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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: 10 February 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Just on that particular point, do you think there is any danger, therefore, of the Western Extension of the Congestion Charge being revived?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Given that this is my final TfL plenary it would be remiss of me not to go through the annual ritual of raising step‑free access at a particular Tube station that has more people passing through it than Gatwick Airport every year, which is of course South Kensington. This is probably my eighth attempt to try to get some movement on this particular issue. I wondered if any progress had been made on allowing disabled people, people with prams and other vehicles that would like to access those incredible cultural assets, as well as the residents...

• 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...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Sir Howard, I wanted to ask a little further about night flights. When we last met when you appeared in front of the Assembly, you revealed to me, as somebody who lives under the flight path, this surprising idea that no flights land at Heathrow between 6.00am and 6.20am and that there was a moratorium on that. Since then, Heathrow rather helpfully produces on its website the actual landing times of flights and, of course, there are dozens and dozens of flights that land between 6.00am and 6.20am every single morning, including this morning. Would you...

• 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?