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

Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that had the British Airways flight that crash landed just within the perimeter of Heathrow a year ago landed 800 yards short of where it eventually landed we would not be having this conversation about "if", we would be having a conversation about "when" we move Heathrow Airport? If the third runway is announced and Heathrow continues in its position when an airliner ploughs into the suburbs of west London would you please take the opponents of the estuary airport and the Members of the Labour Group with you when you go to...

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

I am intrigued by the answers we have had so far today. I would like to ask the Mayor specifically, in your manifesto, Getting Londoners Moving, you say, "I will commission a trial of orbital express bus routes for outer London." When are you going to be commissioning that trial?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

One of the problems that is coming to light in my corner of town and which no doubt is replicated elsewhere is that, as the Government closes services in hospitals and centralises them on other sites, people are having to travel further to access essential medical services. However, there seems to be no thought given by the Government at all to public transport or to parking or to how they are going to get to those hospitals. Would transport to hospitals for people who need it be considered as part of your orbital bus service strategy so the buses are...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

To follow on from James' comment on what are we going to do to help businesses at this time and in view of the success of the Congestion Charge free period between Christmas and New Year, would you consider some other schemes like that during the forthcoming? There are options. You did talk again, back to your manifesto, about flexibility.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

Could I just ask Mr Hendy about the organisational steps he is taking to improve TfL's response to members of the public and Members of this Assembly when they raise concerns with him. I think the picture has got better, to be fair. London Underground were usually pretty good, the buses have improved considerably and it has been a long journey. Streets have got better certainly on my patch. There are parts of TfL - and I am thinking of the smaller, standalone units like the Public Carriage Office and, famously, Dial-A-Ride at the moment - where I think a...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

For the Commissioner, while we are back on the management issues that we were talking about earlier, since TfL has taken over the control of Crossrail and the former Metronet contracts, what action are you taking to ensure or improve the scrutiny and accountability of the various decision-making processes in view of the size now?

• 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...