• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

John Biggs (AM): Can I request a personal explanation?

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

James Cleverly (AM): I may be reading this wrong, but it strikes me that Assembly Member Qureshi's point is that unless 50% of the eligible voters turn out then the perhaps status quo should be maintained, as there is no mandate for change, so you would agree that until 50% + 1 voters in London elect someone different you should remain Mayor of London?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Murad Qureshi (AM): I think Andrew Dismore has given you a new name this morning: Kim Jong-ilJohnson. Can I ask, doesn't your endorsement, 50% + 1 of eligible voters for strike ballots, represent double standards by you?

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

Richard Tracey (AM): Absolutely. Madam Chair, I am grateful to you. Mr Mayor, can I support what Tony Arbour was saying about the Heathrow situation and the third runway, because my constituents and I live underneath the flight path in Wandsworth and we are concerned that, for a start, planes are flying in from 4.00am when they should be flying in from 6.00am. Also, there is still apparently some extension about the experiment about mixed mode and so on, various extra uses of Heathrow. Can I ask you that in your meetings with the Secretary of State for Transport you...

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

Richard Tracey (AM): Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, I gather that one direction of the Government as a result of Madame Lagarde's intervention yesterday may well be greater emphasis on infrastructure, so could I join with Steve O'Connell and ask you to lobby the Secretary of State for Transport, our friend Justine Greening, for some of the money to be produced

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 May 2012

Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): Mayor, you were absolutely right not to proceed with Ken Livingstone's ludicrous plans for the Thames Gateway Bridge, which would have been a n environmental disaster and brought traffic and pollution to the people of Bexley, but why on earth do you want to foist a similar road building scheme on the people of Inner London, which will also bring traffic and pollution and will also be an environmental disaster? We do not need either of these road links across or under the Thames. We actually need sustainable transport solutions.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Tempting though it would be to develop that argument further, I would like to return to the subject of the original question, which was the council tax, because this argument Val and her colleagues developed that all you have saved them £3 and something by cutting the council tax, rather assumes the other candidate would have frozen the council tax for four years, so that is incredible. Now, I have conducted my own piece of market research on this, Mr Mayor. At a meeting of Havering Council several weeks ago, I asked the assembled throng if anyone there would raise...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

The precept, Ken Livingstone's council tax was actually £309 when he lost office in 2008. For that, we received 5,000 new police officers, the creation of a Safer Neighbourhood team, a huge improvement in the bus service, the Oyster Card, the Olympic bid, the Crossrail Overground, the Tube upgrade going, great public spaces but now London is in a cost of living crisis and I put it to you, Mr Mayor, you are actually adding to the pain. Your tax and fares strategy is that you are offering a small cut of £3.10 in a total year on the council...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

Mayor, can I just say, if your office had shown respect to all Members and circulated this document to all Members, then we might be in a different position. This document has only been circulated, as I understand it, to your colleagues on the Conservative Group. Am I taking this to be a political document or a document that has been produced by the GLA and that all other Members will have sight to it? Can I just have your confirmation on this?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 March 2012

On the cost of developing the new bus, it has cost what will deliver eight prototype buses could have paid for 96 ordinary hybrid buses, which would have had a far bigger impact on air pollution, and would it not have been better and better value for money and better for the environment to have invested that money in cleaner engines and not worried about spending millions and millions and millions of pounds on designing a hop on/hop off bus? I know that Tories are obsessed with hop on/hop off designs, because it brings back nice memories of days gone...