• Reference: 2012/2023
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

How will you ensure that it is local community champions that carry the Olympic Torch when it reaches London on 21 July, and not employees of companies who have paid for the opportunity to carry the flame through their sponsorship deals with LOCOG or the IOC?

• Reference: 2012/2012
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Have you discussed your desire for greater Mayoral control of education in the capital with representatives from London Councils? If so, what was their response?

• Reference: 2012/1931
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

How many New Buses for London will be on London's streets by the Olympic Games?

• Reference: 2012/1925
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Given your commitment to the London Cycling Campaign's Love London Go Dutch principles are you confident that provision for cycle users in the new legacy Olympic Park will be equal to, or better than, those in the Netherlands?

• Reference: 2012/1922
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Is the cable car part of the public transport system or a tourist attraction?

• Reference: 2012/1899
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Will you ensure that any appraisal of the options for adapting or demolishing the Olympic Media Centre takes full account of the environmental implications, including the potential for wasted embodied carbon in the building?

• Reference: 2012/1888
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Will you be honest and transparent to Londoners and visitors about smog episodes during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games?

• Reference: 2012/0023-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

The Commissioner has said that he wants a new approach to stop and search. He told the Metropolitan Police Authority last year that he hoped to have a new policy in place for the New Year, and he told us last time he was here that that is still his view, but that there would be some consultation with communities and with ourselves and the stakeholders about that new approach. We have not heard of any consultation at the moment on what the new approach is, so could you just let us know firstly what the timescales are, what steps...

• Reference: 2012/0022-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

Jennette Arnold (AM): Chair, we did, with your support, want to just raise the issue about violence against women and girls, especially the domestic violence promise which we welcome from the Mayor. The Mayor said in his 2012 manifesto, 'I will work with the Police, Boroughs, National Health Service, Home Office and the Crown Prosecution Service to commission and fund a pan-London domestic violence service and maintain the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVA).' Those are Independent Domestic Violence Advocates. Now, I have two pages of questions so clearly I will not be able to address those, Chair. If...

• Reference: 2012/0021-2
• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

Joanne McCartney (Chair): Yes, I think we are going to have to move on now. Mayor, another pledge you made was to set up safer neighbourhood boards which was on a borough basis and you were going to amalgamate community police engagement groups, the Independent Custody Visitors Schemes and the Metropolitan Police Service Independent Advisory Groups. Steve, you wanted to ask some questions on this. Steve O'Connell (AM): This is a subject that is interesting a lot of people out there. Many of us spend probably too many hours on consultative groups and panels and the questions being asked by...