• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Will you also repeat and accept for yourself the other part of Brian Paddick's commitment; that if he failed to meet that target he would not seek re-election? Perhaps you should apply that to what you stated on the record four years ago, announce that you have failed and not seek re-election?

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

Unless I know something that nobody else seems to know. What I was really asking for was the letter you had sent to the Metropolitan Police Service, because the Metropolitan Police Service has responded to your letter saying that because you do not make any criminal allegations they are not going to investigate it.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mr Mayor, we should compare our surveys. I have the figures here in front of me for the British Crime Survey since 2002 which show that they are on a plateau, both for household crime and for personal crime, and that in the last six years, in contrast to reported crime, they have not fallen at all.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Whichever way we dress up these figures, actual crime experienced by Londoners has not dropped and has certainly not dropped by anything remotely like the 50% you aspired to, on the record, four years ago. Follow Brian Paddick; say if you fail to achieve the commitment you gave four years ago you will not seek re-election.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You yourself say the British Crime Survey provides a reliable measure of crime. Recorded crime provides a measure only of crimes reported.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I see, but these are all the reasons why you said in the quote I read out before that the British Crime Survey is a better method than recorded crime because methods of reporting and recording change.

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

Congratulations. I was under the impression that the Metropolitan Police Service has responded to you and said that it is not going to investigate it.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Are you going to avoid the strike now threatened for 1 May?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

What are you doing though to improve relationships with the staff and to introduce more constructive engagement? Are there lessons you can learn from Tube Lines who seem to have far less difficulty?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

But you get the threat of a strike every six months and people have to alter their arrangements.