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

Did you get this information out of your correspondence with the Department of Constitutional Affairs, and will you let us know how this discussion is going to progress?

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

I was just thinking, would it be possible for TfL to commit themselves to giving information about fare increases on the Oyster card through things like mobile phones, which more people are more likely to register with, rather than public information, where a lot of people may just miss it all?

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

That sounds like a firm denial of his assertion. I think the public will probably need reassurances so that this notion does not get around too readily. What kind of things can TfL do to make sure that is the case?

• 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.