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• Reference: 2018/3547
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): We now move to today’s main item of business, a question and answer session with the Mayor and with Cressida Dick [CBE QPM], the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on policing in London. Welcome to the meeting. There are four lead-off questions and Assembly Members may ask supplementary questions after each question has been answered. Before asking the lead-off questions, the Assembly will receive a short opening statement from the Mayor and from the Commissioner of up to five minutes in total. Would you like to start, Mr Mayor?

• Reference: 2018/2507
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

When were you first told that the central section of Crossrail would not open in December 2018, and who told you?

• Reference: 2016/4973
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What do you see as the greatest issues/challenges facing London?

• Reference: 2016/4974
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress are you making on delivering the Mayor's manifesto commitments on housing'?

• Reference: 2015/3981
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

In light of the similar responses from the Mayor, Assembly and Fire Authority to the Government's consultation 'Enabling closer working between the Emergency Services', what impact do you envisage the dissolution of LFEPA and the establishment of a Deputy Mayor for Fire and Emergency Planning would have on the London Fire Brigade?

• Reference: 2015/3549
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

What more will you be doing to ensure that Outer London sees an increase in visitor footfall?

• Reference: 2015/1564
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

With the Metropolitan Police Service needing to make £800m in savings, it will become increasingly vital that it can deliver more with less. What role does technology have to play in providing London with a police force fit for the 21st century?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, I do not like to kick a man when he is down, but I am always willing to make an exception in the case of the Liberal Democrats. You have mentioned Nick de Bois’ attempts to introduce mandatory prison sentences for second offences of possession of a knife. Do you recall that it was in fact the Liberal Democrats who opposed that amendment?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Tony Arbour AM: You will have heard already this morning that the principal concern of the Assembly relates to change of use, particularly change of employment use. One of the areas where the Assembly has actually right across the board sought to encourage the Mayor to be more muscular, even than his natural inclinations might have taken him, related to the [Sharon] Bowles [Member of the European Parliament for South East England] reforms, which have already been referred to, on the loss of office space. In your answer, you have talked about that and you have talked about the changes...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 28 January 2015

Tony Arbour AM: Contrary to what you have heard, Mr Mayor, there are residents of London who think you have actually done a very good job on policing. My constituents show the highest levels of confidence in policing that there have ever been. They are grateful to the MPS for the very substantial reduction in crime that there has been and they are glad that they are able to feel so much safer. However, today we are discussing the police budget and I am concerned to know how it is that you propose in future years the budget gap is...