• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

How many nurses at Guy's Hospital do you think can afford one of those properties, or how many consultants?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Yes, but this does not include the sort of properties, the sort of people you were talking about earlier on today, the people who are in work poverty, for example, could possibly aspire to have. Because of your attitude towards social housing, and you may have some more questions on that later on, the fact remains that your policy of affordable housing does nothing for most Londoners.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Nicky Gavron (AM): Mayor, half the need Jennette Arnold (Chair): Just hold on until we can have some respect and quiet for your question, Assembly Member Gavron. Thank you. Nicky Gavron (AM): Mayor, half the need, from your own housing assessment, half the need for affordable housing is for people on very low incomes and, as you rightly pointed out, this month you are consulting on a policy that changes the definition of affordable housing and there was a bit you did not quote that says that it will no longer be at a cost low enough for them, that...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

When you wrote for Nottingham Housing Association's First Steps website, 'This website is London's gateway to affordable home ownership', did you know that on the website, for a shared ownership three bed over the shops property near Guy's Hospital, required income to qualify was £104,250?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

What I want to go back to is that I applaud you wanting to provide a lot of social rented housing, but all our housing associations tell us that the take home pay or the income that most of their tenants have is £15,000. You are now, this is a quote, you have now said there will be no grants funding for social rented housing in the 2011 2015 spending round. It is true there are some social rented houses in that round but they are hangovers from the last round. You have said yourself that you are merging the...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I welcome your policy towards mixed housing and mixed housing tenure, not least because as a representative of Central London I am aware that there is a strong tendency for Inner London to become a ghetto for the very rich and the very poor and that you are absolutely right, we need to support those people in the middle. Do you agree with me though that there will be more social housing available for the poor and middle income family if there were not council flats occupied by Labour former Cabinet Ministers or indeed very highly paid trade union leaders?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

It would only add 1% to the wage bill according to the resolution foundation in computing and software and indeed in banking where we have seen these huge disparate levels of income. The fact is, is it not, as often has been said, we are heading to Victorian levels of poverty and inequality in London under your mayoralty. I was going to say there is some hypocrisy amongst the Conservatives over Victorian values and morality but under your mayoralty, there are Victorian levels of poverty and disparity of. What are you going to do about it?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

When you got sponsorship for the cable car from Emirates, you praised them to the roof today, and a wide fare on the Tube to Virgin Media, why did you not insist on them paying the London Living Wage when you did so? Should we not rebrand the Emirates the poverty line rather than the skyline?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): If you talk about the London Living Wage, you claim that 100 companies have signed up to London Living Wage. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Sorry, I cannot quite hear what you are saying. Andrew Dismore (AM): You claim 100 companies have signed up to London Living Wage but that represents fewer than 9,000 people in work and it is the case, is it not, that we have 680,000 Londoners who are in work but are in poverty struggling to make ends meet for themselves and their families. That is 1 million Londoners in working householders in...

• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Mr Mayor, have you undertaken any assessment of food poverty in London?