• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Are you suggesting that the annual grants may be affected as a result of this action?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

There are also potential opportunities to expand or widen roads rather than taking out lanes of traffic in order to put in bus lanes, which is what is going on from your office.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Thank you for informing us about the knock-on effects of this unilateral action by Ealing Council. Are we expecting this to be replicated by other councils potentially in London, since some have changed regimes?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Well I look forward to you agreeing, but of course the problems are not just endemic in Brent, they are endemic across outer London.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

I think we have to put some positive incentives to minicab drivers, having gone through the registration scheme. I think it would help reinforce what is a successful safety scheme

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

A very simple question, a bit of an old chestnut really; now that minicabs, private hire vehicles, are easily identifiable because they have plates on them, are we moving towards a position where we can reconsider whether they should be able to use bus lanes?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Thank you, Mayor. In fact it would actually solve the problem. There are just one or two sensitive locations where minicabs have had trouble picking up and dropping off, and it is a particular issue when it is late at night and there are people who have been concerned about homophobic attacks et cetera. The taxi licensing scheme for minicabs has been a great success, a real step forward, and it just would be helpful to have full facilitation for people to use these things at night. If TfL cannot find a way of making a pick up and set...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

This is still a problem for black cabs in some parts of London as well, such as outside Liverpool Street station, where when they want to set people down outside the station, who are very often my constituents who are travelling to Ilford and Romford. They are not allowed to do so in the bus lane because they will get ticketed so they have developed the habit of setting them down in the middle of the road, and therefore putting those people at risk because they have to cross what is actually a very bus lane with a lot of...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Elizabeth you raise a serious point, but I am not going to let you ask Valerie (Shawcross) in a session which is questions to the Mayor. It is sad the incident you describe but this is not actually on the question paper, unless the Mayor wants to give a response to that.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

But in the meantime you will see if it is possible to bring them in to get some sort of voluntary code?