• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Mr Mayor, about the value of the Outer London Commission. I agree with the comments made about the important role that such a Commission can play. Can you confirm that this Outer London Commission will look very seriously at the major issues facing Outer London boroughs like the regeneration, serious traffic and transport issues, orbital public transport issues, a much greater mix of family sized accommodation and the issue about open spaces, particularly recreational and playground, for the family sized accommodation?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I really wanted to reinforce the Mayor's comments. We are nine months into the first term. The outer London boroughs were sadly neglected by the previous administration of eight years. We now have a recognition of the importance of all of London. I confirm and agree with the comments around the make up of the Commission, although I am slightly more content, but I would be wouldn't I, because there is a Croydon representation! I think it is a major step change. This is to be welcomed. It is actually being put in place at pace and I look forward...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

This is partly for the record but you can respond to this. We would firmly support you going to Mr Mandelson on this matter but I think, for the record, the GLA has in its resources a turnover of £13 thousand million a year and, within that, you are not, to my knowledge, spending a single jot on pursuing this internally. Indeed the London Development Agency (LDA) has in its recent reprioritisation reduced the amount of funding in support for small and medium enterprises in London. I think you need to put Londoners' money where our mouths are. I agree...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

At that same meeting where we discussed air quality and the non-continuation of the phase 3 LEZ, Dr Kelly from Kings College told us of the research that has been done in California and is being done here to show that young Londoners' lungs - that is 0 to 18 - are smaller and irrevocably damaged if they live close to traffic gridlocked roads. So vehicle fumes are really, really important. There is a way that you can win this. I know democracy is arbitrating between conflicting freedoms and here we want to put children before property. However, there is...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I wonder if you are aware that from a hard green point of view - as opposed to wispy green - the fact is, with electric vehicles, you might be cleaning up London's air, which is obviously wonderful for all of us, but you are potentially exporting it because it depends on how the electricity is generated.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

This is a question to the Mayor. You say you are reducing bus kilometres by 1.5%. That does not sound very much, but when you put it into millions of kilometres it is a bit different, isn't it? It is 3.5 million kilometres you are reducing bus kilometres by. Now Peter Hendy, in his Business Plan, also projects a 70 million drop in passengers. It seems to me that you are actually driving people off the buses and back into their cars.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

I think this question can be read in two ways. One is about the number of administration staff in the Surface Transport Department who do whatever they do, the white collar services, if you like, that administer the department; the other is the size of the department as a whole, which is a department which has many hundreds of millions of pounds of spending every year to subsidise bus and other services, but particularly bus services. I think, looking at that other aspect of the question, we see a Surface Transport Department massively reduced in size in terms of the...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

I accept what you are trying to say, or trying to say to us, but I think, in terms of business management - and I do not claim to be a business management expert but it just seems to me common sense - that one man, as managing director, should focus on specific things. Now can I just tell you - you probably know this - from a curriculum vitae from yesterday's seminar upstairs about buses, Mr Brown is said to be in charge of London buses, Public Carriage Office, Dial-a-Ride, Victoria Coach Station, TfL Piers and TfL's corporate interests...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Yes. Speaking as a bourgeois NIMBY, could I please have clarity as to who it is who is going to take the final decision on bus stops? You have told me, Mr Mayor, when I have raised this matter in the past that if the boroughs do not support the relocation of a bus stop, that is the end of the matter. Indeed, I have recent correspondence relating to particular bus stops which are being installed one stop away from the terminus of a bus route, so who on earth do they think is going to get on the bus...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Can I talk to you a bit more about the Elephant and Castle regeneration, Mayor. I think you said there that basically you do support the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle. What I would like to know is exactly what have you done? How have you contributed to the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle in the last nine months?