• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

You talked about the GLA/TfL group doing it. Will the documentation be available to us for scrutiny? What is the timeline of this agreement? Can it all be circulated with full copies of all papers, because it is being done in our name as well?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

I just quoted you a figure: 48,000 out of my constituency covering the three boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Waltham Forest. Two of those are certainly in the top ten of the most deprived London boroughs. What are we going to do if the figures reach over 250,000?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

I am sure the significant numbers of income support claimants in London will welcome the agreement that you have signed with the Venezuelan oil company. I think I have about 48,000 of those people in my constituency and they will be the first to benefit. You talk about the 250,000 people who would receive the half fare. How are we going to manage that? Have you thought through the hows yet?

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

Your TfL colleague, Professor Stephen Glaister, an expert in Congestion Charging, albeit on the pro side of the argument, has been giving his opinion in the Guardian yesterday - no doubt you read what he had to say - when he stated that, in his opinion, `The majority of road congestion is caused by locally resident people and businesses. So if you give out discounts it will devalue the whole point of the exercise.' Is there a move at Transport for London to remove the discount?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Are you happy that the Capita payment system is robust enough to handle it, as it took an hour and four attempts to pay my Congestion Charge on Monday?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

People will say why did you not use the opportunity to bring forward the plans for the hybrid buses? Here you have an opportunity and yet still we are going to have to wait until 2012. The environmentalists will say that one of things you have promised is to reduce oil consumption, so why could we not then have something around that?

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

Obviously the jury is still out on whether the western extension to the Congestion Charge is working or not. How many penalty charge notices has TfL issued in the first two days of operation?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Earlier in your written report you had referred to the McKinsey report and the success that London had achieved by being the city that embraces globalisation. Since President Chavez spends most of his time ranting against the evils of globalisation, how do you think sucking up to a man with his dubious record enhances London's standing as an economic world centre?

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

Mayor, following on from what Bob Neill said, this really is a cash transfer of up to £16 million - £17 million from the Venezuelan oil company with its tax base in Holland. In return, London will provide services - TfL will provide services - but the cash will not be set against the provision of those services, it will be used to provide subsidised travel for those on income support. My concern is, when I look at yesterday's press release, this benefit worth at least the equivalent of £280 a year for up to 250,000 of the lowest income...

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

Mr Mayor, last week you could not really answer my question about what your Budget was doing for low paid workers in London. I see you have at least come back with some kind of response this week.