for Battersea, is seeking to save two - the Castle pub and the Eagle pub, where developers clearly want to buy up these places and simply build housing on them.

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Gareth Bacon (AM): My colleague, Dick Tracey, made the case for Crossrail to be extended into the West to Reading. Could I just reinforce the case for the East?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Tony Arbour (AM): Yes. I am glad you mentioned South West London, Mr Mayor. Do you realise that if Crossrail 2, option B, is followed through, you will have the opportunity to right an historic wrong and that wrong is that the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames only has access to one railway line which goes into Waterloo. We have no Underground. We are pretty well cut off from the rest of London. It is true, many of my constituents think that is a good thing, but nevertheless, Crossrail 2, by going through Kingston and extending to the delights of Chessington...

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

Jenny Jones (AM): I do not know if you know, Mr Mayor, but in fact there were other boroughs whose rape reporting leapt up when Sapphire was centralised. For example, Sutton, their rape reporting went up 70% and in Haringey it was something like 59%. So I am glad to hear --

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

Kit Malthouse (AM): I just wanted to ask you about what you said regarding two crime types that were moving in the wrong direction. One was sexual violence and domestic violence.

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

Richard Tracey (AM): Yes, Mr Mayor. I believe you are going to be at the mega rally. Is that correct, on 27 April?

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

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, given that political campaigning and political advertisements are banned on London public transport, do you think it is appropriate for Heathrow to be advertising so as to try to influence the Davies' [Airport] Commission on the Tube at the moment?

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

Mr Mayor, you have a Clean Air Fund, haven't you?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Mr Mayor, the leaders of central London councils, City, Westminster and Camden, did write to you at the beginning of your term. In particular they were concerned about PM2.5.

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

Kit Malthouse (AM): Yes. Mr Mayor, when you provide Caroline Pidgeon with the data about these 330 junctions, could you also include data as to how many accidents there have been at those junctions involving blind people?