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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 July 2013

Mr Mayor, do you think it is unfortunate that the impression might be left with people in the debate about undercover police officers that the operation of undercover is completely unsupervised by anybody and it might be worth emphasising therefore to the public that since 2000 we have had the Office of the Surveillance Commissioners who do inspect on a regular basis all approvals and operations that are taken on an undercover basis, and indeed all intrusive police operations that require surveillance of some type? Given that office is staffed entirely by former judges, all of whom are independent, do...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Professor, it is very interesting, what you have been saying this morning. Obviously the restrictions on borrowing by local authorities were loosened in 2003. I hesitate to be political about it, but the strict introductions that were introduced in the 1980s were in response to irresponsible borrowing by a number of local authorities, not least Liverpool and Hammersmith and Fulham, interestingly, and also I think the interest rate swap debacle where Hammersmith and Fulham lost the case on their treasury management and got into all sorts of trouble. The reason that the Government introduced those restrictions back...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Very pleased to hear you mention hydrogen because of course you may want to remind Members that we do have a zero-emission bus fleet currently running; has been running for two or three years, the RV1 that runs along Tooley Street, which is entirely powered by hydrogen fuel cells and that, I am sure you would agree with me, hydrogen technology presents a very strong prospect for the future given the load-to-power ratio that you identified as a problem with batteries. Would you join me in congratulating Aston Martin who just had a hydrogen car complete the...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, do you think there may be a case to be made that all the impositions that are now being placed on developers from the Social Housing Requirement Section 106, stamp duty, corporation tax, all the rest of it, that this is all adding up to quite a large bill that may well be chocking off development in London rather than easing it?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 May 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, while I applaud my colleagues' endeavours over cautions and looking at Metropolitan Police Service data over the last few years. Would you also agree with me that while it is dangerous to talk in absolute numbers, it is often dangerous to talk in average percentages and that actually there may be characteristics of London which mean that an average percentage sanction detection rate is also deceptive? For instance, Mr Mayor, if you looked at homicide as a crime, I think you would find that the Metropolitan Police Service's sanction detection rate is well up into...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Yes. Mr Mayor, when you provide Caroline Pidgeon with the data about these 330 junctions, could you also include data as to how many accidents there have been at those junctions involving blind people?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): Mr Mayor, given that political campaigning and political advertisements are banned on London public transport, do you think it is appropriate for Heathrow to be advertising so as to try to influence the Davies' [Airport] Commission on the Tube at the moment?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 20 March 2013

Kit Malthouse (AM): I just wanted to ask you about what you said regarding two crime types that were moving in the wrong direction. One was sexual violence and domestic violence.

• Reference: 2013/0468
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 25 February 2013

How many vehicles were registered for the greener vehicle discount from the Congestion charge in each of the last 36 months, including January 2013? How many such vehicles entered the congestion charge zone in each of those months? How many vehicles of all types entered the zone in each of those months?

• Reference: 2013/0469
• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 25 February 2013

How many vehicles currently registered in London will qualify for the ultra-low emission vehicle discount from the Congestion Charge?