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

I was so disarmed by your being nice to me earlier I completely forgot another question I wanted to ask! Given that you are concentrating the costs of the Crossrail within this relatively small area, have you given any guarantees that any cost over runs or extra expenses will not be carried by the whole of London? For example, fare increases or cuts to budgets and that sort of thing. Basically, can you guarantee that any overruns will not be paid for by us?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I am delighted to hear about you wanting to see the Bakerloo Line extended. Have you got ambitions to see that extended as far as Lewisham?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Mr Mayor, will you confirm what Simon Milton said to the Planning and Housing Committee about a flexible approach being taken in these questions? Elephant and Castle has been raised but I also have the Nine Elms regeneration project going on in my constituency and developers there are very concerned that they will not be expected to contribute twice, once to Crossrail and then again to Section 106 agreements.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Thank you, Chair. Mayor, you have acknowledged in the last Transport Committee that you attended that there is this gaping gap of two million tonnes of carbon in the Strategy. I am just wondering, with all the measures you have put in place, how you feel that other areas of the GLA are going to be picking up on this. Clearly you should be actually doing as much as you can, through your powers as Chair of TfL, and it seems quite lacking if you look at some of the detail. So, for example, if we look at the 25,000...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Very quickly, Mr Mayor, are you aware that the Labour Group of the London Assembly wrote to the Minister about this several weeks ago in fact, and we are happy to share that correspondence with you?

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

Mr Mayor, you have just been asked about the relationship between yourself and ATOC on matters of the Freedom Pass and the costs. This morning London Councils has flagged up - and you may have seen it in its newsletter - its worries about ATOC asking for extra money to pay for the Freedom Pass. Now, Caroline [Pidgeon] was asking about 24 hours as I understood it but, apparently, ATOC is asking for more money for the Freedom Pass in any case when it is used on the mainline services. Are you talking to London Councils about their worries on...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

So the meeting in February will, effectively, be your emergency rail summit that you promised within weeks of taking office at City Hall?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Occasionally we have a lively exchange but let us keep to matters of professional interest here. What insights did the report give you when it described you as being too confrontational? What did you take away from that?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Again, it is relating to the London Plan and forward planning across London. In my own borough and council of Barking and Dagenham there is the intention of between 15,000 and 25,000 new houses going up. This, in a sense, with the further request for more housing, both social and council, in the Ford area, in the marshes, would almost constitute a new ward being developed. Is there a possibility of future plans to upgrade the Dagenham Fire Station there on the grounds that, with this new development going forward between the next three and ten years, that there will...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Councillor Coleman, the line of questioning that we have had from certain parts of this Chamber, is that reflective of the questions that are asked in LFEPA meetings?