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• Reference: 2018/3547
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 01 November 2018

Tony Arbour AM (Chairman): We now move to today’s main item of business, a question and answer session with the Mayor and with Cressida Dick [CBE QPM], the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on policing in London. Welcome to the meeting. There are four lead-off questions and Assembly Members may ask supplementary questions after each question has been answered. Before asking the lead-off questions, the Assembly will receive a short opening statement from the Mayor and from the Commissioner of up to five minutes in total. Would you like to start, Mr Mayor?

• Reference: 2018/2507
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

When were you first told that the central section of Crossrail would not open in December 2018, and who told you?

• Reference: 2016/4973
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What do you see as the greatest issues/challenges facing London?

• Reference: 2016/4974
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

What progress are you making on delivering the Mayor's manifesto commitments on housing'?

• Reference: 2015/3981
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

In light of the similar responses from the Mayor, Assembly and Fire Authority to the Government's consultation 'Enabling closer working between the Emergency Services', what impact do you envisage the dissolution of LFEPA and the establishment of a Deputy Mayor for Fire and Emergency Planning would have on the London Fire Brigade?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Mayor John Biggs AM: Thank you very much for your earlier answers. I obviously have a parochial interest as the Assembly Member for East London. Particularly Newham but also Tower Hamlets have been adversely affected by the closure of fire stations and the loss of appliances. In your current proposals, potentially we lose another three appliances in Poplar, Plaistow and Stratford and a fourth nearby in Shoreditch. Can you tell us what the cumulative impact would be on residents in my constituency in East London and whether there would be more areas that will fall outside the six-minute response time...

• Reference: 2015/3549
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

What more will you be doing to ensure that Outer London sees an increase in visitor footfall?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Mayor John Biggs AM: I would like to be in a position to apologise for some fellow Members of the Assembly. I will start by thanking you enormously for the work you have done and for the very thorough way in which you answered the question you were asked, while recognising that there is a significant minority of people who believe it was the wrong question and that there are quite a lot of other people who seek elected office - and maybe occasionally I am a bit like this - and who would like to pretend that the desire...

• Reference: 2015/1564
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

With the Metropolitan Police Service needing to make £800m in savings, it will become increasingly vital that it can deliver more with less. What role does technology have to play in providing London with a police force fit for the 21st century?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, I do not like to kick a man when he is down, but I am always willing to make an exception in the case of the Liberal Democrats. You have mentioned Nick de Bois’ attempts to introduce mandatory prison sentences for second offences of possession of a knife. Do you recall that it was in fact the Liberal Democrats who opposed that amendment?