• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

How many do you anticipate withdrawing over the next year?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

So, if I write to London Buses and tell them that you have given approval, that is fine?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Thank you. I asked the question because in Enfield, towards the end of the last quarter, there was an increase in problems on the buses, mainly young people on young people, around the times between three and four o'clock. Extra resources were put in, which were very welcome, and the Borough Commander took this issue very seriously, and also put her own police resources into this as well. Now that the new school term has started, she obviously wants to maintain the levels of the impact, reducing the levels of problems we have on the buses. One of her suggestions...

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

I think alternative careers beckon for us, do they not Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Right, so it has been almost a year, well a year actually, since you told the Assembly that this would be a virtually instantaneous punishment for people who behaved in an anti-social fashion on the buses, and you have withdrawn four of the passes which you have issued for this so far. Have you noticed, over that time, a massive reduction in the amount of vandalism, smoking and drinking and the other things that you wanted to discourage by young people on the buses?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

The real problem is that the cards have not been properly registered for data protection, so until the 300,000 cards out there have been re-registered, there is not a great deal that can be done to remove them. Last Tuesday night in Hornsey, I encountered a full-scale fight between three teenage girls ' punches, black eyes, the lot. That is after less than 3,000 journeys, so I am not sure about 33,000 journeys before you see anything. It is a problem out there. How long will it take before we have the 300,000 passes re-registered so we can take proper...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

So, what do you have to do to get one of these withdrawn?

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

I am sorry, that is completely head in the sand. We are talking about kids on the under-16 travel things, and should you actually be encouraging them to be riding around late at night anyway?

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

I just wondered if you were listening to the points that Joanne McCartney made? The fact is, like it or not, there is a problem, and her experience, as you know, because I have raised it with you before, is exactly the same as happens in my constituency. Saying that one is going to have lots and lots of police riding around, and so on, might be a helpful solution, but what are you going to do to help the Police by actually putting in place disincentives clearly and specifically to the bad behaviour of a minority, but nonetheless the...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Well, let us talk in moment if we can about how you might differentiate buses using a particular kind of oil for particular people. If you are going to start saying that some people can travel at some prices and others at others.