• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Moving back on to the issue of water on the tube. Given that this might enhance the tourist experience in London, are you concerned then that when they complete their tube journey, all refreshed, that their views of London might be affected by the latest London View Management Framework, and does that need to be looked at!

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I just go back to the issue Geoff [Pope] raised about young Londoners' fare concessions. Jennette Arnold in discussions earlier on this morning with the students from her constituency was informed that many of these fare concessions do not apply to school holidays, and it seems unnecessary to just focus these concessions on school trips and not other trips that they may want to take to enjoy London. Mayor (Ken Livingstone): While this has gone on I have found the answer to Geoff Pope's question [question 1307/2007]: Increasing the discount from 30% to 50% on the tickets would reduce...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I am very supportive of the Mayor's robust defence of democracy and the democratic process as regards term limits. I voted against such a suggestion when the Bill was in the House of Commons. However, one other amendment that we should all be celebrating from yesterday was the amendment allowing this Assembly to decide upon the Mayoral Budget by a simple majority, a democratic majority, rather than the ridiculous two thirds majority that currently applies. The question is, as the Mayor is so supportive of the democratic process, will he, in his intention to spend Londoners' money fighting one particular...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I welcome the announcement you have made because it is something that I have been pushing for for a while, and that is for you to be mindful of the impact of rises on those communities that can least afford it. Can you just answer the question that I have had put to me, and it came from residents around the Archway Gyratory: having found a substantial amount like £38 million, why did you not think of investing it in sorting out this awful blot on the landscape in this area, that makes so many peoples' lives a misery? It...

• 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?