• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I was just going to make the point that by and large Transport for London discourages articulated vehicles from coming into London, does it not?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Can I ask you to reconsider and to give disabled sport the same amount of money as able-bodied sports?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

You are quite right; in my constituency I know of about three or four bus accidents over the years where there was hardly any mention of them. Is there anything that we can do to dampen this hostility that there clearly is in the media about the bendy bus? As you said, the furore sadly that we have seen was not about the fatality but about the bendy bus.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Certainly I do not imagine anyone here will not send their condolences to the families for their loss. You have said that you are going to be sending that information to the Assembly's Transport Committee, which sounds a very good idea, but will you also be making the investigation report public? It would be useful if that information was available so that people could understand more of the background to the accident.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Presumably you would welcome ideas as to how this might work? Finally, the £250,000 that you mentioned earlier, you talked about it being for able-bodied sports people and for disabled. Could you give us the split between the two? How much is for disabled sport?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Who will run the Cross Borough Innovations Fund? It is not clear. The need for a cross borough fund I think everyone agrees is absolutely vital because people do not just go to a youth club from that particular area. Who will run it?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I think £80,000 is derisory and will not make any difference at all. It is just almost an insult to disabled sport. As you know their needs are greater than able- bodied sports because it has been so badly lacking in funding and the facilities are appalling.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Sorry, I must not have made myself clear. What I am saying is, if a borough currently has very little youth provision, will you make sure that it is not stopped from getting some of this money because one of your targets says that it should only be for boroughs that have existing schemes running?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I had a meeting on Monday lunchtime with the Redbridge Pensioners' Forum - 76 older people, a very good turnout - many of them avid supporters of you, looking forward to coming to Peoples' Question Time to see you later on this month. They were, pretty much universally, against the articulated bus. They were unhappy about the fact they could not get a seat on it, which as older people they need, and they were unhappy about the level of fare evasion which they have seen there. They were also unhappy about the suitability of the vehicle for roads. Do...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

What I wanted to pursue with you is how, in practice, you can get a good working relationship with boroughs given that on any individual site there will be a variety of differing factors which may mean that an affordable housing target cannot be reached. Can I invite you to go beyond what was a perfectly straightforward answer, which I entirely accept is right. In the media this week our good friends The Evening Standard cited the Coin Street tower block just down the river from here where there are plans for swimming pools and so forth but no affordable...