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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: Yes. Mr Mayor, I wanted to first of all thank you for the delicate process that is taking place around the East-West. Many of my residents are going through the consultation process at the moment. There are obviously various wrinkles that are alarming them, but we seem to be working our way through them. I wanted to ask you about the North-South at King’s Cross and what consideration you were giving to extending the Cycle Superhighway north of King’s Cross up towards Kentish Town and Belsize Park ‑‑

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: Mr Mayor, do you think it is appropriate for the former Mayor, who has encouraged the intimidation of public officials, to remain on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Mr Mayor, I am sure you are aware that this is a chestnut that the city has been chewing on for at least all of my political life in London, which is now, sadly, approaching 20 years, and that nobody has yet come up with a workable solution. However, are you aware that pedestrianisation has been tried in the West End before? Back when I was a councillor at Westminster, on the urging of the businesses in and around Soho to the south of Oxford Street, we put in a pedestrianisation scheme. We had rising bollards and it was closed...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I was going to ask you, Mr Mayor, how you define a journalist, but we are short of time and I will leave it there.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

Mr Mayor, obviously you will share my disappointment that having secured an exemption for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea just over 12 months ago, it has now been proposed to be removed. I am pleased to hear you are going to be lobbying for its retention. Would you agree with me, though, that the Government’s current approach to planning rules and regulations is creating a huge amount of uncertainty, not just for local authorities but also for the development community, and there may in fact be a break on development as developers and others wait for policy to...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 September 2014

On the Living Wage, this is obviously a cross-party campaign. While you very wisely adopted it and we have now hit and exceeded our target, are you aware of any Labour Members of the Assembly having written to a single employer in their constituencies or elsewhere urging them to participate in the scheme? Are you aware of any of them attending any of the launches, or congratulating any of the businesses, or attending any of the accreditation schemes for the Living Wage? Are you aware even of any of the London Labour MPs writing on the campaign, which incidentally the...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 June 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I just wanted to ask about this suggestion of shifting the number of night flights and opening this window from 5.40am to 6.00am. Presumably you are anticipating that the first touchdown would be at 5.40am, which means that the approach would be in the 15 to 20 minutes before that. Of course, that is when much of the noise pollution is occurring. For instance, I live in Islington and we get planes over us at the moment at about 5.40am or 5.45am because they are wheels-down at 6.00am. Have you taken into account that actually what you...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 June 2014

Kit Malthouse AM: I wanted to ask, in terms of the studies you do, whether you are looking at safety. Within living memory we have the Staines air disaster from Heathrow. It was only in 2009 I think that plane made it in over the fence, you remember, and crash-landed just on the apron. We have been lucky so far. The 118 people who died on the plane at Staines were not lucky but obviously you understand what I mean. I wondered whether you were looking at the possible impact or greater possibility of an impact of some sort of...

• Reference: 2014/1882
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 11 June 2014

Will you publish the current emergency response plans from the Metropolitan Police, the London Ambulance Service and the London Fire Brigade that will be put into action in the event of a major aviation disaster at Heathrow?

• Reference: 2014/1883
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 11 June 2014

In response to a previous oral question you undertook to ask the emergency services to consider the impact on their critical incident planning of extra capacity at Heathrow. Will you now publish their work?