• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Let us move on to some of the more interesting questions then. I am sure you would agree with me that a Mayoral adviser would probably have a desk, an office, a PA, an email account, would speak on your behalf at conferences, would write articles as your adviser and may even be designated Deputy Mayor. Where is this leading? There is such a person who is exercising all of those functions; they write articles in the newspapers - The Sunday Times last weekend: Sir Simon Milton. He was intended to be an adviser. Just for the record, for this...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

I am not a QC but I have read my Ladybird Book of the Law! My concern is that the reality is that he is a guiding hand if you like behind your administration and that in all reality he is acting as an adviser. It is simply a device to try to get around the law and it is quite embarrassing and quite unbecoming of an administration committed to openness'. Can I move on to the next question which is about -

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Mr Mayor, it seems so long ago but can you just remind us what your predecessor's policy was on the North Harrow ticket office closure?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

My local ticket office, the one about 200 yards from my front door, is Stepney Green and the ticket office there shuts at about 8pm on week days. Now, it is one thing to keep open ones which were threatened with closure. Are you going to extend until midnight the -

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can I have a clear commitment because the written response I got on the question mentioned postponement. You have not answered my question as yet today. When you say postponement, how long are you postponing this until? What does postponement mean?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Joanne McCartney (AM): An annual report was done on the London Living Wage and whether it needed to be raised at all and that report was due to be published during the election but obviously could not be. Will you undertake to actually release this report now and that if that report recommends raising the London Living Wage that that will take place with immediate effect?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

The GLA has a procurement policy and part of that procurement policy is that contractors should abide by paying their workers a London Living Wage. Will you make sure that in all your dealings in all the contracts that come out of this building that that is set in those contracts also?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Would you agree with me that, whilst the London Living Wage is important because obviously London is an expensive city to live in, there will also be a huge advantage to Londoners as a whole and to low paid Londoners in particular if more of London's wealth was kept within London and that would give us an opportunity to target more directly Londoners on the lower wage? Would you also agree that, in your position as Mayor, you need to highlight the unfair distribution of London's money to Labour heartland areas around the rest of the country?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Mr Mayor, whilst we are talking about Londoners on low incomes what do you make of the disparaging comments made about the poor of London by Richard Barnes?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can I ask you to focus particularly on south London in answering this question because unquestionably in south London we are seriously short of underground services and so in many cases the buses have to fill the gaps although obviously sometimes it is the surface rail. Your manifesto commitment to introduce new orbital services was very much welcomed in south London as you will, no doubt, have discovered during your many visits. I think it is important that the pilots go ahead. I think it is important that it is seen by the public, and indeed by the councils, that...