• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, you are putting the fares up. They are already too high and we will bring them down yesterday.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, will you, therefore, confirm that a cut in fares and the result of the ongoing affect on TfL's performance, it will mean that the multimillion pound upgrade to the Northern line, so desired of many of my constitutes and other colleagues on this side, just couldn't happen?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, one of the characteristics of the TfL budget over the last three years that has been of importance certainly to my residents and I know to the whole of London is that you directed TfL to maintain the funding for the police on the transport network and, indeed, augmented funding for the police over the last three years. Do you think that budget approaching £100 million, more police officers on the transport network, they will have 50 extra British Transport Police, would that be sustainable under a 5% cut?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, will you please acquaint yourself with the precedent of your predecessor's cuts in investment by the Greater London Council (GLC) in the mid-1980s in order to keep the fares low and their contribution to the Kings Cross fire which killed 31 people?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

I am a little surprised, Mr Mayor, that Caroline Pidgeon and Valerie Shawcross, who have asked some very detailed questions today, did not ask them to you in written form, where they might be able to get detailed answers. Do you share my surprise that they didn't even raise them at the Transport Committee yesterday, which they chaired and deputy chaired, when they had the Commissioner of Transport, Peter Hendy, in front of them? Maybe they thought them up overnight.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, it is interesting to listen to Jenny Jones and Val Shawcross and we all share a concern where there is an increase in accidents involving children, but isn't the reality that this a multi-agency issue? It is not just something which can be pinned on yourself, as well known as you are across London I know that you are not omnipresent at every school at going home time. There is a responsibility with the schools, with the children themselves and also with the parents. I am a governor at a couple of schools and...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Jenny and I have both had conversations with you about this because I think it is one of those things that falls below the radar. People do not notice. You have used the word 'slight' in two contexts there and I think neither are appropriate. The figures that TfL will give you will show you that. These are available on the website that since 2008 traffic accidents in London have been rising in some boroughs, Redbridge, there has been a 27% increase in one year of pedestrian accidents, in Bromley 19%, in Richmond 25%, in Ealing 21%. Something is clearly...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, Murad Qureshi has raised this issue on fuel poverty a number of times. The question, which we skipped over which he was also posing, regarded air quality and CO2 targets. Now, I understand that there is a conflict in policy in achieving CO2 reduction and reducing fuel poverty charges because it is estimated some 15% of energy charges are so called green taxes. If we wished to impact everybody and list everybody in this capital city, could we recommend that the Government reduces the green tax on fuel? Would Murad then support you?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Yes, I understand the question area, Madam Chairman. The comment that Joanne made in regard to the political vacuum statement by Mr Coleman was around the fact of the discussions about Plenary. If I understand this correctly, and correct me if I am wrong, Mayor, the constitution of the GLA allows the Acting Chairman or Chairwoman to call back the Assembly at any given time at all. We had people like Kit [Malthouse] here. We also had your deputy, Richard [Barnes] here, yet the Chair decided not to call back the entirety of the GLA. Can you find a reason...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Do you not agree, Mayor, that Joanne questions about your returning is a sound question? I also was asked that question by the press at that weekend, and I am satisfied that you returned as soon as you could, bearing in mind the time zones. That is for the record. You are being criticised by colleagues on the other side for lack of action or inaction, but equally you seem to be criticised by the other side for the fact that, quite properly, you have made a very robust defence of the budget allocation from Government to Londoners, which I...