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

Andrew Dismore (AM): Of these hundreds of thousands of new jobs you are proposing to create, how many are going to be long term young unemployed people? How many permanent full time jobs for young people are you going to create, bearing in mind your abject failure to deal with long term youth unemployment in the last year?

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

Mr Mayor, could you ensure, along with your commitment to the key principles of the Go Dutch campaign that London cyclists learn to obey the rule of the road as much as they do in Holland?

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

Steve O'Connell (AM): Mr Mayor, Londoners will be delighted to learn that jobs and growth will be one of the overriding themes of your new mayoralty, particularly Londoners in Croydon and Sutton, and particularly so in Croydon with the memory of the rioting a year ago. Londoners in Croydon welcome the investment that you have made. Can you reassure those young people and those families across Croydon and Sutton that the jobs that you will be creating over the next four years, although many of the projects are towards the east and to the centre, that many young Croydonians will...

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

James Cleverly (AM): Extending that theme a little bit further, I mean Croydon is already renowned as a business hub and as a neighbouring borough to my constituency, and with a number of my constituents working in the Croydon town centre, I do wish them well. What I would also like to ensure that you concentrate on is the massive growth potential in employment that sits with small and even micro businesses. These are much more likely to be found in suburban London and many of the issues that we discuss regularly about congestion on the transport infrastructure could be...

• 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.