• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Mr Mayor, would you feel that you could support a marriage where one of the parties in that marriage was deeply opposed to the marriage? A forced marriage, if you will.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

I wanted to come in because Andrew's [Boff] raised the issue of affordable rents for markets and you can see we have representatives from Wards Corner Coalition, the Latin American Market here as well. I met with them this week and one of the things they are concerned about is ongoing rents should development go ahead on the site. I know that it is within your planning ambit at the moment so you cannot comment on the planning application itself, but could I ask you to agree that Ian Clement [Deputy Mayor, Government Relations], who you have delegated this decision...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

This is a much wider problem than simply street markets. Traditionally being under the arches or on land which is owned by transport undertakings has always been the first stop for small entrepreneurs setting up in their businesses. I receive representations from TfL tenants in Stamford Brook who believe that the increases in their rent are very substantial and under current circumstances unaffordable. Can I put it to you, Mr Mayor, it is better to have some rent from an occupied premise than no rent from someone because the business has been driven out by the policies of TfL? Would...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Yes, I do. I have now obviously read your document and in it you claim that your new Routemasters will be introduced in 2011, but really, looking at the detail, what it says is one prototype vehicle you may be able to deliver by the end of 2011.

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

I would not have come in but I noticed the indignation of Members of the Labour Group about your consultation, or lack of consultation of Greenwich Council over the Bridge episode. Could I ask you, Mr Mayor, did Transport for London share with you the consultation method of your predecessor over the ending of the Blackwall Tunnel tidal flow which they carried out with Greenwich Council?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 12 November 2008

Yes, the various ideas which you corrected in the transport document were surely ghost trains rumbling around London; the ideas which the previous Mayor had put up were spurious hopes which were not going to be delivered and were extremely misleading, like the Cross River Tram, the whole idea of building that where there was absolutely insufficient funding in place as indeed my colleague, Brian Coleman, pointed out at the Transport Committee a couple of months ago a completely bonkers idea and really very seriously misleading to the people of South London.

• 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...