• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Jennette Arnold (Chair): OK. We have four more speakers. I will take Assembly Member Copley. Tom Copley (AM): I wanted to ask you a few questions on Crossrail 2, which it is pleasing to note there is cross-party support for -- Jenny Jones (AM): No. Tom Copley (AM): -- or almost cross-party support for it. First of all, can you update us on discussions you have had with the Government since the election regarding Crossrail 2?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thank you very much for that. We will pick that answer over later. Thank you. The thing is I have a list here of lots and lots of meetings that happened between your advisor and officers and other meetings as well, but we still cannot see where exactly the recommendations in the Jacobs Report were rejected because the recommendations in the Jacobs Report were for a much safer system for cyclists. So at some point you are suggesting that your TfL director of surface whatever was the person who rejected that Jacobs Report and decided to go with the less...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Ok, I am grateful for that. I take it from your reply that the review will look at whether there are other lessons about the way we respond to anxieties without accident records. I share many of Jenny's [Jones] concerns, although I think we need to be cool and calm about this. If people are to blame, then they need to be held to account for that. But we need to see what happens as the inquiries are concluded. My final bit, though: I have cautiously welcomed the changes so far on the basis that they are temporary and they...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Assembly Member Jones, no. Sorry, Mr Mayor. You gave a detailed answer to the first question, which was great. You have had now enough time on this, so I want to move on. I just want to find the Standing Order that gives us the gap for the Commissioner who seemed to want to make a statement to come in. There is no Standing Order except that apparently I can make a ruling, so can I just ask the Commissioner if he just wanted to make a statement? He was giving an indication that he wanted to make a statement...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thank you, Chair. Obviously, this is in my constituency. I think the record shows that I raised concerns about this junction more than two years ago, long before there were any fatalities at the junction. My concerns were rebutted at the time. I am sure they were rebutted in good faith but I think that is partly because the methodology you apply seems to require people to be killed or seriously injured - and that is not yours; that is a Government methodology - before you start intervening to address concerns at a junction. Is it not the case that...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

No, I am concerned about the Bow Roundabout aspect. I know about the Newham problem and it is a problem. The reason I keep asking these questions - and I have had endless questions to you and lots of Freedom of Information requests of TfL - is because these decisions, especially when they result in the deaths of road users, in this instance two deaths in just over a month of cyclists, these decisions have to be accountable. They have to be transparent.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Lord Coe, lest the British public think that the only option they have is a Veggie Burger or a Big Mac, can you please assure both this Assembly and London, the wider public, that your food policy has achieved an enormous range of food outlets across the Park, that McDonald's have only two outlets, I understand, at the Park, and there are another 150 others? McDonald's, whilst having the monopoly of chips, as I understand, do not have the monopoly of food provision.

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

In terms of your business plan, can you explain how the Dow Chemicals sponsorship for the wrap complies with the IOC's Code of Ethics?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

This is a useful suggestion. As the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London have indicated, we have capacity problems with the mall and St James' Park. How about we route the marathon around the East End? That would help, would it not, enormously?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Earlier, in terms of the answers to the business plan - sorry, I really ought to caveat this before anyone says I am nitpicking. Amongst the many hundreds, possibly thousands of things that you have done well, and the things that Members are raising - and you cannot get any bigger cheerleaders for the Olympics, certainly on this side today, but in the past, it took a long time coming. Let us put those caveats aside. These issues: Bhopal, ticketing, transparency. Are they not just slightly tarnishing? I was a bit gobsmacked when a key programme like Dispatches - I...