• 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.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Thank you, and I will certainly acknowledge that work is going on. That is very welcome. However, the point of the question, essentially, is to ask you to redouble or treble or quadruple your efforts in this area. I think there are only three people in the sustainability unit, and spending on this area is an absolute fraction of the total spending in TfL. Have you got any plans to increase the work they are doing beyond what is actually only a small beginning?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I agree we cannot stop the world and say we want to get off, but equally the London Plan isn't a sort of predict and provide process. The London Plan is supposed to direct development to certain areas. If you take the Isle of Dogs, which is one you just mentioned, there are 10 times as many jobs predicted to be created there as homes. Should the London Plan not be doing more to get this balance right to fulfil the policy that is in there already, which is to reduce the need to travel?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

You raised the London Plan. Obviously there is an existing policy commitment, 3C1, to reduce the need to travel. However, when one actually looks at the projections comparing where the jobs are and where the houses are, there is a huge mismatch currently, hence the long commutes that people do. Is that not going to get a lot worse? If you just look, for example, at Croydon, which is already a centre of employment, there is going to be three times as many jobs in Waterloo, in terms of the growth projected to 2060, as there is in Croydon. If...