• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

The follow-up question is that we tend always to be looking in at ourselves, and it is easy to look at Barking & Dagenham, but can you just assure us again that following on from the submission that you made to the European Commission about labour migration that you will keep on working within the European context because this issue is not just a London or a UK issue but really we should be looking at it from a European perspective as well? Can you give us again that sense of openness about what it is that the European office...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Regarding the question at the end about what more could be done to make the positive case for London to be a diverse, open and flexible place to live and work, I am wondering what we, as leaders in London, should do by way of a message to those people in Barking & Dagenham who felt that that was not a thesis that they could sign up to?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I might just do that. Surely there are many parts of the Underground system at station concourses which are not subject to extreme wind blasts?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

You are not going to look at it then?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I think we would all agree that enhancements to security on the transport bit, the Tubes, the buses or the trains, is welcome and the statistics you quote about passenger satisfaction on buses are worthwhile. I wonder perhaps if you might like to consider this and take it back to TfL: notwithstanding those apparent figures, which I assume are from their passenger satisfaction surveys or something of that kind, my postbag certainly remains very substantial with concerns expressed by residents in both the two boroughs that I have, of what is not serious crime, but unpleasant, intimidating bad behaviour, rowdyism...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

This is about security and a system that is proposed by management to improve the security of London's Tube system; you do not know where it has reached? I am surprised.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I am surprised at that answer with your real intricate interest in London that you have no interest as to where these officers will be deployed, because we know there are particular hotspots, particularly at some of our interchange stations, such as East Croydon and Clapham Junction. Are you not going to give some directions?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I am grateful for that, and this is an area where, as you know, there is not controversy between us because we all support the work of the TOCU. Are there plans to expand the numbers and operation of TOCU so that perhaps they might be able to police more routes, particularly in outer London?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I was thinking specifically of my experience at Canary Wharf, where in the light of the bombing there is much greater security. We referred earlier to new retail developments such as Park Royal and White City, and the question is whether you should be using your planning powers, for example, to look at security standards within new developments.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I am getting increased reports about anti-social behaviour on buses linked to people using your under-16 travelcards. I just wonder if the process you have for withdrawing those cards is sufficiently robust.