• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

My question is to the Mayor. The Commissioner has explained the virtues of an integrated structure under the Mayor but one thing you do not have control of is the full funding of schemes such as Crossrail. I would like to know if you would disassociate yourself from your former colleagues, including Members of Parliament from Croydon, who attempted to cancel Crossrail this week by voting against a vital part of its funding?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

Peter, could I just draw you back into the quagmire of Metronet for a moment. I wondered two things. First of all, obviously anybody who looked at the structure of Metronet - and I am glad you agree - could see that it was crackers right from the start and was going to end in disaster. Given that the magic circle of contractors who owned Metronet were effectively awarding contracts to themselves and therefore that structure was going to collapse at some cost, are those same contractors still performing work on the lines on Metronet? If so, are they doing...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

A very simple question to the Mayor. Would you agree with the Conservative Party that the Supplementary Business Rate is a stealth tax other than when it applies to London?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Mr Mayor, you will no doubt be aware that Mr McKee was at one time the Chief Executive of Merton Council in my constituency and so therefore already knows quite a bit about the outer London boroughs. Can you give us a bit more detail about how the outer London boroughs in general should contribute to the appointment of the members of this Commission? Because I think apart from the three members from the boroughs that you have mentioned to my colleague, Roger Evans, there is a worry that we will see a few too many planning academics and so...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Mr Mayor, how many extra police cells are you going to be laying on for New Years' revellers when you implement your ban on alcohol on public transport? You have obviously not thought about it.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Thank you, Mr Mayor. Just a couple of simple questions. Would you agree with me that Territorial Policing is not the only Metropolitan Police Service command that provides 'frontline' police officers?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

I am surprised by some of Nicky's questioning because of course those of us who have been here since the start of the Authority know that as Deputy Mayor she presided over the writing of the London Plan that we have now with its 'pile them high, sell them expensive' approach to flats in London. It is great to see change being promised and I hope that we will see it. Certainly in Havering we are having problems with a lack of people wanting to do developments at the moment because of the affordable housing targets they are being required...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Yes, but we already have Parker Morris; in fact Parker Morris Plus for public housing, Social Rented Housing. We do not have it for intermediate or for private homes and you in this Chamber said on exactly that point that you were going to rectify this. Your Housing Strategy actually emphasises that we need to improve space standards across all tenures.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Mr Mayor, just coming back on the point that Mr Biggs made, would you concede that all across London there are housing developments which are so below reasonable standard that they are just not capable of being occupied and for those to be torn down and replaced with good quality, habitable homes is in fact a big step forward and a big step towards meeting the increase in social housing and affordable housing that I think everyone around this Chamber seeks.

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

Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that there is often selective blindness around some of the so-called improvements that were proposed in London, in particular around Parliament Square, and one of the drawbacks of the scheme as proposed was that it was sending thousands more cars a year ploughing through one of the biggest social housing estates, the Peabody Estate along Marsham Street? Therefore if anything, overall road safety would have been decreased rather than increased particularly since it was going through an area where there were two primary schools and a large number of families with young children...