• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Apart from anything else, my question will demonstrate that there is no Ken Livingstone/Labour party love-in today. The Mayor: Here we go. John Biggs: It is a very simple question to answer: do you believe that a greater burden of scrutiny and transparency should have been applied to the grant to the National Assembly Against Racism, given that it is an organisation whose history is very closely aligned with your own political history, and that two of your policy advisers are leading lights of that organisation?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is it possible to aggregate what is spent on local policing and what is spent centrally, which is something that foxes us on the MPA?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is it possible to aggregate what is spent on local policing and what is spent centrally, which is something that foxes us on the MPA?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Angie Bray: Well, you do not seem to be able quite to bring yourself to side with Londoners on this occasion - The Mayor: I thought I just did! Angie Bray: Urging people not to strike is not the same as condemning the threatened strike. At the very least, could you do something to alleviate the misery of Londoners, if the strikes go ahead, and agree to arrange - we do have plenty of notice - extra car parking and more buses, to make sure that their day of getting around London is to some extent made easier?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

All that suggests that you ought to show some leadership to the workforce in the Tube, and state very clearly and publicly now that you oppose these strikes.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Can we have the cost of this exchange declared on somebody's election campaign expenses?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

That brings us back to the leadership issue. Does the Mayor not agree that it is the right week but the wrong method? Perhaps he would publicly advise the unions to use their power to tell their members to use the ballot box rather than making life impossible for people in London. Val was quite right: this is a dreadful week for children who are taking examinations.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Ask for coaches

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

The strikes will disrupt London for the best part of a week, and chaos during the week of GCSEs and A-levels is the last thing we want in London. Can you say exactly what you personally are doing to stop these strikes?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Mr Mayor, I can hardly speak, I am so shocked by your answer. [Laughter.] in my role as Deputy Chair, responsible for the pastoral care of some of our Assembly Members, I wonder whether you can help us. Given that the Conservative group on the Assembly fought very hard to avoid a rise in the council tax, and also spoke up bravely for an increase in police numbers, it seems to me that they face an unacceptable contradiction in the plans of their leaders, Mr Hague and Mr Portillo. How do you advise Mr Neill and his colleagues to deal...