• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Thank you. Hopefully, with time, I have two lines of questions. The first one is that there was a lot of criticism before the last Mayoral election that the Mayor's Office used the LDA as a piggybank, if you like, for various projects, and there was a lot of heat about this, and I think you put in place processes, which I broadly support, for making sure that there is clarity about those relationships, but we have had so far, I think, two directions from the Mayor's Office. The first one was to spend money on sports infrastructure, which you...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

I want to concentrate on the Economic Recovery Action Plan. What proportion of the LDA initiatives referred to in that action plan consist of new measures? Just roughly and not down to the finest detail. What are actually new measures in that recovery plan in terms of the challenges we face? Who is going to answer?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Can I go back to the surplus, Mr Rogers. I am a great fan of yours and I know how good you are at cutting out unnecessary expenditure, and I am in a way delighted you have got a surplus, but also I have similar reservations to Ms Shawcross. I am a great believer that if we have raised tax, we should actually spend it and not stash it away in the bank. Are you examining any projects that you have previously turned down to now spend your surplus?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that had the British Airways flight that crash landed just within the perimeter of Heathrow a year ago landed 800 yards short of where it eventually landed we would not be having this conversation about "if", we would be having a conversation about "when" we move Heathrow Airport? If the third runway is announced and Heathrow continues in its position when an airliner ploughs into the suburbs of west London would you please take the opponents of the estuary airport and the Members of the Labour Group with you when you go to...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

I am intrigued by the answers we have had so far today. I would like to ask the Mayor specifically, in your manifesto, Getting Londoners Moving, you say, "I will commission a trial of orbital express bus routes for outer London." When are you going to be commissioning that trial?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

One of the problems that is coming to light in my corner of town and which no doubt is replicated elsewhere is that, as the Government closes services in hospitals and centralises them on other sites, people are having to travel further to access essential medical services. However, there seems to be no thought given by the Government at all to public transport or to parking or to how they are going to get to those hospitals. Would transport to hospitals for people who need it be considered as part of your orbital bus service strategy so the buses are...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

To follow on from James' comment on what are we going to do to help businesses at this time and in view of the success of the Congestion Charge free period between Christmas and New Year, would you consider some other schemes like that during the forthcoming? There are options. You did talk again, back to your manifesto, about flexibility.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

Could I just ask Mr Hendy about the organisational steps he is taking to improve TfL's response to members of the public and Members of this Assembly when they raise concerns with him. I think the picture has got better, to be fair. London Underground were usually pretty good, the buses have improved considerably and it has been a long journey. Streets have got better certainly on my patch. There are parts of TfL - and I am thinking of the smaller, standalone units like the Public Carriage Office and, famously, Dial-A-Ride at the moment - where I think a...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

For the Commissioner, while we are back on the management issues that we were talking about earlier, since TfL has taken over the control of Crossrail and the former Metronet contracts, what action are you taking to ensure or improve the scrutiny and accountability of the various decision-making processes in view of the size now?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 June 2009

My question is to the Mayor. The Commissioner has explained the virtues of an integrated structure under the Mayor but one thing you do not have control of is the full funding of schemes such as Crossrail. I would like to know if you would disassociate yourself from your former colleagues, including Members of Parliament from Croydon, who attempted to cancel Crossrail this week by voting against a vital part of its funding?