• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Yes, but you said your advisers demonstrate that the topics they cover are very important priorities. When is the environment going to be a very important priority for you?

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

Were the job descriptions of the Mayor's previous appointees any use to you?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can I explain where I am coming from on this issue? You were very critical before of what you called a Mayor and his coterie advisers, of sofa style government, of cronyism, of lack of accountability -- It is all in here. It is all in here. You might care to reread it: Making London's Mayor Accountable. You made a number of promises and what has happened is confusion. In the public's mind a Mayor is elected, and they are clear what a director and an adviser do, and you have confused those. Because most people think Mayors are elected...

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

My heart goes out to the people on the other side of this Chamber who, whilst passionate, clearly are so blinkered they cannot envisage a style of administration other than the one they have witnessed over the last eight years. As I say, that is quite heartfelt concern for them. Would you agree with me that on the elections of May of this year the people of London voted for a change; a change not just of individual but a change of style of government? I applaud the fact that you have embraced that change. Also, may I remind you...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

All I want is a Mayor who is accountable to Londoners who does what he says he is going to do and he said there would be a Cabinet and either there is going to be a Cabinet or there is not. So tell us.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Dee Doocey (AM): Thank you very much. That is very helpful. If I could just give you a tiny bit of background, the case that was drawn to my attention by a mother is three secondary school girls who were at a bus stop having just had a meal at 9 pm, waiting to go home when they were filmed by the police. There were all sorts of difficulties getting the information from the police. I have since had some information from the Metropolitan Police Service saying that it is perfectly legal for them to do this and that there...

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

Roger Evans (AM): Excellent. Good. It sounds like it was a fortuitous question. Can I prevail on you as well about Gants Hill Station? Obviously since the Metronet collapse a lot of the station refurbishments got put back and we are concerned about the Gants Hill Station refurbishment being put back. You visited there during the campaign and you saw the condition of the area and the efforts the council and local traders are making to really make it a good place to live and work. We do not want to be held up because the station has been delayed...

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

First of all, thank you for your intervention and can you please thank Kulveer Ranger, your Director of Transport, who took this up and got an extremely detailed and very positive response from Transport for London Streets. Since then I have to say there has been a meeting of the local business partnership on 13 June. Their minutes state that the members of the partnership were most complimentary about the pace of work, the quality of the crew, the revised working schedules and the overall appearance and control of the site, which they certainly were not before you intervened. So...

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

I take it this is with immediate effect? Presumably when you were out looking for the illegal mini cabs you may also have talked to some members of the public, including particularly women, who are really scared by the presence of illegal mini cab touts and by the sort of activities that often go on?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

I am pleased very much that you have made this link between the illegal mini cabs and violence against women. I know last week you went out in a cab with the Chief Executive of Croydon's Rape Crisis Centre, Yvonne Traynor , and I know you visited the Centre which is, shamefully, the only centre in London which deals with rape victims. Also, connected to that - and I am pleased with your commitment to extend the number of rape crisis centres to four throughout London - I would like to draw your attention in Croydon to the Domestic Violence...