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

James Cleverly (AM): Thank you, Chair. I had hoped to subtly remind you that my understanding is that Members were here to ask questions of the Mayor and receive answers from the Mayor. Unfortunately, there have been a number of occasions where Labour Members have finished their line of questioning with a statement and you have curtailed the Mayor's attempts to answer the implied questions in those statements. If we are envisaging a change of standing orders where Members are allowed to make parting shots or closing statements, whatever you want to call them, perhaps you could inform the Assembly...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Valerie Shawcross CBE (AM): Thank you Chair. Mr Mayor, you are responsible for the police in this city but it seems to me --

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

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you Chair. Mr Mayor, you have heard today that you have had correspondence with a number of Members of the Assembly about threats to police services in their areas. Can you tell me, in the course of that correspondence have they made any suggestions about other ways in which the police service would be able to save money given that it was their Government that created the financial situation that makes the savings necessary?

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

Andrew Dismore (AM): Very straightforward question, Mr Mayor. When my borough commander a couple of weeks ago told me that the borough commanders would be merged between Barnet and Harrow and Navin's [Shah} borough commander told him exactly the same thing and showed us that map that Jo [McCartney] produced, were they lying to us?

• 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?