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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 March 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Thank you, Chair. On the subject of step-free access, within the very welcome doubling of the allocation is there any money to bring step-free access to South Kensington, which, as you know, gets more people through it every year than Gatwick Airport and yet is inaccessible to large proportions of the population?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: I just wanted to clarify slightly on the point that you made on the police firearms policy. Am I right in thinking that there has been no change in police operations in firearms and that we do not have a ‘shoot-to-kill policy’; we have what is called a ‘shoot-to-stop’ policy? There is this idea that the police who are discharging their weapons at somebody who, presumably, is presenting a threat to either them or others would somehow try to clip the gun out of their hand or shoot them in the leg to disable them. They...

• Reference: 2015/2637
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Will the Mayor discuss with TfL the possibility of having opening windows on the next batch of Routemasters, in order to improve the air circulation?

• Reference: 2015/2638
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Before this year's Notting Hill Carnival, attendees were warned by Paul Gibson, London Ambulance Service Tactical Commander, not to take legal highs due to the potential for those consuming them needing emergency treatment. In one incident alone at this year's Carnival - police confiscated 400 canisters of nitrous oxide. Can you update us as to what steps you, MOPAC and the Metropolitan Police Service have taken to further discourage the use of legal highs in London?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: One of the key issues, of course, as well in terms of noise is station announcements at open stations like Earls Court, Sloane Square and some of the stations in Fulham. Are you going to have a ban on platform announcements during the night?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Mr Mayor, on this point about right-to-buy and private landlords, is it the case - I am sure you would remember - that it was a Conservative government that gave relatively wealthy people the right to buy when it introduced the leasehold format, to allow people to effectively compel landlords to sell the freehold of leasehold properties. This is a principle which is well-known in London. Presumably you would agree that the same rights that are granted to those relatively wealthy people should be granted effectively to social housing tenants. Effectively social housing tenants have a...

• Reference: 2015/2213
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Many residents and businesses say that they are constantly promised that their internet speeds will be increased, but in fact there has been very little progress. Can the Mayor therefore give a borough by borough update on what is happening with the installation of fibre optic broadband in London?

• Reference: 2015/2214
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Could the Mayor confirm when the London Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, London Overground train line will have a 4 train an hour service from 6.00am to Midnight?

• Reference: 2015/2215
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Will the Mayor confirm that he understands the importance of allowing councils to opt out of converting commercial premises to residential in order to maintain a mix and to continue to offer opportunities for local employment and encourage business growth?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 15 July 2015

Victoria Borwick AM MP: Thank you. Mr Mayor, just to take us back briefly to that other point, I am sure you were as delighted as I was that this Government undertook to honour Simon Stevens’ [Chief Executive Officer, NHS England] request for £8 billion in funding and to ring-fence the NHS funding. Just to put any clarification on the previous comments that were made, we have had an assurance that the NHS funding would continue and that Simon Stevens’ request will be met in full.