• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Do you accept, first, that Boris Johnson is the Mayor of London, second that he appointed you Chair of the Fire Authority, third that he has a power of direction and fourth that, contrary to what you said about it being some sort of collective decision about the future direction of the Authority in which you are a sort of lifeless puppet, you actually have a responsibility and - with the Mayor's authority - I think a duty to offer leadership on its future direction?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

A question to the Commissioner. We are giving a briefing this afternoon on the budget. There are a lot of backroom cuts and other things in that briefing. What is the sum total of the savings you have identified so far that are going to be recommended?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Yes, forgive me I am not a member of the Fire Service. I am not part of the briefings, but certainly locally in my borough of Enfield and Haringey there is concern at the scale of the cuts and what that will mean for local services, and where what we are already hearing that, particularly with night cover, there may be some reductions in the number of appliances that are available. Can I just confirm are you considering, certainly n Enfield and Haringey, my constituencies whether you will be closing stations, reducing appliances or the staff working them? Perhaps the...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

In the past two years it is correct, is it not, that you have been extremely helpful to the Police Service, because you have such fine reserves that you are able to give them financial contribution.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Boris, there is some work going on on the District line at the moment to improve the service, which we are all very pleased about. This I think is really a question for the Commissioner. The work that is going on at the depot in Upminster is proving to be more disruptive to neighbours than they were told it would be, with noise and working for longer hours than they were told would take place, and I think what can fairly be described as an unhelpful attitude from some of the staff in the depot when the neighbours go around...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thanks to the pressure by yourself and others no doubt. Are you concerned that such failures on the Underground at Games time could lead to worldwide embarrassment and what are you personally doing to assure yourself that the system is going to be working as well as it can throughout the Games?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I have a question to the Mayor. Had you perhaps underestimated how difficult it would be running the Tube network?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Can you understand Londoners' frustrations? People expect you to take time off as Mayor, but when there are so many problems on the Tube that commuters face and they see you off on promotional book tours in the United States and so on, can you understand Londoners' frustration with you?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I think the last thing any of us want is images being beamed around the world of spectators having to be walked down the tracks and tunnels due to a broken-down train or some signalling problem or whatever, and particularly we have now heard that Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, may even occasionally be travelling by the Tube thanks to the pressures from you and others.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

This question is about a matter that was not the fault of London Underground, but I would like to hear whether you have received assurances of compensation from Thames Water for flooding the Tube a couple of weeks ago?