• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Stephen Knight (AM): Clearly, the London Fire Authority on an all-party basis has actually agreed tens of millions of pounds of efficiency savings over the last few years, so the previous point about no savings being agreed by anybody I do not think is very fair. Will you accept that actually it has been the position of the majority of the Assembly for months now that the budget that you have allocated to the Fire Authority was not sufficient because it would lead to unacceptable cuts to frontline fire services? That is our position and we have put forward a...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Valerie Shawcross CBE (AM): Mr Mayor, I make no apology as a Fire Authority member for trying to find legal and proper ways to block your irresponsible closure of fire stations. I believe that that was what I was elected to do, but you can look in your manifestos and not find any reference at all to your plans to close fire stations. Just the opposite. You said you would not do this and you have no mandate to do it. Let me refresh your memory, Mr Mayor, because you are clearly having memory problems this morning. There used to...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): You talked about your mandate, Mr Mayor. On 25 January 2012, just before the election which returned you, you said, 'Under this Mayor there will be absolutely no reductions in fire cover'. Your mandate comes from the people of London. You have lied to the people of London by implementing these cuts.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

James Cleverly (AM): Mr Mayor, in December 2012 when you issued your original budget guidance to functional bodies, did you receive from the Labour Group any proposals for savings in the London Fire Brigade at that point?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

James Cleverly (AM): Mr Mayor, I do not expect you necessarily to recall, but in 2009, 2010 I asked a series of questions about the rise of TB cases in London. The recommendation I made at the time was that you lobby Government, because there is a threshold, and for the life of me I cannot remember exactly what it is, but I think it is 40 cases per 1,000. There is a threshold whereby if children are travelling to countries with a TB threshold above that level that they are inoculated. Yet, there are parts of London, boroughs in...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, would you acknowledge that the London Living Wage campaign is not just about the level of wages that are paid in the city but about tempting to re-establish the moral obligation between employer and employed and, therefore, making it compulsory in any way, shape or form would destroy the creation of that sense of obligation between the two?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): A few weeks ago, Boris, I was in a well-known restaurant chain having breakfast before going to my constituency work and I heard the manager say to one of the waiters, 'It is rather quiet this morning, why don't you do away, take the morning off and come back at lunchtime?' Most people who are told to take the morning off would think it is quite a good idea, but the waiter was rather reluctant to do so. He was reluctant to do so, not just because he was on bad wages, but because he was on...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): The Mayor will remember that I raised this issue with him during the last Mayor's Question Time and drew his attention to the national campaign that is being led by John Sentamu [Archbishop of York].

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 11 September 2013

Steve O'Connell (AM): I want to reinforce that. I appreciate very much the investment that you are making in the larger infrastructure schemes, but the LIP funding, I would like to point out, is often applicable to the smaller schemes that many of our resident across Croydon and Sutton and elsewhere. It is those small schemes that I would ask you to continue to support and to repeat, in essence, that you will be continuing to fund the boroughs at least at the existing level, but also to maintain that freedom for the boroughs to be able to use the...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): Mr Mayor, I am very concerned that in any new road scheme, or any changes to road schemes that provision for cyclists should be adequate. I know you know that we have had four deaths in the last two weeks on our roads, two pedestrians, two cyclists, a three-year-old boy, a 20-year-old woman, two men of 54 and 91. It is crucial that we take care of the vulnerable people on our roads. Will this scheme provide full, full, protection for vulnerable road users?