• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

I wanted to ask specifically about the situation on the Marylebone Road which is causing consternation in that northern part of Westminster. I should declare that I live two blocks away from the Marylebone Road. As you will know, because you cycle it very often, the Marylebone Road is two lanes of normal traffic and one bus lane. The plans under the Olympic Route Network are to put a lane outside the bus lane, therefore reducing the lane for normal traffic down to one lane. That will cause alarm, not least because obviously that will cause massive traffic jams at...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Mr Mayor, have you done any kind of cost benefit analysis of promoting London abroad, rather than just relying on the fact that it is the most famous city on earth? I wonder what promotion it really needs.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

I was going to ask you, Mr Mayor, I just wondered in passing how many other suggestions, apart from that brief one from Caroline [Pidgeon] have you had from the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats and the Greens on cost savings for TfL?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Mr Mayor, last night, this subject was debated at length at Barnet Council. Having listened to the sensible arguments made, not least in my own speech, Liberal Democrat members of Barnet Council voted with the Conservative Members and against a Labour motion. Would you not say that is a sign that there are Liberal Democrats in London who understand this issue and understand the points that you make?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Mr Mayor, when considering the allocation of funds for Decent Homes to boroughs, can you at least seek some assurance that those boroughs are going to spend that money in the most effective way possible, and treat with some suspicion and scepticism the very many Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes in London that have resulted in very poor value for money? I refer, in particular, to the PFI contracts let by the previous Liberal Democrat administration in Islington, which is £110 million over budget and subject to legal proceedings as we speak.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Mr Mayor, would you think it would have been helpful if the Chairman of the MPA at the time that these incidents allegedly happened, Mr Duvall, was to have had made an intervention and to tell the MPA or, indeed, tell you in a private meeting - what he was briefed at the time that these events happened and what actions he took? Do you not think that would be helpful?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

The basic problem for Londoners is that the Mayor of London is not meant to be a music hall act; it is meant to be a serious job. Put it this way; if, by dysfunctional, you mean a Mayor who speaks up for London and, on occasions, is loathed by people of their own Party because they are saying the right things for Londoners, then that is the sort of Mayor London needs. I have no hesitation whatsoever in endorsing any Mayoral candidate from my Party who is prepared to stand up for London; and disassociating myself from any Mayoral...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Mr Mayor, this question is entitled Lobbying for London and, despite what Valerie Shawcross has been saying to you, I read an opinion poll that says that Londoners, and particularly London's businesses are 55% satisfied with the very tough fight that you are putting up on behalf of London.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Those of us who were present as Members of the Assembly during the two previous Mayoral administrations will know that there was a dysfunctional relationship between the then Mayor and the Government and many of us felt that Londoners did not have a voice and the Assembly did not have a voice simply because ministers were not interested in listening to the previous Mayor. In the light of that, isn't it really somewhat hypocritical for there to be criticism from the opposition about the conversations that you have had with ministers? You are at least able to speak to ministers...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 September 2010

Referring to the case for London, the Mayor has twice now made unsubstantiated allegations about Liberal Democrat ministers. Would he agree with me that the priority is for us here in London to be united in making the case for London?