• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Thank you. However, you would be amazed if I did not follow up on the West London Tram. Given that, in May this year, you laid down the political lives of your compatriots, or whatever one calls them these days in the Labour Party - comrades, that is the word - in Ealing and in Hammersmith & Fulham, I find it surprising that you are now prepared to commit political suicide over the next two years. Is this a wholly rational decision?

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

Thank you for your verbal report. No doubt, there will be some follow-up from others who are on the MPA about clarifications for your conversations with the Home Secretary, and the West London Tram will be brought up later on in subsequent questions. The thing I wanted to do was actually just congratulate GLA Events and Media team for doing a very good event on Sunday at Trafalgar Square.

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

I think it would have to be a consideration. It is about £750 million. Is that going to be more money you are going to be borrowing, which is going to, again, have an impact on fare rises?

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

You have been seeking co-operation for quite some time now, have you not? You do not seem to be making a lot of progress, which is regrettable. There are, as you know, about 26,000 wheelchair users who are in need of accessible housing. How many of these properties do you think you are going to be able to deliver per year when you take over responsibility for the London Housing Board?

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

Why not?

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

Perhaps we should have picked it up earlier. Can I just ask you about the London Accessible Housing Register? When is it going to be available, and can you confirm that information is going to be made available to potential landlords about security needs of disabled people? The police have said on a number of occasions that, in some boroughs, people with obvious signs of disability, like wheelchair ramps outside the houses, are almost sitting ducks for gangs of people burgling. There really needs to be special security measures put in, when there are wheelchair ramps put outside the houses...

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

Do you think ten per cent is enough, given the fact that there are 26,000 that need to be housed?

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

Can I just be clear? When you take over responsibility for the London Housing Board, you are going to put in a mechanism to monitor the number of properties that are going to be wheelchair accessible, and you are going to make this a priority?

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

Why not?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Let us hope. Tube Lines is reporting that it has had a 43 per cent increase in the waste paper that they are having to take off their Tube trains as a result of this explosion and they are only one third of the network. Metronet has apparently not yet put[newspaper recycling] in place, despite promising -