• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, does the press have a duty of care to protect the confidences and interests of GLA employees?

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Cold homes cost the NHS £1.36 billion a year through the cost to hospitals and general practitioners. Last year there was a 12% increase in deaths in the winter months over the year previously. You already recognised that Londoners need help to protect them against the greed of the energy companies, they need to have their houses retrofitted, they need to conserve their energy so they can use their money more effectively, and yet you are ending your Re:New programme. Would you please reconsider that? Is this a good time to stop this programme?

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

Mr Mayor, I believe it is correct that over half of London's 150 police stations - I think it is 150 - are open for 24 hours a day and that compares to the national average of 13%. So, this comparison with accounting forces which has been made rather spurious, is it not a fact that the Metropolitan Police Service should be able to stand a 20% cut in the national police budget far better than the counties?

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

Could I put to you, Mayor, an email I had from William Wellbank, who is the Chair of the Hampstead Safer Neighbourhood Panel, only this morning? He is obviously concerned about your plan to close Hampstead Police Station and replace it with a stall and cups of coffee. What he said is this: 'One hour on the evening of 22 January to do the whole Borough of Camden is outrageous and can hardly be called a consultation. Clearly it would be hard to get Hampstead's voice heard amongst the many. Surely the wards and their Safer Neighbourhood Panels with targeted...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, I hope you would agree with me that any decisions around closures or otherwise of police stations should be based on evidence. So also should be the participation or otherwise of Assembly Members in particular campaigns around particular police stations. On that basis, will you give us all the evidence again and send every Assembly Member a copy of the footfall survey that was conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service around every single front counter, which might illustrate that Hampstead Police Station, for instance, I think from memory - I may be wrong - was getting an average...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, I wanted to get back to the budget. We are all worried about the budget and what it means for policing in London because it is a huge cut, 20%. Do you genuinely think that you can maintain frontline operational policing as it is at the moment?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

My colleague Andrew Boff was characteristically generous to your predecessor in suggesting that he had spent an hour in each borough in London. I can tell you there were a number of places where we did not see him from year to year. It is unfair of Labour colleagues to characterise this as an hour in each borough when quite often I think people who wish to make their concerns known or contribute positively could do so better by writing to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime or by contributing in other ways where they can actually get their...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

I wondered, Mr Mayor, if you would join me in paying tribute to those people who keep open police stations, the volunteers who keep police stations open --

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Do help me with my confusion, Mr Mayor, because some Members are talking about the consultation period only being for an hour in each borough or something. As I understood it - and perhaps you can correct me if I am wrong - there will be an unprecedented consultation with regard to the Police and Crime Plan that will start in the New Year, last for six weeks and will engage all Londoners. Not just in an open consultation but in an innovative, interactive survey of all Londoners as to the Police and Crime Plan. Is it the one hour...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, do you agree that residents need to be consulted on major cuts to frontline service provisions like the closing of fire stations and reduction in fire engines?