• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

These are three boroughs that have made it quite clear - and I have seen these when walking around, especially in Tower Hamlets. This came from the Daily Mail. Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Newham. The poster is here in the press of young people, Muslims, putting up these stickers on lamp posts saying you are entering Sharia zones. What are you going to do about this?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

You inherited reserves of £4.8 billion from the previous Mayor. That was part of a massive financial settlement negotiated by him, inherited by you from the Government to fund capital investment. The second part is the way TfL works, its reserves are partly for capital purposes; they're partly also because it is a massive revenue operation. It depends on fares' income, number of people travelling and what has happened in the last couple of years is that more people have travelled and paid more fare income that was anticipated which is why you have the leg room to not levy...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, you are putting the fares up. They are already too high and we will bring them down yesterday.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, will you, therefore, confirm that a cut in fares and the result of the ongoing affect on TfL's performance, it will mean that the multimillion pound upgrade to the Northern line, so desired of many of my constitutes and other colleagues on this side, just couldn't happen?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, one of the characteristics of the TfL budget over the last three years that has been of importance certainly to my residents and I know to the whole of London is that you directed TfL to maintain the funding for the police on the transport network and, indeed, augmented funding for the police over the last three years. Do you think that budget approaching £100 million, more police officers on the transport network, they will have 50 extra British Transport Police, would that be sustainable under a 5% cut?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Mr Mayor, will you please acquaint yourself with the precedent of your predecessor's cuts in investment by the Greater London Council (GLC) in the mid-1980s in order to keep the fares low and their contribution to the Kings Cross fire which killed 31 people?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

I am a little surprised, Mr Mayor, that Caroline Pidgeon and Valerie Shawcross, who have asked some very detailed questions today, did not ask them to you in written form, where they might be able to get detailed answers. Do you share my surprise that they didn't even raise them at the Transport Committee yesterday, which they chaired and deputy chaired, when they had the Commissioner of Transport, Peter Hendy, in front of them? Maybe they thought them up overnight.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, it is interesting to listen to Jenny Jones and Val Shawcross and we all share a concern where there is an increase in accidents involving children, but isn't the reality that this a multi-agency issue? It is not just something which can be pinned on yourself, as well known as you are across London I know that you are not omnipresent at every school at going home time. There is a responsibility with the schools, with the children themselves and also with the parents. I am a governor at a couple of schools and...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Jenny and I have both had conversations with you about this because I think it is one of those things that falls below the radar. People do not notice. You have used the word 'slight' in two contexts there and I think neither are appropriate. The figures that TfL will give you will show you that. These are available on the website that since 2008 traffic accidents in London have been rising in some boroughs, Redbridge, there has been a 27% increase in one year of pedestrian accidents, in Bromley 19%, in Richmond 25%, in Ealing 21%. Something is clearly...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 October 2011

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, Murad Qureshi has raised this issue on fuel poverty a number of times. The question, which we skipped over which he was also posing, regarded air quality and CO2 targets. Now, I understand that there is a conflict in policy in achieving CO2 reduction and reducing fuel poverty charges because it is estimated some 15% of energy charges are so called green taxes. If we wished to impact everybody and list everybody in this capital city, could we recommend that the Government reduces the green tax on fuel? Would Murad then support you?