• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): Are you aware, Mr Mayor, that many of the things that you have been advocating for putting more officers on the front line through sharing police facilities are already taking place? Can I draw your attention, or indeed refresh your memory of the fact, that Kingston and Richmond are going to have a joint custody centre which is being built at Kingston? Can I refresh your memory about the purpose built police premises which have been built in Richmond which now provide bases for Safer Neighbourhoods Teams which mean that there is step-free access for the disabled...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Navin Shah (AM): Mr Mayor, you just heard from one of our residents in the audience. What he said, he was not jumping on a bandwagon. He was expressing the real concerns of hundreds of thousands of affected residents who want to maintain local services for local residents. Also, you cannot disassociate yourself from the NHS because, let me remind you, you do have a role to play through the London Health Improvement Board where you have a direct responsibility. You also have a strategy on health inequalities. Given the situation, let me put a direct question to you. Do...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Roger Evans (AM): We have similar problems in north east London with proposals to close accident and emergency and maternity units at King George Hospital. I think we have been helped because we have taken a cross-party approach to opposing this rather than trying to politicise it as people have in some other parts of London. I myself gave evidence against it and my evidence was based first of all on the expected population growth that we are looking at for north east London, which sadly was not taken into account. Secondly, also by problems represented by poor public transport...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Victoria Borwick (AM): Mr Mayor, thank you for giving your positive comment about the work of the LAS. I also would want to draw your attention to the work of the Air Ambulance Service. Obviously, the structure is that the Ambulance Service is commissioned to working with the NHS and therefore is not, as you said yourself, within your remit, but what we need to ensure is that we provide the Ambulance Service with the right medics who are travelling around London saving people's lives and based at accident hotspots. Obviously, it is not your role to dictate where the...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

James Cleverly (AM): Thank you Chair. Mr Mayor, under your Single Property Unit you have been quite proactive at looking at creative ways of using the public sector real estate more efficiently, both financially and operationally. Obviously, the LAS as you say does not fall under your core remit but will you continue to investigate opportunities where they can share real estate with elements of the blue light services that do fall under your remit to help them maintain those, as you say, world class response times.

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Gareth Bacon (AM): Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, there are a number of issues that have been raised here that I think do require clarification. First of all could you confirm to me that Andrew Dismore was in fact a Labour Member of Parliament between 1997 and 2010?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): Thank you. May I refresh your memory, Mayor? [Holds up list] This is the list that you have seen which we are not allowed to show to the public.

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Fiona Twycross (AM): Have you seen a list of the fire stations under threat?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you, Chair. Yesterday afternoon, Mr Mayor, at an exciting meeting of the Budget Monitoring Sub-Committee the Finance Director from Transport for London was telling us about the savings they are trying to make in London Underground and the difficulties that he faces. He was very concerned at a 1% cut in fares would be the equivalent of them needing to find £340 million in savings over the next ten years. By my calculation a 7% cut in fares would mean they would have to find a £2,380 million saving in the next ten years. How on...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Mr Mayor, are you aware of just how popular the new bus is with the public? Indeed, I understand it turns heads when it passes in the same way Concorde used to when it flew over London.