• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

We will of course, as we always do, judge your budget on its merits when we see what it is. You would not expect me or anyone else to be giving you a commitment blind, without any knowledge of what will or will not be in it.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I cannot imagine ever denouncing you for wild statements, Mr Mayor. I understand, of course, that you are not able to make firm commitments about additional funding for next year. The question I actually asked was whether you will commit to continuing the funding which is already provided for in this year's budget, and therefore I would assume is in the base budget, and if it is not continued next year will actually therefore represent a cut.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I am not actually fighting a by-election, but it will come as a great relief to our candidate that you are not going to seek to assist him.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Let me try and be more simple. The crime figures at Bromley South Station and at Bickley Station are well above average. They are higher than they are, for instance, at Peckham and Stratford. The deployment of the additional BTP Officers, albeit only two thirds of what you promised in your budget, does not include those stations or that area at all. It was done in conjunction with TfL. I am asking you now why that was not given any priority.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

We do not have an alliance, obscene or otherwise, with the Tory party, far right or otherwise, as you very well know. Did I understand from your original answer to my question there that the commitment to funding these additional officers, wherever they are, was actually for one year only? Will you in fact next year be at least continuing the funding of the 89 that you committed to in this year's budget?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I have no desire whatever to get out something inflammatory and inaccurate. I am indeed trying very hard, but with some difficulty, to establish a degree of accuracy in what your intentions are, what your policies are, and what your aspirations are, and what is actually happening on the ground.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

First of all it is your budget not mine; and, second, I am just reminded that you are the Mayor and I am not - yet. I just thought I would float a rumour. Through you, Chair, can I say that in that eventuality I have not only given any suggestion that I would continue with my existing job but actually would not be allowed to be a Member of the Assembly were I to be Mayor of London. I do not want to go down this route any further. Can I though, as Mr Neill has very helpfully reminded...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

We always agree with each other on what the train operating companies ought to be doing, so let us park that for the moment.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I recall that in fact your budget for this year provided for 89 ' not 60, but 89 ' additional BTP Officers on overground rail. I think you just said in your answer 60. Are you able to tell us where the missing 29 have gone?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

There is a particular conflict in Southall where I think the passengers on the platforms have got used to so much freight going through in the daytime.