• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I have three questions. First of all, on the core budget, you have said that you have said all along that it was £2.375 billion plus £1.9 billion for regeneration. The last time we spoke on this I said there was no such figure as the £1.9 billion in the audit report and you said you would get your staff to show me where it was. You are now saying that the £1.9 billion is made up of the £1 billion for regeneration plus £728 million that is not now going to come in from the private sector. That is...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Just a final one, Mayor. You said in 2009 it would be your successor. Does that mean you are not going to stand in 2009?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

In terms of the land disposals, you have given us some figures, a percentage increase in capital values. What is your current estimate of what land is going to be disposed of? How much land, and how much?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

So would Stephen Pound {Labour MP], Mr Mayor, so would Stephen Pound!

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

No, I said would you agree to the review that was originally contained in the Memorandum of Understanding? You said, `I would not dream of reviewing it. I do not want the review, because it is such a wonderful deal'.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Could you just explain to me why it was that you told me back in 2004/2005 that you had no intention of revisiting the Memorandum of Understanding because you were so delighted with the settlement that you had got then that any review of it was only likely to mean that it was going to cost Londoners even more. Looking back, that of course is a preposterous situation is it not, because the fact is we have had to move along, it has to be reviewed rather severely, and government has agreed perhaps that it has got to give some...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

So you do not agree with Mr Caborn?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You say they are controlled by Borough Commanders, but how will that work? How will the 378 be divided? How many can we expect to have in Havering, for example?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I am sure a lot of people will welcome your announcement yesterday of 378 extra PCSOs (police community support officers) to police the transport system, not least Mr Stephen Pound, Member of Parliament for Ealing, who stated that, `Transport for London had created an adventure playground for gangs or a street corner on wheels' during his adjournment debate last week. But in the past our experience with TOCU (Transport Operation Command Unit) has been that outer London boroughs have not enjoyed their fair share of policing support. How will you make sure that that happens, and that my constituency in...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

What is the maturity of the LDA debt, or any other debt that will be taken on? You said earlier in the discussion that people would not be paying for the cost of the Olympics beyond the ten years of precept payments. Is the debt shorter than that ten year period?