• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Steve O'Connell (AM): Chair, if we can return to the first subject. I welcome the Mayor's commitment to Crossrail 2 and on this side we very much support certainly bringing in that resource to south London. You remember an early critique around the original Crossrail, there was some discomfort with the part funding from the south and the benefits, and that debate has moved on. You will hear later of our support very much to bring Tramlink extensions to Sutton and to Crystal Palace and you will know that we have done an enormous amount to provide that. I am...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

I just want to draw assurance really that all the stations on Crossrail 2 will be disabled accessible.

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Andrew Dismore (AM): Do you agree, Boris, that any private sector funding involvement must comply with the law?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Speaking of rough sleeping and speaking of empty homes, I know where there are going to be plenty of homes, luxury homes which are just going to sit empty and are going to do nothing to help provide affordable homes or deal with the rough sleeping problem. In order to clear the site for this redevelopment

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Can I just follow up from that exchange and can I say that as, I think, the only nurse sitting around this horseshoe and someone who delivered care during the awful [Margaret Thatcher [Former British Prime Minister] years, where I personally as a ward sister had to take sheets and wash them to put on the bed because we had no supplies in our hospital. The idea that we are sitting here denying the changes that have taken place in our health service from 1997 to 2010 is absolutely unbelievable. Nearly 100,000 more nurses, nearly 50,000 more doctors and I...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Are you aware, Mr Mayor, that under your predecessor the Conservative Group on this Assembly supported his move to be the Strategic Health Authority for London? That was one of the rare occasions on which this side of the Chamber actually supported an increase in the Mayor's power and, therefore, to suggest somehow or another it is the current Government which is opposed to giving you this power that, of course, is what had happened under the previous administration.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, as the Chair of the London Health Improvement Board you have a duty to improve the health of Londoners. To this end, do you agree that plain cigarette packaging, as used in Australia, could be a key tool to tackling smoking and smoking-related disease amongst younger age groups? Where do you stand on the issue?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, how did the top-down, centralised regime under the previous Government work out for the quality of hospital care?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Is it not true, Mr Mayor, that you have just written to Jeremy Hunt MP [Secretary of State for Health] to ask him again to reconsider the decision about not giving you funding for pan-London, and you are continuing to work with him on the projects that you are doing as part of the Health Board, in order to try to remain your strategic voice in this role?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, in helping to understand the potential of branding and sponsorship of London stations, will you bypass the not-invented-here attitude of TfL?