• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

`Not much into double figures' ; I mean are we talking less than 20, less than 50?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

This is an issue which you know I have raised with you in past, as well, and there is at least some evidence suggesting that if it does not create a problem, it can exacerbate existing problems of disorder, particularly where you have got major public transport nodes. I have got a number of those in my constituency - Bexley town centre and Bromley town centre. How do you respond to the concern that we pick up from ordinary police officers on the street who say `Well, there was a problem before this happened, but the extra congregation of young...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Again, it is pointed out in the report that those people who are actually making a contribution to the purchase price of affordable housing do not want a lot of the affordable housing which has been provided because, as we have discussed earlier, it is the wrong size. More importantly, a lot of it is not in appropriate places where they can exercise a choice. It is indeed the case that in London the bulk of new affordable housing which is likely to be provided in the near future is going to be in the Thames Gateway. We received evidence...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Mr Mayor, bus users will be pleased to learn that the number of arrests for anti-social behaviour are up by 35%, as you told us earlier. Can you just update us on the number of under-16 Travelcards that have been withdrawn for anti-social behaviour? What is the latest figure

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Do you think that the fact that there is so much uncertainty on these routes will discourage the provision of an expansion of housing in the Thames Gateway area?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I wonder, Mayor, whether or not you think that you would like to suggest to the Liberal Democrats that they withdraw their support for the Tory Chairman in light of these comments? Whether you take them lightly or seriously, they are bonkers from either perspective.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Southwark News is a really excellent independent newspaper, Chairman. It is the best independent newspaper in London, and I follow it slavishly. Are you going to do anything, Mayor, to try and reassure the people of Southwark that they will not be getting a multi-story car park on green land in Southwark, and that they need not worry about the statements of the Assembly's Chairman?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I am glad you are taking the report on affordable housing seriously. You will recall that the principle recommendation of that is that the definition for the 50% requirement for affordable housing should no longer be in terms of units, but should be in terms of the area of the housing which is provided. I very much hope that you will say this morning that you will take that on. With regard to your observations about the way the report was commented upon in the Standard, do you not think that they were right to draw attention to the fact...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

On the question of housing strategy, I certainly agree that it is so important to get the transport infrastructure right in order to make the housing much more effective. You talked about the Thames Gateway projects and the fact that Crossrail will obviously help, if and when it starts, and then there are the two transit schemes which were launched five years ago, were they not, as being a tram or trolley bus. Then we heard there may actually be a bus to begin with and that we might introduce a tram later. Are you aware that Transport for London...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

That, of course, is fine, but that is using up resources which many people think should be deployed in general policing. How do you deal with the concern raised with me time and time again by ordinary residents who say what is happening now is that young folk are using the buses as mobile meeting places rather than means of transport? That is not what the system was designed for, is it?