• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. I do hope this fuel poverty issue is going to be quite high up your budget in the next round. Apparently, according to official figures, that number of households has doubled since 2003, and the situation is getting much, much worse. I am glad you are coming out with your London-wide fuel poverty programme. What about the London Climate Change Agency? There is a lot that they could be doing. Are they going to move this issue up their area of concern?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Good, because the proposed alterations to the London Plan propose only a one per cent reduction year on year all the way up to 2025. You signed up to the campaign saying the Government should be setting a three per cent reduction target. So you are going to review the information from Stern and hopefully come back with some more ambitious targets for the London Plan then?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Finally, one of the things that was desperately called for by all the operators, or potential operators, was to actually prioritise the rollout of the Oyster pay'as-you-go scheme on some of these services. They thought that that would make an enormous difference to their easy access.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

The other area of complaint in the report was publicity and what have you. Now, given the objections we hear annually to the amounts of money spent on publicising much of the transport initiatives, again, can we expect to see Tory support for that, particularly now in West London, where Angie is a prospective parliament candidate?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

You just have to help me out here. So, a Member of the Assembly, Angie Bray, supports subsidies for river buses, but does not support subsidies for bus services in or out of London, because that is the line they take. Is that your understanding of their position?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

No, but TfL needs to help do it. These are the sorts of things I have asked you for, not for loads of money.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I think Murad (Qureshi) thought that he was doing me the courtesy of telling me that. In fact, he could have done me an even greater courtesy if he had refused to be your patsy, but the fact is, having told me that you and one of your members of staff had asked him to table the question, I accept his apology. Really, Mr Livingstone, if you had to hijack the Mayor's Question Time to put questions to yourself, it really is a pretty pathetic job, is it not?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

First of all, would you not accept that the main thrust in my report was actually to ask TfL not to find extra subsidy, but to be more equitable in the subsidy that it actually exercises, and that perhaps river transport required a fairer look in on the subsidies that are already going? Plus, of course, the millions of pounds swashing around in the TfL budget which are yet to be spent. So, I think the first point is that we were simply asking for more equity of treatment within the subsidy system, rather than extra subsidy. Secondly, would you...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

So why do you not help us do it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Well, first, I must just say that Murad (Qureshi) should be ashamed of himself. He let me in on what I think is a fairly publicly known secret - that you asked him to put that question down, and he apologised to me in advance for it.