• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The key issue here is, have we got the people now, from the local areas, all trained and ready to do those jobs or are we going to wait until construction starts and, therefore, people are saying, 'Where is my job? I was promised a job and there is nothing there', but they can do this little apprenticeship and hope to get a job in the long term?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I am just a little bit concerned, because when you speak to people locally on the construction site and just generally, certainly in the two boroughs that I represent, there is a feeling that a lot of the workers there are not local, indeed are not even from England. There is just this growing twittering about workers from the rest of Europe. How are we going to get the sort of information that you have just shared with us out into the public domain, because it is a matter of concern?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

One of the concerns that would be expressed, of course, is that the employers, when they move into both the Olympics area and Stratford doing that development, want a pool of skilled labour ready and able to do the jobs. Can you report on the numbers that are now in training, ready to do the jobs when the development starts in earnest?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

We will keep monitoring?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Yes, because I hope you do agree with me and certainly others that the promise about the legacy in terms of jobs and skills has to be realised within London, and especially within the five boroughs, and so we have to keep on top of the monitoring.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The reason I asked the question is because I went to an event that the Metropolitan Police Traffic Unit had laid on and they had these convex close proximity mirrors fitted to the front and side windows of lorries and if you went and sat in the seat you just saw what little you could see below. They targeted this particularly at cyclists. A cyclist could see what the lorry drivers were not able to see. One of the officers there said that they had been trying to talk to Transport for London to fit these onto buses - not...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Could we extend that to all buses as well; not just bendy buses but to standard buses as well?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Mr Mayor, I want to know which side of the fence you are sitting on vis-à-vis the police pay award. Are you with the Home Secretary for it to be phased in or are you with the Police Federation that it should be paid in full immediately from last September?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Can I just intervene here, just to be accurate about this. You have been talking about the GLA and the Mayor undertaking an inquiry; I am not disputing what Richard Barnes is saying; indeed there is reference to an inquiry by the LDA. They are parallel perhaps, but separate.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Mr Mayor, we are not going to take much in lectures on morality from you, when you have just reduced yourself to the gutter of municipal politics. Yesterday you made a filthy allegation against a colleague of mine in the course of your press conference, which I hope you might form in a phrase which will make it actionable at some point; now you seek to attack somebody who no longer has any connection with the Authority; before that you accused any journalist who criticised you of being a racist. Why not just answer the blooming question and say whether...