• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

They are not going to win in the foreseeable future.

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

It sounds to me like you are estimating the average fare at one level from TfL's point of view, and at a different level from the travelling recipient's point of view.

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

So actually your under 18s travel scheme is distracting resources away from those other priorities that you have just articulated now, and that you articulated a couple of years ago before you had created this new problem that needs to be solved?

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

OK, so you decided to go the PCSO route. I am sure my two boroughs of Ealing and Hillingdon welcome this additional 18. Given that they always patrol in pairs that means effectively 9 officers that will be available, because they do work together. You said earlier that they would be there for the school rush at 3 pm or 4 pm which, if you look at hot spotting and crime analysis, is the time when most muggings, extortions, whatever else - petty crime I think you called it earlier - happen against teenagers who are the most vulnerable victims...

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

Mr Mayor, you could have, through your budget and your agreements with the Metropolitan Police and, indeed, your relationship with BTP (British Transport Police) actually employed a larger number of full time warranted officers. Why did you choose to go to PCSOs?

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

Just one question. I am very pleased that there is a growing cross party consensus that this is an important issue of trying to police the impact of the free travel on allowing gangs a greater facility to move around London on public transport. I am grateful to Stephen Pound and to Val Shawcross, and we know that other Labour MPs in London are also worried about this issue. Do you think that 387 officers, in the end, is really going to be sufficient? If I can quote some of the problems we have had in Croydon with the gang...

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

You appear to have shifted that debate away from the point I was making on the buses, which are your responsibility, quite neatly there. Just to shift back to the buses, people who travel on them now expect that the cameras are watching over them. That is what your advertising campaign said. I receive a surprising number of complaints from people who have a crime committed against them and then find that the CCTV pictures are ineffective either because the system was not working, or because the lighting was not working. There is a problem here which I think you...

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

£60 million. How does that square with your claim that each of the people travelling will save £350?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Into 2010?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Three years is not good enough, and I am very disappointed.