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London Housing Company (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
But here we are now in your fourth and final year. Can I remind you of your manifesto. You talked about the LDA having land for 30,000 units. When I last quizzed you on this, you wrote to me in February saying not that 30,000 houses had been built on LDA land under your watch but since you were elected just 1,400 starts had been made. Are you not missing a huge opportunity? Have you not been missing a huge opportunity to sort out London's housing crisis?

Cable Car (1) (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
Caroline Pidgeon (AM): That is a terrible answer. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): What? Caroline Pidgeon (AM): That is quite an extraordinary answer, and obviously I would look forward to a cable car ride with you across the river, but you seemed, last year, really confident that the cable car would be up and running before the 2012 and in fact in TfL board papers in February this year, a new Chair at TfL had said, 'The cable car is anticipated to open ahead of the 2012 Games'. What has happened to delay this?

Urgent action on air pollution (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Darren Johnson
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
Let's try and unpick that. Firstly, the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) at Marylebone Road shows that it has now reached 38 bad air days, where it has exceeded the European legal limit, so it has gone beyond the 35 limit. Secondly, the European Commission is not accepting your argument that pollution from Europe blowing into central London, missing outer London, is to blame, and the European Commission says you are wrong on that. Thirdly, in terms of the extension, a provisional extension was granted but says, 'Provided that the plan is adjusted to include short-term measures...

Blackfriars Bridge (1) (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
Have you got the right question, because you are not answering the question that I have put? This is question number 1214.

Blackfriars Bridge (1) (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Kit Malthouse
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
): In relation to Blackfriars Bridge, for those of us who are fans and big users of your bicycle scheme, immediately to the west of Blackfriars Bridge there is a bay down on the riverside, although it is on the eastbound carriageway, and it is just into the slipway to turn left to go up as if onto the bridge. Once you get to the top of the slipway, there is no right turn for cyclists. You have to basically, effectively, break the law to turn right, because you are also unable to use the route that cars do to...

Sir Paul Stephenson (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Richard Barnbrook
  • Meeting date: 18 May 2011
I have to disagree but I am not going to start going around number-crunching. The numbers I have here are somewhat different; the lowest rate in the last two years. Anyway, my concern with Sir Paul, whom I have no personal grudge against per se, is that I think he made two comments which I think are really quite appalling and these in themselves are really about my call for him stepping down. The first one is that the whole of society needs to tackle the complex cause of gun crime. I think it is really quite crude to suggest...

Mayor's Oral Update (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2011
Good morning, Mayor. You appear happy with these Government cuts in this area which is surprising, given the contribution you have just made, as it could have further supported the growth in our economy. It sounds like business as usual from you. With a 53% cut what will it mean? What will we be doing less of?

Mayor's Oral Update (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Richard Tracey
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2011
Mayor, did you detect any sign in that question from Len Duvall of acceptance of guilt on behalf of the old Labour Government for the crisis that it brought this country and London to, and it is what has brought about the need for you to take the steps you are? Did you detect any acceptance at all of guilt?

Health Service Reforms (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Richard Tracey
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2011
Mayor, in contrast with our policies where we are increasing investment in the National Health Service, as Andrew Lansley said, are you aware that Andy Burnham MP from the Labour Party in June 2010 called for the Government to withdraw plans to increase NHS spending in real terms year-on-year? He said that otherwise the commitment would visit real damage on other services such as social care. So, where is the Labour Party in this message that we have been hearing this morning?

Health Service Reforms (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Joanne McCartney
  • Meeting date: 23 March 2011
Mayor, I just want to raise the issue of Chase Farm. In November 2007 on your election trail you stood outside the hospital and said, 'The fight back against the rational hasty closures of vital London starts here,' and that it was your job to make sure that the public voices are heard. Well, Andrew Lansley [Secretary of State for Health] has currently given a stay of only three weeks left now for that hospital. Are you making representations to back up those public opinions that do not want vital services cut?
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