• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Are any of these cameras to be outside the Congestion Charging Zone? How many?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

What I am driving at is that this is not the best use of resources for reducing emissions, and I am seeking to suggest it is going to increase bureaucracy and costs very substantially. How many staff do you think will be involved in actually issuing and prosecuting someone who does not comply with the charging regulations?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Once again, I want to support the ends rather than the means. We on this side are thoroughly anxious to see that emissions are reduced, but we are not convinced that this is the way forward. Can you expand on this a little please? You have told us, in direct response to my question, about the number of staff. How many additional cameras are going to be required?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

So, Mr Mayor, you are now accepting that the original document was not false, but it was produced within this building?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Is part of that guidance, Mr Mayor, a security guidance so that these documents do not fall into the hands of people who are not necessarily benevolent towards you?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

How about the Governor of Tokyo, Mr Mayor? Have you had any conversations or exchange of details with him?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Do a lot of officers who work to your senior members of staff waste their time producing documents that are never read by anybody?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Does that pertain when the individual who prepares the document is working to a senior officer of this Authority?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Final point. You have a `Keep the Noise Down' campaign going on, rather ironically, asking people to turn down their radios and what have you on tube trains. I am also now getting lots of emails from people who are finding the level of announcements on Piccadilly trains, in particular, unbearably intrusive. I travelled out to Heathrow Airport on a Piccadilly train the other day - it was about 8 am so I was not in my best mood - and they were startlingly loud. I am not even aware that it is necessary for health and safety reasons to...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Mr Mayor, will you accept it is not just a Zone 1 issue? Indeed I now have a considerable number of complaints around West Finchley Tube Station on the Northern Line, where this new level of announcement is causing far more inconvenience. These are people who have lived around the tube station for 20 and 30 years. This very morning the announcement we needed was why was the train delayed, not please keep standing back from the platform. We would stand back if there were any trains to stand back from! Also, this very morning at Tottenham Court Road Tube...