• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Jenny Jones (AM): You keep hiding behind the Fire Commissioner, Ron Dobson, saying it is his plan. But you are the one who is starving him of funds to pay for your measly Council Tax reduction, so are you here today taking personal responsibility for these cutbacks.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): Good morning, Mr Mayor. We missed you at the Islington consultation regarding the closure of Clerkenwell Station and it is a shame as you would have been able to say whether you think it is acceptable for there to be winners and losers arising from your LSP5, and those are the words of the Commissioner and the room went silent when this was said. So I then, next day, found out who were going to be the winners. Mr Mayor, do you think it is acceptable that you and your family and your neighbours are going...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

Navin Shah (AM): Mr Mayor, rather than ducking and diving, which is what you done so far, will you answer a simple direct question, which I am going to put it to you? At public meetings right across London, residents have rejected closure of fire stations, removal of fire engines, and deletion of fire-fighter posts, with one voice, total absolute unanimity. I have not met a single resident, and I attended more than half of those public meetings, who has said that there is anything, absolutely anything good in these plans. Are you therefore now prepared to listen to Londoners...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 19 June 2013

James Cleverly (AM): I also want to put on record my personal thanks to the London Fire Brigade for the work that they have done in driving down fires and death by fires, and I completely understand, I have visited many fire stations, I have spoken to many fire-fighters, and I completely understand the passion that they have for their service and for Londoners, and I know that there is complete honesty in their passion around this issue. I am not quite so convinced however in the integrity of some of the calls made by other Members. I will give...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, much as I am a loyal Tory, do you not think that this policy is daft and expensive and divisive?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, while I applaud my colleagues' endeavours over cautions and looking at Metropolitan Police Service data over the last few years. Would you also agree with me that while it is dangerous to talk in absolute numbers, it is often dangerous to talk in average percentages and that actually there may be characteristics of London which mean that an average percentage sanction detection rate is also deceptive? For instance, Mr Mayor, if you looked at homicide as a crime, I think you would find that the Metropolitan Police Service's sanction detection rate is well up into...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Len Duvall (AM): Mr Mayor, it is even worse than that and I am grateful for Tony Arbour and Conservative colleagues bringing this question to the table. It is even worse than that and I will just go back to Track My Crime. What will happen is, when you go and track your crime, 44% of people are saying there is no crime being investigated because it has been screened out. There is another side of the argument and that is screening out crime being carried out by the Metropolitan Police Service. So, on 5 May, the Sunday Times -...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Gareth Bacon (AM): Mr Mayor, the consultation is important but there is an argument that has been done in an overkill way. I attended one in Newham. Newham is one of the boroughs where there is actually going to be a fire station closure. Only one member of the public turned up who asked three or four questions, one of which was why we had not laid on refreshments for the general public.

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Fiona Twycross (AM): Will you commit to attending the remaining consultation meetings to hear the concerns of Londoners who are seeing their fire service cut?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, I have total confidence in the London Fire Commissioner [Ron Dobson] and his officers and indeed it seems to me what they are doing is very much in line with what Sir Ken Knight, a former Commissioner, was suggesting for fire services in the rest of the country. Can I just bring you back to this matter of these public meetings? Apparently they are being held at the insistence of the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green members of LFEPA. We had one in Wandsworth a few weeks ago, which I and various Conservatives attended, and...