• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Are you satisfied that there is going to be a clear definition of the Budget and clear definition of cash flow analyses for example? They are pretty basic, are they not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you agree perhaps, Mr Mayor, with Lord Moynihan who is concerned at the lack of transparency over the projects in the Budget?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I am glad to hear that you are working with the private sector on this but given that you have just described your love-in with London Councils yesterday, are you not being a bit of a dog in a manger by, in effect, not offering to help the London boroughs in this matter?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Now that the single waste authority has gone and you are not given these waste powers, does that mean that you have now washed your hands of recycling in London?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I sympathise with that, that you do not want to be the target for failure but, in your Municipal Waste Management Strategy you said that you will put in place, 'A number of policies and proposals that I believe London waste authorities will need to implement'. From what you are saying you are happy to give them advice but not happy to give them any kind of practical help?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Given that you are clearly in favour of exhortation rather than doing something substantial to assist the boroughs, would you care to offer a view on the attitude of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames which now says that people who live outside the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames cannot take their refuse to what used to be the GLC tip there which means that some Londoners who hitherto may only have had to travel a mile to take stuff to the Kingston tip now have to travel in excess of five miles to get to their nearest...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

A lot of people travel without paying. The point I am trying to make to you is that to quote a figure if you are including effectively free travel in that does not represent the experience that the travelling public are actually having. That is why it is so incredible.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What do they include in that figure, though? Are they including all the people who get free travel? Is that how they get it that low?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What about you and I? We get free travel. Are we included in that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What about the Freedom Pass?