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

But is it not the case that the reason that you have not withdrawn cards over the last year was because the scheme turned out to be much more difficult to manage than you thought it would, with the data protection problems? We still do not know whether the TfL inspectors, for example, can take people's tickets off them for anti-social behaviour. Is that something that has been sorted out?

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

I did a similar thing on the Northern Line: 'move right down the carriage please.'

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

Can I ask do all Borough Commanders and all those involved in this know that they should in fact pass details on to TfL where the ultimate decision can be taken?

• 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be a virtually instantaneous punishment for people who behaved in an anti-social fashion on the buses, and you have withdrawn four of the passes which you have issued for this so far.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?