• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

It is not just the proportion of what is built but obviously it is the location. In an expensive borough like Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster or any of the central London boroughs it is constantly an argument. I do think most of us have stated before the view about the importance of mixed communities and I think the idea of people being offered a secondary location and less good housing for affordable targets is not right. I think we should try, where possible, to get the affordable housing on site and I would welcome your view or your support or...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

A question about affordable housing: would you agree with me - and, again, this is not meant to fetter your planning discretion - that there is a real problem where some of the London boroughs with high land costs are placing their homeless families in some of the London boroughs with low land costs, particularly Barking and Dagenham, where a lot of inner London boroughs are renting wholesale private rented accommodation to put homeless families which causes enormous social pressures in the destination borough whilst getting the home boroughs off the hook if you like? That has caused enormous difficulties...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Andrew Boff (AM): Mr Mayor, would you by any chance at some point in the future like to come to visit the development area in Hackney, just opposite the peace mural which you mentioned the other day at the Pride reception? If you would like to visit that area there you will see an example of a housing development that is taking place where a building of local importance to black heritage in Dalston was demolished despite local protest, that local residents have been largely ignored at their protests about this massive great big housing development being built and that...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Are you aware that the Liberal Democrats throughout London are scaremongering by advertising the closure of police stations and suggesting that police cover is going to be much more limited than it has been? Would you not agree that in any question on discussing the future of the police estate the most important thing is that police facilities should be where they are required, in the centre of communities, and that those facilities should be fit for purpose? In that light, will you undertake, when you become Chair of the Police Authority, to ensure that before any existing police station...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Here is an easy question. Could you answer yes or no whether you formally interviewed Mr Parker before his appointment as whatever he is currently called?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

The other development this weekend is your assertion of your planning responsibilities so in future we can ask you about any planning applications across London, you will have had a presentation on it and you will now know about it. What was your decision making then?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

If I could move on; would you agree with me - because I suspect you would although you might not want to own up to it - that a big change this weekend happened when you finally extricated yourself from the clutches of central office, given the chaos that they have presided over in your earlier number of appointments? My prediction is that you will lose another couple of advisers by the end of the year. Two have gone already. I think maybe four or five will have gone by Christmas. Would you accept that it has been chaotic and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Mr Mayor, did you get the impression, talking to the Secretary of State, that she appreciated the great value that the East London Line phase two would bring? It would complete the overground by linking the system up with Clapham Junction and also, of course, it would deliver considerable value to this government in rail projects. Because it would be complete so much earlier it would take the strain off Thameslink when all the heavy works begin particularly relating to Blackfriars Bridge.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

I have not read the whole of the Forensic Audit Report so I am not sure if that particular saga is in here. It is worthy of another volume. Can you assure us that you will consider anything that Mr Johnson and Ms Jones suggest to you a little more carefully than your predecessor did and thereby save Londoners money in such ridiculous circumstances?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Mr Mayor, can you assure us that the economic and development benefits which might come to the northern part of the London Borough of Bexley from a potential river crossing will be balanced against the concerns about increased traffic and increased pollution from other people within that borough?