• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 13 June 2012

Joanne McCartney (AM): Mr Mayor, I just want to ask you about robbery on the buses, because last year has shown an increase of almost 4.5%, so the trend seems to be going upwards, and we also have ten boroughs experiencing huge increases of over 20% in robbery on buses. If I give an example of Haringey, my own constituency, we saw an alarming 87% increase in robbery on buses. Can I ask, why do you think that the cases of robbery on buses are so patchy across London?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Andrew Boff (AM): Is the contrition that has just been given a strong argument for improving the power of clinicians in the decisions that take place in the National Health Service (NHS)?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Roger Evans (AM): I think it would be useful if the Assembly recognised the work of many people across London on this important project including Councillor Linda Kelly of Hackney who is involved in organising the memorial in Hackney.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

James Cleverly (AM): I do have one on the Nine Point Plan and it is about waste and expenditure of political groups at City Hall, Mr Major.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Tony Arbour (AM): In fact, your first point was cutting waste at City Hall. I wonder, Mr Mayor, whether or not you have looked at the budget which has been granted to the Labour group here which is so fat that they have been able to allocate £50,000 to buy in the votes of the Greens and the Liberal members.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, I think your manifesto, as compared to the other one offered, was a work in progress leading to the future. The other manifesto was leading us to the past. Now, I have two specifics. (1) Am I not right that in 2000 and 2004, the Labour candidate who became Mayor promises a freeze in fares or a cut in fares but he did not deliver, did he?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, I would be interested to know your instincts on things. Do you think that it is important that housing benefit should have been reformed to ensure that we do not subsidise people to live in the private sector on rents that other ordinary working families could not afford?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): Thank you, Chair. I have listened to what the Mayor had to say, because there are 1,300 fewer police officers now than there were when the Conservative Government came into office in 2010, but my question really is this: how many fully sworn police officers, excluding Specials, will there be in a year's time, and how many Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) will there be in a year's time?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Chair, I am sure new Members will learn the discipline that is expected in this place. Turning back to police, I am sure Londoners, Mr Mayor, will be delighted that you have delivered this commitment of extra police. Would you not share with me the rather dismissive attitude of colleagues across the way around Specials? Under your leadership, you have doubled the number of Specials, and I think your plan includes increasing them up to 10,000. Specials play an important role, particularly in our evenings on Fridays and Saturday nights, Mr Mayor. Again, will you reinforce to...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Mr Mayor, will the Transport for London Business Plan continue to promote Crossrail as one of its key elements?