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• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

After all we hear that emergency services are constantly under attack, from nurses, doctors, fire workers, police, all of this going on, it is a technical question. Outside of the appliances that the London Fire Brigade has, which are static in the sense they rely upon groundwater resource for the purpose of their functioning, how many units are there in London that are mobile water dispensers or water fighters in the sense they carry their own water supply with them?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

I think pretty much everyone has made comments on what has taken place, commending the police activity, but there is one situation. When the police, nationwide and in the MPS, are faced with social networking on football hooliganism or on certain political activities, they have sufficient information gathered over a ten-year period to move in there, undercover or uniform, and stop this. So, you are still suggesting there are not enough workings within the MPS to be able to work out the activity of social networking?

• Reference: 2011/2127
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Despite pouring vast amounts of taxpayers' money at various initiatives including Operation Blunt 1 and 2, Time for Action and Operation Daedalus, knife crime for 2010 was up 8% in London at 13,619 incidents! Why do you think this menace continues to increase on the streets of London and are Londoners being given poor value for money from the authorities charged with keeping London safe from knife crime?

• Reference: 2011/2128
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Would it be fair to comment that unless the judiciary bring in seriously tough laws for carriers and users of knives in violent confrontation, no amount of taxpayer funded initiatives are going to bring this problem under proper control? Do you think the proposed law of a 6 month mandatory sentence for carrying a knife goes far enough in your quest to bring this menace under control in London?

• Reference: 2011/2130
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

I understand Jack Straw has accused the police of selling 'road crash victims details' to personal injury lawyers, do you know if the Metropolitan Police have engaged in this practice?

• Reference: 2011/2131
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Data collected by the Health and Public Services Committee indicate that there are 20% fewer local authority-maintained toilets are 20% less than a decade ago. Are you concerned, given the expected thousands of extra visitors in a short period of time at next year's Olympic and Paralympics, that London's hygiene will be compromised due to a lack of public toilet facilities?

• Reference: 2011/2132
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

A recent report showed that the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the capital were taken by foreign-born migrants with a 150,000 fewer British born people in work in the capital. Are you concerned about this trend bearing in mind 126,500 Londoners have claimed benefit continuously for the last 10 years?

• Reference: 2011/2133
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

Apparently London councils failed to collect council tax totalling £116.8m in the last financial year, does this financially impact the Greater London Authority in any way?

• Reference: 2011/2134
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

By the time Rob Holden leaves Crossrail, his remuneration for 2 and a bit years service will be in the region of £1.7m, in your opinion has this been money well spent?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 July 2011

My voice is loud enough I do not need the camera, thank you very much, anyway. Mr Mayor, it does seem rather peculiar that the last question was about knife crime, as Joanne herself had to come forward with it, it does seem a bit peculiar that you sort of jumped the gun especially since the last four years I have mentioned to you and this Chamber again and again about knife crime. So the question is, and I think you are aware of it here, is do you really feel that the job you are doing is sufficient enough...