• 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...

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

On any given site there will be a range of reasons. I am not raising those issues because I have a particular view; the view is best decided locally by the borough. What I am trying to get at is, given that you tend to adopt a very adversarial approach, would it not be better to be working with boroughs so that we can have that precise variability and each site is judged on its merits, instead of you coming in with your target and beating up certain boroughs on a not very logical basis?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

We should recognise that Paris already has, I think, five Crossrails and Frankfurt has a couple of them. Members of the public here might come away from this debate thinking that Crossrail is a massive disaster for London. You have confirmed your view that it is not. Just to reiterate from the Labour side of the Assembly that we think this is a pretty damn good thing for London. The suggestion was that it is bizarre that the Minister should go to the City of London asking for money. Would you agree with me that, far from being bizarre, it...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

The point I am making is that 3% extra levy on the business rate is not just going to be for 7 years; it is going to go on for 25 years and do other things.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

So the trains will be labelled first and second class will they?