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

1217/2009 - Tamiflu Navin Shah Whilst I must applaud your generosity in offering additional Tamiflu supplies to the Government, I am concerned that this seems yet another rash gesture, on your part. How will you ensure that sufficient stocks will be available for London's emergency services and vital service personnel? These stocks of Tamiflu were bought by Ken Livingstone to protect London and were paid for by Londoners. What guarantees do you have from Government that these supplies of the vaccine will be used specifically to protect London and Londoners?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Can I support what my colleague, Tony Arbour, has been saying. You, Mr Mayor, mentioned the A24 road which runs through Tooting in my constituency. In fact what is happening there is that the local authority, Wandsworth Council, has taken up the management of the pavements particularly which is really very important to the people of Tooting --

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

That was an interesting discussion and I do agree with Gareth that retro fitting, from an environmental point of view, is actually slightly friendlier because you are not generating a new vehicle so that is a good idea. Having brought up this topic of the massive fines that we could face, the Green group was raising this right from the beginning of the start of the Assembly so it long predates your mayoralty. The fine could be enormous unless we get some sort of big idea about cleaning up the air. Retrofitting cars: great; trees: really good idea; stop the...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

In some ways Gareth has stolen my thunder in promoting the Environment Committee report but I am glad to see, Mayor, you become very enthused after your trip to Seoul --

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

I know my colleague has already highlighted the attempt to deflect the blame for the potential EU fine. Will you just confirm this is a nationwide fine and not just a London based fine?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

We have had a splendid summary of various pieces of evidence given to the Environment Committee which Gareth Bacon has been taking us through but, Mr Mayor, are you aware of some other evidence given to the Environment Committee that apparently air quality improves when cars travel over 20 mph? Because of my position on the Transport Committee this especially interests me and I am sure my colleagues on the Transport Committee. What do you think of it, Mr Mayor? Can you ask the Government working party to go a bit further into this because it is rather an important...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Do you agree with me that what you and many authorities are doing, not only in London but nationally, in celebrating St George's Day is far more different and very welcome than those people who are promoting St George's Day to pursue the politics of hatred and racism?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Organising for Delivery. Mayor, you have always said that you wanted to slim down City Hall. You made that clear right from the start and you have just said now you want to be able to concentrate on what really matters. Yet looking at the proposals the environment team staffing seems to go down from 39 posts to 20 posts. That is rather a jump, is it not?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

I hear what you say about the encouragement of tourism largely in response to London First but have you not missed a trick just recently to boost London tourism by encouraging the Indian Premier League (IPL), to come here and should you not have been on the ball on this one a lot earlier because that would have been a substantial boost not just for London but the UK economy?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 25 March 2009

Good morning, Mayor. I have to applaud you without question on the fact of putting finance - hopefully £100,000 plus - into St George in London. I have to say at the same time I thought it was normally the routine, if you do plagiarise someone's idea, to give them some sort of credit rather than kicking them in the backside. I believe it is the British National Party that picked up both of our flags and our patron saint for England, put him back on the streets and gave him to the people so the idea that you are...