• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Dear, dear, you really have lost it haven't you?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

So will that inquiry as far as you are concerned report in time for voters to make their choice about the way you run your Mayoralty?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am going simply on your own comments that what he did in relation to the agreed facts - not the matter that the lawyer is looking at - of what was stupid and that the emails were inappropriate and unacceptable. Just on those bases alone do you still intend to reappoint him?

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

With regards to the Metronet deal, I know there has been concern that this may have delayed work on station refurbishments, signalling and track work. At the last Mayor's Questions you gave a commitment that it was the signalling and the track work that you were most concerned about. Does the deal ensure that that takes place immediately and there is no further delay to any of that essential work?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Mr Mayor, obviously as you pointed out, the Assembly has been frustrated about not being able to ask Lee Jasper questions. When were you made aware of Lee Jasper's undeclared interests or failure to declare interests?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

So you do not trust the Chief Executive?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Mr Mayor, the arts funding that you have announced does not actually make up for the cuts, does it, that many arts organisations across London have suffered in Arts Council funding recently? I am thinking particularly of organisations like Community Focus, of which I am a Trustee, which provides arts services to the disabled community in North London. Will you be entertaining submissions from those organisations some of which, in my view, have unfairly been targeted by the Arts Council?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The key issue is about what you knew about the failure by Lee Jasper to declare outside business interests with key players in this whole scheme, and when you knew it. The key is when did you know that that was the position?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Ken, can you help me with this? John Ross told us that when he discovered that Mr Jasper had not declared certain interests he notified you of that fact. Did you make sure a formal report of that was made to the Authority's Monitoring Officer?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Can I suggest that if this person is to be genuinely independent and seen to be independent you involve the Assembly in the decision of who that person is. Certainly at the outset of this whole affair, back in December, we from the Liberal Democrat side, called for all these allegations to be put in truly independent hands for an investigation. You are probably regretting you did not take up that suggestion three or four months ago which would have avoided all the brouhaha in the meantime. So will you take up that suggestion; that it is a joint appointment?