• 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...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Four of these stations where the ticket office is not going to be open any more are in my constituency, and three of these are on either the Metropolitan or Jubilee lines. Both lines of course are getting substantial investment, which we welcome, but the concern is going to be that casual users of those lines, who use them to get to either Wembley Arena or Wembley Stadium or to get to the centre of London for the other tourist attractions, will now be discriminated against because there will not be a way of them buying tickets except through cash...

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

Before he left us last year, Jay Walder [former Managing Director for Finance, Transport for London] told us that London Underground, indeed Transport for London, had the most complicated ticket system that any of the public sector transport bodies he knew about had. How are people going to get help with this complex system at the stations where ticket offices have been closed?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Mr Mayor, I am really concerned about people who cannot get a ticket. TfL is not slow in getting people who are travelling on the Underground without a ticket in front of the courts. If the machine has broken down, you have just said in reply to another question that when they get to the end of their journey they can say, `Oh there was no ticket machine working' and TfL will investigate. How will they do that? Will they do that there and then? Will people have to leave their details so that they can be contacted later? Because...