• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, on the same subject of the EU, there has been a lot of scaremongering, not really from across the political spectrum but from certain sectors of it and from various politicians, including some who are quick to criticise but have no idea what they would have done in the same circumstances, which is very interesting. Is it not the case, Mr Mayor, that to move the EU forward - and it is supposed to be a forward-looking project - that it requires treaties and that it is a fundamental principle of the founding of the European Economic Community...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

I think many of us have been wondering what Gordon Brown [former British Prime Minister] has been doing for the last couple of years. It is now clear he has been acting as an adviser to the Ken Livingstone [former Mayor of London] budget team with an approach which can only be described as Grecian to racking up debt and to keeping it. But, Mr Mayor, you drew our attention rightly to the RPI plus 12% increases that we experienced under your predecessor's administration. Would it surprise you to learn that not only did Labour Members vote for that budget...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

We have seen before the passion and the commitment and the determination that you have shown in terms of fighting regulation in the City of London and speaking up for financial institutions in the City of London. Are you ever going to apply that same passion and determination to actually looking at making fares affordable for ordinary Londoners?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, can I bring you some good news. You did say that you were looking for a pot of money which you could use to bring down the fares.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, I am just curious as to who we should believe when it comes to these things. I seek your guidance on this. I am curious as to whether we should believe Ken Livingstone when he claims that he will use 'excess profit' at TfL to cut fares or whether we should believe a Mr K Livingstone, former Mayor of London, who in 2006 said, 'We do not make a profit. We are not allowed to make a profit'. I am curious as to whether we should believe the Ken Livingstone currently campaigning to be Mayor of London when...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, the debt repayment that was referred to earlier by the other side is, as you have just outlined, effectively paying an early gratuity which reduces the length of the debt and the amount to be repaid; thereby delivering considerable savings to Londoners. The surplus that has been talked about endlessly by the other side has also endlessly, we have been told, been swallowed up by inflation - much of it. So would you agree, Mr Mayor, that given that things have been repeated endlessly and in public many times, there may be a reason that God gave people...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Whilst of course wishing to support colleagues in Croydon, Tottenham and elsewhere, one must not take more off those parts of London which behaved themselves impeccably and of course your Outer London Fund is assisting those areas like Barnet, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and other places which did not riot. So there must not be any rewards for rioting, I would suggest, Mr Mayor. But can I take your answer to the --

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Just taking Chair's action for the following on there. It is Peter Rogers. The borough officers and everybody is already on the case, so you will find information ready and available to you, Mr Mayor.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, would you agree that when comparing police numbers over a period, it is helpful if you compare like with like, and that therefore when Assembly Member McCartney is comparing the number in 2008 with the number we have now, she has to take into account the change in the training regime. The number in 2008 will have included up to 1,000 trainees who were in the classroom at Hendon rather than out on the street, and that in the intervening year, we have had a change in the training model, which means we no longer have those trainees...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

I am delighted that the cable car is going ahead, and if you recall, it was an idea that first came from a sort of catapult.