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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Mr Mayor, obviously you will share my disappointment that having secured an exemption for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea just over 12 months ago, it has now been proposed to be removed. I am pleased to hear you are going to be lobbying for its retention. Would you agree with me, though, that the Government’s current approach to planning rules and regulations is creating a huge amount of uncertainty, not just for local authorities but also for the development community, and there may in fact be a break on development as developers and others wait for policy to...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

On the Living Wage, this is obviously a cross-party campaign. While you very wisely adopted it and we have now hit and exceeded our target, are you aware of any Labour Members of the Assembly having written to a single employer in their constituencies or elsewhere urging them to participate in the scheme? Are you aware of any of them attending any of the launches, or congratulating any of the businesses, or attending any of the accreditation schemes for the Living Wage? Are you aware even of any of the London Labour MPs writing on the campaign, which incidentally the...

• Reference: 2014/2679
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Following on from the recommendations of the Assembly's "Moor or Less report" would the Mayor encourage the London Legacy Development Corporation to consider provision of moorings and boating facilities in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park?

• Reference: 2014/2680
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 23 July 2014

Following on from the recommendations of the Assembly's "Moor or Less report" to allow greater provision to be made of London's waterways, would the Mayor support the enumeration or mapping of moorings within the Greater London Area to help inform the London Plan?

• Reference: 2014/2413
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

Do you welcome the Muslim Council of Britain's recent announcement that FGM is "non-Islamic", "against the teachings of Islam" and that it is "putting the health of women and girls at risk"?

• Reference: 2014/2411
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

It was revealed that only 77 allegations of racism, from a total of 7,963 over an eight-year period, were upheld, and of these only three led to an officer dismissal. In most organisations this would be deemed a far more serious offence - what will you do to reassure Londoners that this issue is being dealt with effectively?

• Reference: 2014/2412
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

Over 300 children between the ages of 15-17 are in prison in London. Over a sixth are in for non-violent offences. Would you consider reviewing what other options there are for these often highly vulnerable children in these specific cases?

• Reference: 2014/2414
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 02 July 2014

Do you believe that London's taxi fleet should continue to have disabled accessible vehicles which also help tourists with cases, and families with prams?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 June 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I just wanted to ask about this suggestion of shifting the number of night flights and opening this window from 5.40am to 6.00am. Presumably you are anticipating that the first touchdown would be at 5.40am, which means that the approach would be in the 15 to 20 minutes before that. Of course, that is when much of the noise pollution is occurring. For instance, I live in Islington and we get planes over us at the moment at about 5.40am or 5.45am because they are wheels-down at 6.00am. Have you taken into account that actually what you...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 June 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I wanted to ask, in terms of the studies you do, whether you are looking at safety. Within living memory we have the Staines air disaster from Heathrow. It was only in 2009 I think that plane made it in over the fence, you remember, and crash-landed just on the apron. We have been lucky so far. The 118 people who died on the plane at Staines were not lucky but obviously you understand what I mean. I wondered whether you were looking at the possible impact or greater possibility of an impact of some sort of...