• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, you do have responsibility for healthcare inequalities in London --

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

The deficit denial that is coming from across the floor is always interesting to listen to. Could you tell me - because I am slightly confused - how long was the previous Labour Government in power for, Mayor?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, you have twice mentioned this morning the police cost of public order. One of the big costs there is always overtime. In fact it only uses up 7% of overtime and 93% of overtime goes on other things. That might be a cut worth making. I wanted to say you do not have to be on the platform to make a speech to be at the demonstration. I am walking with my local Green Party. If you would like to join us we would love to have you. You would be very welcome. Will you come? Will you come...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, I am going to be on the march on Saturday for a number of issues. One of those is the cuts to policing that have taken place. What are you doing to stand up to the black hole that is going to develop, and is developing, in police budgets over the next few years?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

I have always seen you as totally neutral, Chair. It is interesting though to hear who around this table is going to be on the march on Saturday. I have to say, Mayor, I will not be joining the protest march and, if the performance of John and Joanne is anything to go by, perhaps marchers should be taking their sleeping bags along, rather than preparing to riot. Just in case someone does stir up anything other than apathy on Saturday, what are the measures you are putting in place to ensure that Londoners can continue to go about their...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

): I am not going to be on the march but on Saturday many hundreds of thousands of people throughout London will do as they have done on every Saturday; they will be out there helping the community, they will be out there helping their local scout troop, they will be helping train young footballers, they will be clearing the river banks. They will be doing something useful. They will be doing something to help the Big Society. Would it not be infinitely better, Mayor, if the people who were on the march - like Mr Biggs and Ms McCartney...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, can we remind ourselves that the function of the EMA was to encourage students to maintain their positions in full time education after the statutory leaving age? Research from the National Foundational of Educational Research says that 90% of students who receive the allowance would continue in full time education even without it, so would you agree with me that this is another example, as we discussed earlier with some of the projects we inherited from the previous administration through the LDA, that this is a poorly targeted funding stream with a high degree of what in the business...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, did you detect a contradiction in Dick's written question? At point one he asked you to confirm that the Merton borough SNTs have not changed and that there are two PCs per ward, yet in point two he asks you to confirm that the budget for next year provides for the current model of only one PC. Which one do you think is right?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

On that particular point, bearing in mind the pressures on the budget and the effect on authorities and forces outside London, I hope you agree with me that the budget that's been arrived at by the MPA in effect is if anything a tour de force and a great result for Londoners; to the degree that indeed you are increasing the frontline at this very difficult time. Hopefully you will agree with me on that point, but also hopefully you'll agree with me that we should be looking at outcomes and outcomes are that we will see more police on...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Mayor, in the last Mayoral campaign you were very active, quite rightly, in going around London defending NHS services, particularly hospitals which are very important to many communities, against ill conceived and misjudged closures. Now, whilst recognising that clinical outcomes are always going to be important, there is more to hospital services in London than just clinical outcomes, are there not? There are extremely important community issues that have to be taken into consideration and are not taken into consideration by NHS bureaucrats. Would you not agree that Londoners expect you to be speaking up for those community considerations in...