• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I mentioned about the hospital because in times of illness, that is something that stays with people, because of all the other factors, but there are other spin-offs as well. Somebody told me recently that when you look at elders, they are not able to use the holiday schemes that are on offer, because many of those--

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Reduced price holidays, and I am going to tell Jennette that this is pushing it.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Reduced price holidays.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Can I just go back to the figures. In terms of the £10 million gap which London councils are saying they cannot fund? Have you explored whether or not you could find it in TfL's budget, because this is really the thrust of my question? What does that break down to? I do not have to rehearse this with you given the commendable work that you have done, but when we look at the figures, the level of poverty amongst our elders is totally unacceptable for this day and age.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

No, Londoners.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

No, about them moving around in London.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

No, let me just be clear. I do not want you, or any listeners, to think it is just a matter of access to hospitals. I am saying that this is a matter of access, and it is about quality of life.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

No, it is about quality of life. What I am introducing is I do not want you to stay with just a health example. This is a quality of life issue, because we have evidence to suggest that elders are not able to use services like cheaper holidays, so it is something that we should be pushing.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Will you join us in commending the five supermarkets? I will name them: M&S, Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury's, and the Co-op have all issued deadlines for the removal of trans fats from their own-label products. It strikes us that if the big five can be doing it in their own products, that we have got an opening there so that we can encourage them and push and hope that other major food manufacturers will come on board.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I will just say I think it is brilliant, and I wish the overground trains would be as good as the bus service.