• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

I hope your friends from the United Arab Emirates are happy with your answer to that last question. The reason I interjected was because it was such a stonkingly stupid question actually, Chair. The fares under your Mayoralty have gone up over 40%, have they not? I know life involves hard choices. There is a very hard choice facing my constituents, which is your proposal to remove the ticket office from Whitechapel as one of your savings. Do you accept that there is a tough balanced decision there, that taking away ticket office facilities at one of the busiest stations...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Val Shawcross and the Labour group are purporting to speak for Londoners on the subject of fares and they are opposing fare increases in every form. At the last election, as you have just said, fares were a central part of that election and you said the fares would need to go up to fund the infrastructure overhaul of the Tube, which again you have correctly said is the largest in London's history. They put to the public that they would fund a 7% fare cut, which would be in by last October. Just for the record you did win...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Just for the record, Mr Mayor, has Val [Shawcross] or anybody in the Labour Party ever come beating on your door suggesting significant cost savings so that fares could be kept down?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

I am sure you are aware, Mr Mayor, throughout the period of consultation the Labour group, and others, have been pushing the line that the reason for savings having to be made in the fire brigade is to fund a 1 p a day, in their words, council tax preset cuts from you. They claim that they could cover that using the preset freeze grants, so not going with the preset freeze or preset cut. Of course that would only raise £9.5 million a year, yet the fire brigade needs to save in excess of £40 million every year from...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Notwithstanding the broken promises referred to by Andrew Dismore, why are you ignoring the thousands of Londoners who responded to the consultation demanding that the London Fire Brigade keep their fire stations open and keep the fire engines? They do not agree that you are making London safer with these cuts.

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, I would like us to revisit the issue about response times. At the June Mayor's Question Time, you stated that it is perfectly true that your overall objective of the Fifth London Safety Plan is to bring a wider area of the city within the minimum response times. Can I put it to you: do you believe that the revised version, which will be put to the authority tomorrow by the Commissioner, for debate, will achieve those objectives?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, are you proud of the fact that London got the best funding settlement from DCLG of any fire and rescue service in the country?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Richard Tracey (AM): I find this sort of scepticism from the other side really pretty disheartening, Mr Mayor. How many jobs do you think Crossrail and Crossrail 2 might provide for London?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, do you think it is unfortunate that the impression might be left with people in the debate about undercover police officers that the operation of undercover is completely unsupervised by anybody and it might be worth emphasising therefore to the public that since 2000 we have had the Office of the Surveillance Commissioners who do inspect on a regular basis all approvals and operations that are taken on an undercover basis, and indeed all intrusive police operations that require surveillance of some type? Given that office is staffed entirely by former judges, all of whom are independent, do...

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

Recommendations on authority levels, the fact that the authority levels were too low, on training, on definitions, of actually putting together a definition of what a domestic extremist is. Tom Winsor reviewed that this year in June, just a month ago, and found that the Metropolitan Police Service had not put these recommendations in place. You have not told the Metropolitan Police Service to do that, have you?