• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Just following on from that, for the avoidance of doubt, Mr Mayor, when Ms Shawcross says that it is not good enough for passengers to be forced to wait because of overrunning engineering works on various Tube lines, I think everyone would be inclined to agree with that. This is why it is for the avoidance of doubt - would it be improved if totally unfunded fare cuts were hammered through for political reasons?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

I think we would accept that gangs and a gang culture do not happen overnight. It needs time to germinate and to develop in our communities and I think it probably would be accepted around this group that perhaps eight or ten years ago a firmer grip was needed and it was not applied and we are reaping that harvest at the moment. What I would like to turn to, however, is the more complex effect on the social structure, particularly abuse of young women and young girls. You may well have seen only yesterday Yvonne Trainer [Chief Executive, Croydon...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, I just wanted to explore briefly this notion of police-generated crime. I know you are aware that almost 100% of what is classified as drug crime in the city is police-generated crime in terms of being a result of police action and therefore, presumably, you would welcome a rise in drug crime because that would be an indicator of an increase in police activity.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

We welcome the gang initiative, albeit it has taken you a number of years to bring it together. In terms of the facts and figures, I think you are right that they cannot be ignored, unless the Mayor's office is misleading in the figures it is providing me or the Metropolitan Police Service is providing me. Let us stick to the facts and figures. Do you agree with me that the facts and figures you provided me are that knife crime is up? Yes or no?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Four years ago, you said in order to tackle gang crime and serious youth violence you would open 100 boot camps which would make a fantastic difference. You said this again at the Conservative Party conference last October. How many boot camps have you opened?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, have you decided whether or not to make a toll on the Silvertown Tunnel, to put a toll on it?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Can you assure me, Mr Mayor, on the detail of the design of the Silvertown crossing that the environmental considerations are taken into consideration, especially with regard to the air quality of people in the Silvertown area?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, thank you for the information relating to your transport arrangements during the games, but I wonder whether you would consider a variation. In my position as Chair of the London Hydrogen Partnership, we do have a scheme funded jointly by the European Commission to have five hydrogen fuel cell taxis which would be available for the Games, emitting nothing but water, completely emissions free, and they will be used to ferry various people around during the Games. One of them I think is going to be made available for your use, if you feel the need.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Yes. Related to this, Mr Mayor, are you aware that for at least four whole days substantial parts of South West London are going to be completely marooned because of the cycle road races which are taking place? It is going to be impossible to cross the Thames anywhere between Kingston and Walton on those days. I wonder whether that has ever been drawn to your attention before. These are events which take place on public roads over a great swathe of London. The bicycles go past in a flash and yet the roads are going to be closed from...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, Mr Adrian Vincent is the Managing Director of Frank Rivett and Sons, who are a long-standing family-owned funeral directors based in East London. He points out to me that as undertakers they cannot work from home, they have little choice in when to work, and they are concerned about the impact the Olympic Route Network (ORN) is going to have on funeral corteges during the period of the Olympics, while that ORN is in place. I accept that the ORN is not always going to be in place. Could I ask you to make inquiries about whether or...