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

Mayor, as you know, we have students here today with us from Leyton and Barnet colleges. What work is being done with the colleges in terms of helping to provide more youth provision within college sites? It sometimes seems to me that a lot of the focus is on areas away from where students are. If we look at where students are at the moment they are in colleges and they are in schools. How much money will be targeted towards those centres?

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

One of the indicators in your targeted offer is experience of previous schemes in the borough. My concern here is: will that discriminate against boroughs who currently have very little youth provision and who are perhaps the boroughs that need it more than the boroughs that have lots of youth provision?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

The number of injuries and collisions with pedestrians and cyclists which, when we last looked, was three times as high as with double-deckers, and the level of fare evasion on bendy buses. It would be useful to see if anything has helped to bring those figures down too.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

You mentioned that you would be providing the information on fatalities, which is obviously a factor when we look at bendy buses. If it was the only factor we would be banning police cars because we would find that the number of fatalities involved with police cars is higher than anything else! Will you be prepared to provide other statistical information about bendy buses?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Can I ask you one other question. Your figures for fatalities go back to 1994, you said, and you have also made the point in introducing those figures about the various campaigns that may be taken on by your political opponents. Boris Johnson is well known for wanting to reintroduce a form of the Routemaster and he does not like bendy buses, like so many of us. You were a great champion of the Routemaster right up to and including your first mayoral election campaign. Given that you would have known about those figures from 1994, why were you still...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Will you accept it may be that some of the routes are just not suitable for bendy buses?

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

You have just mentioned Harrow. Can you assure me that the funding will be targeted towards areas of deprivation and towards areas where, for whatever reason, the local government have cut the funding to youth provision?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I am interested on where the emphasis will be on the Winter of Sport, given that traditionally our two winter sports have been football and rugby. For example, the basis on which I selected my secondary school was that Quinton Kynaston School played football and Marylebone Grammar played rugby! To what extent do you have the clubs and their federations involved in this? I know the Football Association and the Rugby Union are quite keen. I would have thought they would be better allies than religious groups in some ways. I think what has happened in recent times is where...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

The one key barrier in all this, potentially, is the relative shortage of volunteers to undertake that sort of work. What encouragement is going to be given through this funding to encourage those people to come forward?

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

But if you cannot, will it be rolled over so that at the end of whatever the end date is there will be £60 million spent?