• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

I want to pick up on some of the points that Darren [Johnson] has been making, Mr Mayor. You claim that this is going to be the cleanest, greenest bus, but on a number of air quality measures your bus is 56% more polluting than a regular Volvo diesel bus that we see on the streets of London. So is your bus really going to be the greenest bus that this city ever sees?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Kit Malthouse (AM): Would you agree Mr Mayor that the one thing that would please Westfield, above all else, would be if there were fewer buses going to Oxford Street?

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

Thank you Chair, I would just like to say obviously that we had the cross-party group that considered this and it is still ongoing in the sense that we continue to review the problem. So I am delighted that you have agreed to continue to talk to the NWEC. I think, frankly, until there is a fundamental review of some of the bus routes in a broader aspect rather than just those that go down Oxford Street, I think it is going to be quite difficult to continue to reduce, but I do support as we all do, the need...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Gareth Bacon (AM): Thank you, Mr Chairman. Of course there is no dictatorial remit at LFEPA where information is kept from Members, as Mr Dismore well knows, but that does not fit the scaremongering narrative that he is trying to put out before London at the moment. The plain fact of the matter is, Mr Mayor, that Mr Dismore asked all of these questions last week and got the same answers from the Chairman of the Fire Authority, as you have given this morning. There have also been briefings, and the Labour group had their briefing before the Conservative group...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Caroline Pidgeon (AM): Mr Mayor, last year TfL ended with a £91 million operating surplus, largely made up from fares revenue and predictions so far this year look like around £32 million additional revenue. So this would mean that you potentially do not have to put up fares by 5.2%, according to the formula that TfL tends to use. Will you agree, and you have been saying that you want to do everything you can to be reasonable in tough times, will you agree to look at targeted fare reductions by perhaps introducing a one-hour bus ticket, early bird fares...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you, Chair. We have various rumours circulating about police properties within my constituency as well. I think what we would all like to see is some sort of process behind the way these are announced. Rather than things leaking out through rumour and possibly misinterpretation in some cases of letters that come out of Scotland Yard. Can you make sure that there is a proper process around this so that we do not get campaigns set up, for example, in places where the police station is not going to close?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Yes. To be helpful, he referred to a consultation earlier which is a consultation about rolling out of the local policing model. I think you and everyone here will agree that the history of the Metropolitan Police Service and its approach, shall we state, has been somewhat random in its decision making around the closure of the estate in the past. I would like to perhaps share with you, and hopefully you all agree that I believe that there is a process. The process is around the consultation of the policing model. Unusually, for the Metropolitan Police...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): I am sure the people of Hampstead would be interested to know that you consider their police station to be a 'stalag'. However, it cannot be right, can it, that the first the local people knew, the council knew or indeed I knew about the plan to close it was a leaked story in the Ham & High newspaper. Because it was not in your original published list. So just to follow up Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): I was speaking generally, Andrew. Andrew Dismore (AM): Will you now at least promise to have a full and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, John Biggs just mentioned the cable car [Emirate Air Line]. That was a project that was an idea of yours and our revered Chairman which was taken up and completed during the course of the mayoralty. How many people rode on it during the Olympic period?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Thank you. I must turn to the Upper Norwood extension because clearly that is something we are all very passionate about. It may be a small scheme, small but perfectly formed, just like Mr Biggs himself, however, what I would say is, would you not agree with me that it was wrong of the previous Mayor to give false hope to the people of Upper Norwood around a scheme that was never funded? The money was never there and only you recognised that, Mr Mayor, when you came into office.