• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Mr Mayor, of course those cities that have had the privilege of being able to vote on whether or not they want a congestion charge - or congestion tax, actually - have rejected it. Will you give the right to Londoners to comment on the existing Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

As you will be aware, Mr Mayor, there are some of us who for quite a period of time have been doubtful about the effect of the Congestion Charge experiment in London generally, not least as to whether it was going to achieve its objectives on an environmental basis over and above the damage in cost to business and residents in central London, and that actually, it was a tax-raising measure, effectively dressed up with some of green or congestion overlay. Over time, in fact, the effects of it have not been proved, not least because congestion is now exactly...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

I am interested to hear you say that it is too early to judge whether or not the trade has increased, because we all want the shops there to do well. You have had to make the decision that that increase in trade for those people is worth any congestion that does happen, and any worsening air pollution. I mean, you think that is a fair trade, do you?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Mr Mayor, you will recall the excellent reception which you hosted upstairs for volunteers from Havering and Redbridge recently. You may remember it particularly because of the impromptu opera recital we were treated to by Katie Milton of the Queen's Theatre.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Thank you, Deputy Chair. Mr Mayor, we welcome in Havering the reduction of crime on buses, which has been the result of the introduction of the SNTs, but do you also not feel that some of the crime reduction is probably due to the removal of bendy busses from London routes? Back at the time when they reigned supreme the vast majority of the top ten bus routes which were affected by crime were actually routes which were plied by those vehicles. Will you have a study done to see what difference that has made?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

I am reluctant to go in for TfL bashing, but it is a good sport. When Mr Griffin came before BMAC and he was pushed on the savings that could be made. One of the interesting observations that he made was that there were not even shared services within TfL. He suggested that the businesses within TfL were themselves reluctant to go for shared services. A far more important point is related to this: there are many London boroughs who are gung ho to share services with you, because of the enormous savings that can be made in procurement London...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

May I suggest that the railway stations identified by the noble Baroness are in fact under the control of British Transport Police and not the MPS and it is there that there needs to be some cooperation. The success at Hillingdon and Heathrow is because Social Services were first involved endeavouring to identify children who were first being trafficked into the country. However, there is also an issue of children being - trafficked is the wrong word - forcibly taken out of this country to the Indian subcontinent for purposes of marriage, etc, or indeed family control. If we are...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

I was extremely disappointed that the Inspector and the EIP did not support the majority of your policies. Your polices on 'garden-grabbing', Gypsies, affordable housing and all of these matters were extremely popular with Londoners, and indeed up until now have influenced development proposals which have come before us. I am particularly incensed by the watering down of your policy on back garden development. We all know that the character of London, particularly outer London, does in fact depend on the space in which houses sit. One of the characteristics of outer London is indeed the existence of back gardens...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

Mr Mayor, will you welcome and encourage the negotiations between the Borough Commander in Ealing and the Chief Executive and Council of Ealing to move the police headquarters out of their current inadequate, inaccessible - it does not even meet the Disability Discrimination Act - building into the civic centre to provide a service that is wanted and needed by the people of Ealing? Will you please continue to examine police assets to make sure that the meet local need and are not pickled in some form of Victorian aspic?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 June 2011

I understand what you are saying about the need to look at everything and to rationalise where necessary. What I would like you to be very clear about is last year you gave a categorical assurance that no police station or police facility would be closed unless and until one providing either the same level of service or an enhanced level of service was opened and up and running. Have you changed that commitment?