• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Do you think that more powers should have been given to local authorities to cut down on the freedom of providing licensing? Do you think that some of the burden should go on the licence fees when this type of problem occurs?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Unfortunately, it was not just a couple. A very significant number of rioters were involved.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

I want to come in as the MPA link member for Croydon, following from Andrew Pelling's (Assembly Member) question. Can I say for information purposes, since the Chair of the MPA may not yet be fully up to speed, that the MPA and MPS have been conducting a very long and full consultation process on the risk formula, and that your views, Mr Mayor, would be as welcome as all the other views that have been received. Returning to Croydon, and as the MPS link member there, I have had a full briefing on the riots and been brought up...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

That would be very good news for places like the Lawdon Estate in Croydon because it would mean the resources would be freed to have policing late in the evenings in those estates as well as in the centre of Croydon. Turning to the two unfortunate riots in Croydon, which were to some extent football-related, and I am sure you have much sympathy for the police because many officers were injured. I do not know whether you receive briefings on these matters, but it seems that there was really no intelligence available to the police that there would be the...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

I note that the resource allocation formula is to be reviewed later this year. Can you let us know what factors you think should be important in that allocation and whether you would be able to suggest that secondary school schoolchildren numbers should be reflected, especially so that we can tap the extra resources into the Safer Schools Programme?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

I am very pleased to hear that you would have support for a change in the formula when so many suburban and night time economies have seen such a huge growth. Last night I was at a meeting where residents from the Lawdon Estate (in Shirley) felt that one of the impacts of dealing with night time economies is that there is very little policing taking place outside these town centres. So I am very pleased to hear you will support it. How will you undertake the lobbying of the MPA (Metropolitan Police Authority) to change this formula?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

So it is a blank cheque?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Are you aware of the woeful consultation conducted by the SRA over the Integrated Kent Franchise? You alluded to this earlier. Their programme of cuts for the south-east London community is not just in my own constituency in Greenwich and Lewisham but also Bob Neill's (Assembly Member) in Bexley and Bromley. Is there any hope of improving consultation arrangements? Can TfL or your good offices, or whatever body replaces the SRA in the future, sort this out? It is causing mayhem and misery when people only found out there was consultation a day before the closure of consultation taking place...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Londoners in my constituency will welcome your statements about the North London Line, but they would also welcome your support for Finsbury Park Station. We currently have £5 million of TfL money sitting and waiting for the SRA to match it so that crucial work can be done at Finsbury Park, a station that you know is quite unsafe and hostile at night, but it is a key transport interchange. What can you do about that?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

What direction will you be giving the rail operators on transport policing?