• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I am wondering if you can see that there might be risks in the approach that you take to the boroughs on strategic issues like housing targets? Greens support devolution to the lowest appropriate authority but you are the strategic element of the whole thing. You are smiling at me as if you know what I am going to say --

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Yes. Following your exchange with Nicky Gavron - just for the completeness of the record - can you tell us which Labour boroughs have failed to agree your housing targets so far?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

On a similar subject, Mr Mayor, do you feel, as your predecessor did, that Bob Crow [General Secretary, RMT] is an appropriate person to be on the Board of Transport for London?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Part of supplying a really good Tube service is all about paying fair wages. You have said in the past that it is not your responsibility; that it is private companies and so on. Actually Tube Lines, for example, is not currently paying a Living Wage - that you have just increased - to its cleaners, has said it will not negotiate except with the RMT but it will negotiate if Transport for London is there. So will you just say to Transport for London that it should be there and negotiate a London Living Wage for those cleaners?

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

Mr Mayor, do you share my amazement that the Labour Group opposite seem to be trying to shift the burden of blame on to you for a strike which was called by a small cabal of the RMT leadership, not supported by the other transport unions and, indeed, not even supported by the majority of RMT members?

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

Unfashionable though it may be for a reconstructed male to be an advocate for women's issues, I have been living and breathing this issue in Croydon for some years now through Croydon Council and the rape crisis centre Chief Executive, Yvonne Trainer - a shining advocate of that work - has kept that piece of work going on with some support from the Council, living hand to mouth, for some years now, with no support in the last eight years from the previous Mayor and no lobbying of the sort I have just heard from the other side, so I...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I think the point of division here is on the timing because if you say you are going to act immediately we rather think that means you are going to act immediately, so it is that bit of the promise. I do not think we disbelieve the bit of your promise to say you are going to do it; it is more about the timing -- Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair): It did not say over four years. Jenny Jones (AM): Thank you. It did not say over four years; it said immediately and it then needed to be immediately. You...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Further, Mr Mayor, would you accept that the Royal Parks Agency has behaved disgracefully over Regents Park and the sports facilities there, when it lost its planning application for inappropriate flood lighting and it has now closed down the well-used community asset tennis club that was used by many residents of Westminster and Camden and it is now lying semi-derelict where there was once a thriving tennis club. Its complete lack of consultation with local residents is something that can no longer be tolerated. Certainly I - and I think many colleagues of all parties - would support far more...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Thank you. One of the problems with the Tube upgrade is, as Tim O'Toole [Former Managing Director, London Underground] mentioned before he left, that Crossrail will be going on at the same time and there is going to be a tension, particularly in times of recession, in actually finding all the funding. Are you personally so committed to Crossrail that you think the Tube upgrades are less important?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I should declare an interest as a daily Jubilee Line victim but, nevertheless, in -- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Beneficiary I think is the word you are looking for! Kit Malthouse (AM): Well hopefully in years to come. I know you appreciate the distress that has been caused up and down the Jubilee Line given the extra closures, not least by those businesses who operate largely at the weekend who will be disproportionately affected, not least the O2 and other venues on the line. One of the critical things though about weekend closures is the state in which the...