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

That is all fine language, but what I am concerned with is that there was a categorical assurance given to the Assembly that there would be monitoring steps taken. We do not see any evidence of that categorical assurance being followed up.

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

I remember two years ago when we talked about this, you told us that you were unsure what was happening because the system was evolving. It sounds a bit like it is still evolving. A very important shortcoming has been dealt with but it really should have been spotted at the beginning.

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

I am quite surprised that you do not know that because you have come here today to talk about the under-16s Travelcards, and this is an issue the Assembly raises with you whenever you mention it. It does sound to be a disappointingly low number, considering that the number of arrests are up by 35%. Are we saying that people who commit offences, while they may be being punished in other ways, are allowed to continue to travel?

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

I think he was quoted in the report, and I am sure he will come in. Can I just move onto our Chairman's comments about building multi-story car parks on Potters Field? I do not want to belabour this one; I am actually torn between thinking `Oh that is just our Chairman making another bonkers statement in order to get into the press'- and he rather likes doing that, does he not - and actually reacting to some of the alarm there was in the community. There were certainly serious reports in Southwark News where Councillor Coleman says, 'I think...

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

With regard to the Assembly's report on affordable housing, I am the Vice-Chair of that committee and the comments and the analysis in the Evening Standard, I felt, were completely in the opposite direction to the findings of the report, which was a sensible all-party report. One of the criticisms that was made and that I would ask you if you would like to have an opportunity rebut, was that it accused the Mayor of failing to define what `affordable' means. The report calls for a tighter definition of affordable housing, while the analysis in the report suggests that what...

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

Thank you. It is useful to know that you will in fact be taking the report seriously, and will not be put off by the inaccurate spin that was put on the coverage.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Do you think therefore that the tram was nothing to do with Labour's defeat?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Which ones did you save?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

The Deputy Prime Minister, and Charles Clarke, and indeed Tessa Jowell (Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport), and (Peter) Mandelson (former Cabinet Minister), Formula 1 racing. None of these issues came up on the doorstep, Mayor. However, there is an old saying that `Greater love hath no man than he lays down the life of his friends for his own.' Do you have any form of guilt over laying down the lives of the Labour councillors in Ealing in the route of your tram?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

If you look at the wards along the route of the tram, Mayor, I think of places in Ealing such as Hobbayne and Elthorne, where we have never held Conservative councillor seats, which we took, and Acton Central where there were clear issues around the tram and it was there. I would have thought you would have appeared just once, either carrying a red flag or a white one.