• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Can I just say, Mr Mayor, as someone who represents the largest Kurdish community in London, I absolutely agree with you. Were you aware that they received an outstanding promise from the previous Mayor that there would be Newroz in Trafalgar Square in 2009 and will you follow that up? You do not have to answer now.

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Just a small technical point. Can we assume that when this scheme comes in the payment system will be 'Oysterized'?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Could I ask, Mr Mayor, on this point whether you have looked particularly at the Barcelona scheme which actually would have some sort of Oyster card technology and would make sure that everyone has to be registered with TfL and pay an annual subscription? Is that something you will support as part of this scheme?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Mr Mayor, I hope that you are going to continue to campaign vigorously against the closure of post offices but you may be aware and you may like to ask your office to investigate that where councils such as the Borough of Wandsworth are coming up with alternative locations for some of these post offices, the Post Office itself is not making it at all easy to negotiate new agreements. It does strike me that that is obstructing the will of local people when indeed solutions can be found, so will you pursue that point?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

I am surprised to hear from you that you have been assured by TfL that there has been a marked improvement because we have been made aware of a vulnerable elderly woman who had been left waiting in the rain for over an hour because of errors in the central computerised system. Also of Dial-a-Ride drivers being mortified because they cannot provide the quality of service that they want to. Can you personally really look into this - not just have an adviser get an assurance come through from TfL - and make sure that standards for the Dial-a-Ride service...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Whilst I fully agree with you about tackling the problem of binge drinking and tackling the problem of underage drinking is it realistic to expect that no 19 or 20 year old should ever buy alcohol?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

I just want to say there are many women's refuge centres in London which deal with the issues we have been talking about. There is not just one. I do want to make that point. The other thing is I think we absolutely have to send you chapter and verse on the work that has been done with boroughs over the last seven or eight years on this issue.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

But you cannot deliver the services to the people who are being abused week in and week out, whether they are men abusing women or same sex partners abusing each other. City Hall cannot deliver the services that are needed; only the boroughs can deliver that through the mechanisms of the community safety partnership, the social services and all the rest of it.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

The reason our side is irate about the interventions is because there is a risk that if you say something that is not true often enough - not you of course - people might believe it. For example, and Mr Malthouse may help us on this at some stage, the work that has been done by the police service in tackling and prioritizing interventions on domestic violence, in working on an inter-agency basis, is, I think, pretty exemplary, and the prioritization that has been given to that. You can always do better on that but the prioritization that has been...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): My definition of sustainability. Well, I do not want to use my time up on that! Taking account of the needs of future generations economically, environmentally and socially. Something like that. That will do. Anyway, I was not particularly worried about you banning the word, it was more about banning the concept that I have concerns about. You have abandoned the GLA Group's budget and sustainable development report which is the monitoring process for how well London is doing in terms of climate change, waste, energy, water and so on across the GLA. That monitoring process...