• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The Youth Offer money and the doubling of youth activities is an opportunity to try to restore some of the quality and the integrity of youth work that has been lost over the years. Is there any programme for making sure there is an evaluation of how the money is spent and whether or not it does meet this criterion of young people being involved?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

And you will monitor misuse?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Isn't there a case for using the fact that there is this very good offer on the table as leverage to restore those facilities? Saying, 'The money won't be there unless the facilities that were cut are restored and then there will be additional money for more facilities'.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Would you be expecting them to put back what they have cut and then take the money on top to add?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Some smaller groups ' I was talking to one in Peckham yesterday ' think it has gone a bit quiet at the moment but I accept what you are saying; that there is more information to be published. There are some councils ' and I am thinking of one in my patch, Southwark ' which are in a financial mess. Southwark is currently cutting £30 million from its budget, including closing a children's museum. Can you go into more detail about how is the monitoring being done to make sure that there is not any displacement funding and that the...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I think there was an enormous sigh of relief across the communities I represent that at last somebody was going to do something to support youth activity, particularly for young, vulnerable people. I think in principle it has been generally accepted it is a very good idea to use the councils in touch with their local community. Do you think there are any risks involved in channelling the funding through local councils as well?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

What is your approach going to be with boroughs ' and I can think of several ' who have in the last year even cut their youth provision?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

There does seem to be progress therefore of a sort on making life easier for Londoners to pay the Charge which is certainly to be welcomed. I am very surprised that you say these two technologies are not quite compatible. You have automatic number plate recognition which is already working. You have your Oyster card which is already working. I would have thought that it would be a fairly simple matter as soon as the camera picks up the number plate to identify the driver and dock it from his Oyster card. That seems to me to be a very...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You do not say that it is declining relatively to Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam and Paris? Everybody else does; all the experts do.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mayor, the problem here, as the unions and business say, is that at a crucial stage Heathrow will lose its role as a premier hub, particularly if there are threats from another major party to do something bizarre like wind it down and threaten all the jobs in the area.