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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: 2016/0380
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

What are you leaving in the in-tray for your successor?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you. The Mayor has just said there would be a plan to cut £2 billion from TfL by another candidate, whose name I will not mention. I have seen media reports of £1.9 billion, which the media have been attributing to TfL. I would like to ask the Commissioner, Mr Brown, is that a figure, either the £2 billion or the £1.9 billion that TfL has come up with? Was it from a TfL source? Do you own that figure? Then I would like to ask you about the assumptions behind it.

• 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?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: You mentioned earlier, Commissioner, collaboration with other emergency services and so I just wanted to ask both of you about the co-responding model. I have seen it operate successfully in rural areas with retained firefighters, but of course the dynamics of serving a very sparse rural community are very different from London. What is your view on whether or not co-responding is an appropriate model for London at all, both of you?

• 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?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Given the comments you made earlier about the importance of major events and sporting events, do you not think that the last‑minute withdrawal from the Tour de France Grand Depart, a decision that was taken at the end of September, damaged not just our relationship with France and our good reputation as an events host but also was a rather big loss of tourist promotion opportunities? Do you not think that was a very un-coordinated and badly made decision?