• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Well will you please provide that to the Assembly?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

A surprisingly high number of contraventions. You suggested that one way of dealing with this was to get cyclists to register. Would that not be a terribly bureaucratic process and a rather costly process, and would that money that would go into registration not be better spent on increasing policing of such contraventions, because, as you have said publicly, some of these contraventions are potentially very dangerous to pedestrians and other road users?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

I am grateful that the weakness of the consultation process is recognised to the extent that the change in service was disguised under a consultation under the Centrale tram stop nomenclature. However, is there not a recognition there, from the Mayor, that there is very significant crowding now, with the reduction of the volume of trams sent into New Addington during the evening rush hour, and could there be some thought about some of the New Addington trams going around the loop at Croydon, so as to restore some of the tram capacity that has been taken away from the...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Very good. One other change which is directly linked to the tram, because of the T-linked (tramlinked) buses, is a further proposal to reduce this provision of T-linked buses in New Addington. This is in the context of changes to higher cash fares - and unfortunately many of those who were socially excluded on the New Addington Estate might be more vulnerable to having to use cash fares. Do you think that this is a sensible proposal to have a reduction in the feeder buses into the trams, particularly bearing in mind that that means the length of journey for...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Mr Pelling is dealing with the route between New Addington and West Croydon.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Can it possibly be satisfactory that the flagship of policing in the capital ' which you support ' which is the introduction of the SNTs, employ people who have criminal convictions? Can it be right, that because people with criminal convictions are employed on these SNTs, residents may perhaps, for all I know ' because you have not told us what these convictions are for ' be being policed by burglars?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Mr Cameron (Leader of the Conservative Party) is not employed in policing the peaceful streets of Chislehurst, but the people who live in peaceful Chislehurst have the right to expect that the people who are looking after them do in fact have a blameless past, and can be relied upon to protect those things which the MPS is designed to protect.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

This is a question about policing, not about politicians

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

There are, I suspect, infinitely more people who want to serve in the MPS, who have never done the kind of thing that you have suggested: thrown a punch or the sort of thing which has been suggested, indeed, the kind of thing that it has been alleged that you have done. It must be right, would you not agree, that those people who enforce the law, those people who are involved in seeing that our neighbourhoods are safe and' that London is safe , do, in fact, have a history which makes them exemplars for the people that they...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Mayor, I am glad to see that we are making progress on the Labour manifesto commitment to become cashless on the buses. Just thinking a bit longer-term, one of the things we are going to have to get used to is people travelling on the system who apparently have not paid. I wondered if there were things that we could do on that front? In recent travels to Vienna and Singapore, you notice people just jumping on and off quite happily, and no one really suspected them of anything more than trying to get from a to b as quickly...