• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I am giving you a chance to answer those questions in relation to the issues around what you were briefed around News International in that period of time. Let us move on, so can you tell us what you discussed with Rebecca Brooks at your meeting on 14 January and were you accompanied by any GLA paid employee at that meeting?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Are you aware, Mr Mayor, that there will be many Londoners, and indeed many people here in this Assembly today, who think it is disgraceful of Len Duvall pretending to be Robert Jay, a poor man's Robert Jay, in continuously harassing you and not accepting your reply? There are many of us who think that the man who has twice successfully polled more than a million votes of Londoners to become Mayor of London is someone who should be trusted and indeed can be trusted. To be consistently called a liar is wholly unacceptable.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Mr Mayor, one last question, why did you not give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, is it because you would have to give evidence under oath, is that why you chose not to give evidence?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Do you think it was unwise to have those meetings at that time, no matter in terms of how good your intentions were, with representatives of an organisation under a very high profile criminal investigation into its criminal activities, allegedly, as well as individuals. Do you think it was wise that you had that meeting and do you not think that those that may look outside were looking knowing that the knowledge and leadership that you provide from this place in City Hall, as well as in the police, is that some would suspect that something else took place at...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Just to remind you, Mr Mayor, why we are asking these questions. It is because these are two meetings that you said we knew all about these meetings that you had with News International, and these are ones that you kept secret. You chose to put those into a public domain, ten months after they actually appeared. Why did you try and conceal those meetings?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Explain to me why then, on all those issues about the promotion of the work, why was Will Lewis, the senior non editorial executive, invited to your meeting, at that lunch with Rebecca Brooks. Why was he invited to that meeting? Now, Will Lewis was co ordinating the News International response to the Metropolitan Police Service, so why was he invited to that meeting on 14 January?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Months later, after you told this Assembly that all the meetings with News International were out in the open and these two were particularly not there, and disclosed in a different way. Can you tell us what you discussed with Rupert Murdoch as you dropped into dinner with him on 24 January and were you accompanied by accompanied by any GLA paid employees?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Thank you for stating that for the record. There are some further questions I need to ask, Mr Mayor, and I will focus on those, and if you could focus on the answers we might get through this rather quickly. When did you find out that the Metropolitan Police Service were going to look into phone hacking again at that time and when did you find out about Operation Weeting? Just to help you, this was quite an important weekend, I think the Prime Minister's press officer had resigned, there was lots of news in terms, and I know you...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

This is your opportunity to enlighten us further, because these meetings we were not aware of until only recently. So, on 10 January 2011, you received a briefing from AC John Yates, do you recall what this briefing was about and would it have been at that time that you were informed Operation Weeting was about to be launched?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

That is 10 January 2011 with John Yates, which is four days prior to your meeting with Rebecca Brooks. Just to help you, Mr Mayor, 24 January, 'Dropped into dinner with Rupert Murdoch', is about two days prior to the Operation Weeting. So these are an opportunity where you can clarify matters in public, which I think is the right way to do, to deal with those issues, and so that is why I am asking these questions. So can you tell me when you think you were told about Weeting and when were you informed that investigation was about...