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

That is a relief. I have to say, I thought the fact that there are now 60,000 cameras or so on the bus fleet, approximately 8,000 buses, was a real achievement for TfL. I think what I am worried about is that we are in danger of undermining that by having any kind of charging policy. You are saying it is going to be a minority of situations where there is going to be a charging. What kind of assessment has TfL done of this? Is there any sense in which the police are going to be discouraged from requesting...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I was glad to hear you say that the Metropolitan Police had been consulted and had agreed that they thought a charge was appropriate, particularly given the demands on the Metropolitan Police Service budget. Would you not agree that it really should be up to the bus companies to want to keep their passengers safe? Since they are making a profit, should they not be picking up the bill, rather than passing it on to the taxpayers through the Metropolitan Police budget?

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

OK. However, I can think of a situation where the police might have a very broad parameter for a search. It is only one year since there was a bomb attack on a bus in London. I am sure the anti-terrorist work, the surveillance work, that is necessary as part of anti-terrorist preventative operations, must include quite a lot of CCTV surveillance. So what is the situation there, with regards to anti-terrorist operations?

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

The installation of the cameras is relatively new, the system is new. This system that you are talking about now of Peter paying Paul for this footage is new. Do you think that there would be a need for some kind of a review of its operation? I would be concerned, for example, if there was a dispute between the police and a bus company about some work, and whether or not work would actually be held up. Are there any safety nets to check the operation of this new system?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I agree with Val (Shawcross). I think we need to keep a close eye on this. Can you just imagine what would happen if the Metropolitan Police turned round to the bus companies, and said, `Well, every time we come on the buses in order to protect the public, because they are on your buses, we are going to charge you'? I do think we are getting into dangerous territory.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

What, of course, you omitted to say from this interesting survey is that the strength of opposition is greater, with a significantly higher proportion saying they are strongly against the scheme, namely 33 per cent, than strongly in favour, 19 per cent. Did you not take that into account?

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

I am asking a straight question. It appears that the people of Uxbridge may get some service, but it is the people living in between that appear to have been left out of all your calculations. They are the ones who do not feel they are getting anything.

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

As the newly selected Conservative candidate for Ealing Central & Acton, you will appreciate that this is going to become of even more of interest to me than it already is as a GLA Member for Hammersmith & Fulham. Can I put it to you that the perception out there, both in Hammersmith & Fulham and in Ealing & Acton, is that this is everything to do with bringing people from Uxbridge towards Central London, and has very little to do with the interests of the people who lie in between.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

I am just wondering, do you think in the Acton part of this proposed tram, you should replace the tram with a 4x4 lane, with special access routes to Gloucestershire? Have you considered that as an option?

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

Why do you keep comparing it with Croydon, when the difference, surely, is a rather key one; Croydon is largely built on old, unused railways lines, which were therefore already there, and not getting in the way of other people trying to use other forms of transport to get around, whereas this is literally going to close the centre of Acton.