• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Apropos your intergalactic following, we do understand you have a very loyal base on Planet Zog but welcome back to London. I think we would endorse the comments made by Mike Tuffrey on housing, that you do need to have a big stick. I want to raise another big stick issue with you which is Crossrail. We stood together at the launch of Crossrail, on the station at Canary Wharf. The question is, is your party committed to supporting Crossrail? I think there is a consensus across the parties in this Assembly we should build it. There is a risk...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Can you confirm, Mr Mayor, that nobody in your office approved the Garden Party list?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

During your visit to Seoul you mentioned that you wanted to have the main Olympic Stadium with the roof completely changed so that it covered the entire stadium.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

In relation to your Housing Strategy published this morning and which you mentioned there, you say on page one that you are making excellent progress towards the target of 50,000 affordable houses. Careful reading, by the time you get to page 155, reveals actually that you are less than halfway in terms of getting firm promises from the boroughs. So my question really is, acknowledging the fact that this is hugely difficult, these are only promises to use the best endeavours, these are not numbers of houses built, these are promises from boroughs, are you and the boroughs serious about...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Navin Shah (AM): In your Affordable Housing Strategy there is an interesting and welcome section on designing better homes. What is worrying is one of the aspects dealing with design of homes is you are not requiring private developers to adopt the design standards. Why is that the case?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

You have described it as crazy, inappropriate and crass. Where does greed come into that in the sense that you are saying it is not dishonest? Does greed come into that description of this individual?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Thank you, Chair. Can I agree with you on one point: that this does not, on the face of it, appear to be a deliberate attempt to defraud the taxpayer in that the repayments of personal expenditure were made regularly if not totally properly.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I find it interesting that so many people are commenting on an LDA Board meeting that they were not at. I will declare an interest; I was at that particular LDA Board meeting. As I recall, the discussion was whether the money would be best spent on academies or best spent addressing other systemic failures of the Government with regard to its education and training policies of young people. I will do a John Biggs: 'But you don't need to answer that, I will move on'.

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I was not going to say anything but then you spoke, Mr Mayor! Obviously I am trying to persuade you that the best way of achieving your objective of reducing or halving overcrowding by 2016 is that that objective will not be well met by building so many one and two bedroom properties. Still within your criteria the majority of properties will be one and two bedroom flats. Bearing in mind that the vast bulk of overcrowding in the housing stock in London is in one and two bedroom flats it seems daft to me that the majority of properties...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

In any debate around numbers of London boroughs and this and that, clearly as most London boroughs are Conservative anyway and there will be more so next May it is likely there will be a disproportionate amount of Conservative boroughs! Mr Mayor, your aspiration to work with boroughs is well founded and I would, of course, quote Croydon as a borough that is embracing your targets and in the way that you are working with them. Would you not agree, Mr Mayor, that the innovation of a single conversation - which is a piece of work which before has not...