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• Reference: 2011/2385
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Do you believe Metropolitan Police morale and operational effectiveness would be adversely affected should the recommendations of the Winsor report on pay and conditions be implemented?

• Reference: 2011/2387
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

How would you counter John O'Connor former Flying Squad Commander who claimed 'the Met is a rudderless ship" and added: "I have never known anything like this in the history of the Met'? Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Blair commented that 'the resignation of two successive Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police in just over two and a half years indicate that something is gravely wrong with political oversight and governance of the Metropolitan Police'! Do you think Londoners have lost confidence in your stewardship of the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2011/2388
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Whilst there was a welcome 3% reduction in bike thefts last year, there are still over 61 bikes stolen every day! Do you think this continued menace is hampering your efforts to see more people cycling in London?

• Reference: 2011/2389
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Some constituents have written to me unhappy that in such straitened economic times, you saw fit to raise the salaries of two of your advisors by 55.45% and 33.82% respectively. Are you comfortable with how the London taxpaying public may perceive these huge increases with most seeing big falls in their standard of living?

• Reference: 2011/2391
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

In light of the huge hikes announced in Energy prices recently, how many Londoners are anticipated be in fuel poverty by April 2012?

• Reference: 2011/2392
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Have you received a response from the Home Office regarding the relaxation in strict vetting procedures for people wishing to become taxi drivers?

• Reference: 2011/2393
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Have the recent riots together with the attendance of 10,000 officers brought in to police the Notting Hill Carnival blown the annual MPS budget completely off course?

• Reference: 2011/2394
• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Are you in broad agreement with the Department for Transport in their support for a high-speed rail link from London to Birmingham and the North West operating via Euston Station?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would like to follow on from Roger'scomment, Mr Mayor. I believe, 30 years ago, in the Brixton Riots, it was primarily geared around sus laws (stop and search laws). That was the purpose of their discontent and protest. Have you or this office or the Metropolitan Police Service received any sort of protest concern from the rioters across London in the recent months, or is it simply as other people have mentioned, of wanton greed and violence?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 14 September 2011

Yes, I understand the question area, Madam Chairman. The comment that Joanne made in regard to the political vacuum statement by Mr Coleman was around the fact of the discussions about Plenary. If I understand this correctly, and correct me if I am wrong, Mayor, the constitution of the GLA allows the Acting Chairman or Chairwoman to call back the Assembly at any given time at all. We had people like Kit [Malthouse] here. We also had your deputy, Richard [Barnes] here, yet the Chair decided not to call back the entirety of the GLA. Can you find a reason...