• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Mayor, you have obviously come round to the One London party view on fixed terms, because when you were talking eloquently on the Greater London Authority Bill eight or nine years ago you were very much in favour. However, I will leave that to one side.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I ask about the bus fares firstly. There was £38 million more revenue than expected, which has allowed you to cut the price of a single journey from £1 to 90 pence. How `future-proof' is that cut? Do you expect revenues to continue growing at that rate?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I have one other question; it is something that we have touched on before at these sessions and that is the availability of Oyster cards and the fact that people may still use cash. I know that there has been a scheme to give free Oyster cards out. I am wondering how that is going and what the uptake of that has been?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I am sure you are aware that every Member on this side of the Chamber has been directly elected in a ballot, and we have been chosen by the London electorate directly, just as you have, and it is for that reason that we do not believe that it is right that our terms of office should be limited by anyone other than the electorate. We take the view that those of us who live by the ballot should die by the ballot, and it is our intention to see that in May next year you indeed do die by...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I want to go back to the issue of term limits. An unholy alliance between you and this lot on anything to do with democracy is quite extraordinary. I commend to you that you go back and read what you said when this place was being set up, including in your response to the White Paper. Mayor (Ken Livingstone): You do not need to because you have reminded me of it so many times before! Mike Tuffrey (AM): I carry it around for when you come out with these things: `How can a Mayor be removed? It is not enough...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I noticed that Mr Pope used this as an opportunity to bring forward his question about undergraduate fares further up the agenda, and you made quite supportive noises about that. Have you done any work on how much it will cost and where the money will come from?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

On the subject of your fare cut, is it not just a cynical pre-election bribe?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Your announcements do of course relate to Londoners, particularly those on low wages and certainly, on this side from the Liberal Democrats, we strongly support London's Living Wage and believe that LFEPA should be paying London's Living Wage to cleaners across London in LFEPA sites. There is no dispute there. However, I do dispute this bus fare policy because you yourself have said that some of the poorest people in London need to be helped. If we take London's students, 90% of whom are in debt, you could have done much more to help them, could you not? Indeed, any...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Just a very brief question; the £300 million that we have to find linked with the value of the land. Cash flow wise, obviously the land will come to fruition afterwards. Where is the money going to come from in the meantime, or do we need it?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Just a couple of points of clarification; you were talking about the increased land values and what it would be spent on. You did not mention LDA borrowing. I am assuming that the first call would be the LDA borrowing. Is that correct? Mayor (Ken Livingstone): It is. Dee Doocey (AM): OK. The second thing is that when Neale Coleman [Director, Business Planning and Regeneration, GLA] came to the Assembly's Budget Committee, in response to a question from me he said that the increased land values would be used to fund the £10 million that you are committed to spend...