• 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...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

The other part of my question then which is possibly from a Union perspective, you and I have, in different ways, done work with the T&G (Transport and General Workers' Union) down the years and the classic problem for bus drivers is that the wider world expects bus crews to push towards a policing role. That is clearly not their job, it makes them insecure and it does not address the problems. Now I fully understand that among TSSA staff there will be a fear that people who have been doing very good jobs in the office are being pushed...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I just be clear; you are saying that somebody cannot be employed to sell 28 tickets a day? Does that mean that that person is going to lose their job and that is a salary saved, or what?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I have two very simple questions; the first is, just to be local, my constituents in Dagenham, where there have been a number of incidents around stations, will want to be reassured that this does not mean that it will be impossible to find a member of staff. Therefore, are you clear that within TfL, within the Underground, this is going to be properly managed so that if someone has a problem at a station they can press a button or whatever and they can find someone who can address their concerns immediately? There is a concern among the public...