• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Obviously there has been a lot said about the legacy for the five London boroughs that will host the Olympics, and rightly so because they are going to bear the brunt of the disruption, but everyone in London is paying for it. What steps are you taking to ensure there will be a legacy for all of the London boroughs?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Mr Mayor, are you familiar with any borough at all that does not realise that there is a need to build houses in London and that London's housing problem is as much borough housing problems? Perhaps Mr Tuffrey is leading us up an alarmist path here?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Can you confirm that one way of boroughs reaching their various housing targets is if they are doing a state renewal and knocking down an existing council estate they will be counting any replacements as part of these targets? If that is correct, will you then separate out the figures in terms of recording in the future so that we can see what is replacement rather than what is new and additional to social housing?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

In Havering and Redbridge, and no doubt in other outer London boroughs as well, I know we have some concerns about targets which are just set for numbers of housing rather than for quality of housing. A lot of campaign local groups are concerned as well. I notice Barkingside 21 have joined us in the audience today and they campaign on this subject quite often. We are all too often forced to allow large blocks of small flats and they may look good from the outside but they are actually not very good in terms of living conditions. Can you...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that if on 17 January this year BA flight 038 had come down 800 yards short of where it actually crash landed at just over the perimeter of Heathrow we would not actually be arguing about re-siting the airport, we would be discussing where the best place to put it is?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Mr Mayor, I think five polyclinics are currently being developed. Are you being kept informed by the primary care trusts (PCTs) or by the London National Health service (NHS) about the five and how they are progressing?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Richard Tracey (AM): I cannot believe though that the august members of Westminster City Council can believe that a solid traffic jam and, as you say, this throbbing steel block in Oxford Street is of any advantage at all because it is causing horrendous pollution, surely, as well as damaging the shopping experience for people in Oxford Street. Can I put to you that as I think about 20% of contracts do revolve each year, this could be a chance to get in there now and perhaps cut down on some of these routes that my colleague, Victoria Borwick, has...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

As the Constituency Member, Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that one of the secrets of London's success and indeed its continuing vibrancy is a strong residential population right in the heart of the city? Across Europe and indeed the UK we have seen many cities fall into decay because the residential population has evacuated from the centre and left it dead and lifeless, particularly in the evenings and at weekends. Therefore any alteration to the bus routes in Central London, and particularly around Oxford Street, should take into account, as a priority, the impact it will have on...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

Mr Mayor, when you make the changes to the bus routes in Oxford Street can you just assure me that you will be confident that the passenger information that is available will be changed to update the timetable for people? I say this because on a route in my patch, the 462, we have been trying for ages to get the timetables on the stops to reflect what has actually been done to change the bus service and it has not been done. It seems like a minor point but misinforming passengers is something we should avoid doing.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 15 October 2008

I just wanted to add one further point, Mr Mayor, for your consideration which is one of the big issues around rerouting of bus routes of course is the noise that they cause and, in particular, whether you can address the problems with the new Volvo bus that was introduced under the previous administration which sounds like the Red Arrows taking off whenever it takes off from a bus stop. I speak as somebody who used to live on a bus route into which the Volvo bus was introduced and decided to move specifically because of the noise that the...