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• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 19 December 2012

Mr Mayor, I hope you would agree with me that any decisions around closures or otherwise of police stations should be based on evidence. So also should be the participation or otherwise of Assembly Members in particular campaigns around particular police stations. On that basis, will you give us all the evidence again and send every Assembly Member a copy of the footfall survey that was conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service around every single front counter, which might illustrate that Hampstead Police Station, for instance, I think from memory - I may be wrong - was getting an average...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Would you also though in considering your views about this bear in mind, Mr Mayor, that there are particular crime types that take place over a number of years that require the retention of DNA over that period. For example, Kirk Reid was apprehended six years after his first offence and of course the criminal who became known as the Night Stalker some 20 years after his first offence when DNA samples were taken. Therefore we have to bear in mind that particularly where sexual offences are concerned these linked series which are often hard to detect can take some...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Would you agree that one of the most valuable parts of the London Living Wage is the fact that, as you say, it is voluntary by employers and therefore it injects an element of moral obligation into running a business and that any prospect of naming and shaming employers that do not participate in the Living Wage is likely actually to have a detrimental effect on its progress in London, particularly amongst -small businesses?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 October 2012

Kit Malthouse (AM): Would you agree Mr Mayor that the one thing that would please Westfield, above all else, would be if there were fewer buses going to Oxford Street?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

Flying for the first time on Monday afternoon, in the middle of the afternoon, almost all the cars had people in; it was full. People were using it at volume and I found it an incredibly pleasant way to travel. I have asked you before, now that it us up and running, whether you would consider extending the cable car network across particular parts of London. It is a very pleasant and in fact social way to travel and it strikes me there are other parts of the city that could benefit, not just from a river crossing but from...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 04 July 2012

I welcome your policy towards mixed housing and mixed housing tenure, not least because as a representative of Central London I am aware that there is a strong tendency for Inner London to become a ghetto for the very rich and the very poor and that you are absolutely right, we need to support those people in the middle. Do you agree with me though that there will be more social housing available for the poor and middle income family if there were not council flats occupied by Labour former Cabinet Ministers or indeed very highly paid trade union leaders?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, thank you for the information relating to your transport arrangements during the games, but I wonder whether you would consider a variation. In my position as Chair of the London Hydrogen Partnership, we do have a scheme funded jointly by the European Commission to have five hydrogen fuel cell taxis which would be available for the Games, emitting nothing but water, completely emissions free, and they will be used to ferry various people around during the Games. One of them I think is going to be made available for your use, if you feel the need.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 22 February 2012

Mr Mayor, I just wanted to explore briefly this notion of police-generated crime. I know you are aware that almost 100% of what is classified as drug crime in the city is police-generated crime in terms of being a result of police action and therefore, presumably, you would welcome a rise in drug crime because that would be an indicator of an increase in police activity.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 14 December 2011

Mr Mayor, would you agree that when comparing police numbers over a period, it is helpful if you compare like with like, and that therefore when Assembly Member McCartney is comparing the number in 2008 with the number we have now, she has to take into account the change in the training regime. The number in 2008 will have included up to 1,000 trainees who were in the classroom at Hendon rather than out on the street, and that in the intervening year, we have had a change in the training model, which means we no longer have those trainees...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Notwithstanding Mr Arbour's comments about Barn Elms will you take this opportunity to reiterate your opposition to the re-opening of the consideration for an excavation site, Carnwath Road in Fulham, and the devestating --