• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 July 2010

You say you are not closing the ticket offices, Mr Mayor, but 45 ticket offices will be open for less than three hours a day, and there will be about 80 or so stations where there is only one staff member on the entire station for some part of the day. Now I think you will understand, therefore, why Londoners will be shocked because, in your manifesto, page two, you said, 'Ensuring that there is always a manned ticket office at every station' was one of your commitments. Isn't it clear that you are not actually planning, as you say...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 July 2010

That point is well made and the criticism from here is not well made, but there is a point here that you should be focusing on which is that, despite this huge effort that is going on - and I acknowledge that - in terms of PM10s in central London, the measures are going to be barely enough and rely on these sort of special measures - you are not tackling the fundamental issue which is my 'clean air zone'. That would solve it. When we get to nitrogen dioxide we are well, well short of where we need to...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 14 July 2010

Without in any way wishing to downplay the potential health impacts of bad air quality in London, because I think they are accepted, would you agree that the health quality report that has been published, as you correctly said, contains estimates rather than 4,267 named people that have died as a result of air quality and that poor air quality is a contributor to their deaths, not the cause of their death? It is not like a bullet through the head or a bomb or a terrorist incident. It is a contributor to their death, rather than a direct cause...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 July 2010

Darren mentioned the Mayor's Health Study. I really want to know why your office has been so reluctant to publish the health study? Was it the fact that it was telling us that the premature deaths are not concentrated just in central London but the whole of London? Was it the fact that it also establishes that there were increases in occurrences of ill health throughout the lifetime of a lot of people? Or was it the focus on PM2.5s? I want to know what have you been afraid of, or are trying to cover up?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Mr Mayor, will you accept that among the lies spread by the Labour Party in the election was that Sure Start was going to be cut and that we have just heard that again this morning from Mr Biggs? I think you overlooked challenging him on that. As you know, Sure Start remains a central policy plank of this Coalition Government.

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Chair, would the Mayor make comment relating to what John Biggs just mentioned on the aspect of the poorest in London being the most vulnerable, and with cuts coming around the corner from central government the possibility that the London boroughs will be forced to increase Council Tax? I know it is quite early on in the year but would the Mayor make comment on the grounds that he may, once again, consider freezing the precept for next year to relieve any problems that may occur in the next couple of months or a year?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Mr Mayor, will you accept that among the lies spread by the Labour Party in the election was that Sure Start was going to be cut and that we have just heard that again this morning from Mr Biggs? I think you overlooked challenging him on that. As you know, Sure Start remains a central policy plank of this Coalition Government.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Mr Mayor, a little while ago we heard the tragic news about a young girl, Agnes Sina-Inakoju, who was shot in Hoxton. She added to a very sorry list of fatalities amongst young people as a result of gun crime. The irony is that Agnes was, herself, part of a scheme that tried to teach young people about the consequences of their actions and, unfortunately, she paid a price for that. I fully support the actions that have been taken by the Metropolitan Police Service with regard to diversionary activities for young people and intervention at the appropriate times, but...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

Chair, I think most people here know this is a particular subject close to my heart, especially since I have been dragged over the coals both here and in Barking and Dagenham regarding knife crime. Would the Mayor now agree that the figures of minors murdered this year are now level with that of 2008? 2008 - that is the annual year - 36 minors were murdered by knife. This year I think it is around 15/16, so far this year Kit Malthouse (AM): It is 11; the same as last year. Richard Barnbrook (AM): Different statistics. Kit Malthouse (AM)...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 June 2010

the Thames Estuary Airport did you discuss this project with the Secretary of State or with any Government Minister over the last few weeks, or have you?