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

The general opinion in the area is that the tram is unsuitable and that is why people have voted against it. You have quoted your opinion polls. I am not sure when the last opinion poll was that you took.

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

However, it very much depends on the questions you ask in that opinion poll - as I remember, that opinion poll was somewhat obscure in the questions that were asked - and the fact is that people have voted against it very decisively. There are problems along that corridor; no one is saying there are not. Why not look for a more suitable solution, namely investigate the trolley bus seriously? TfL have not taken the trolley bus at all seriously. They have said, `Yes, we have looked at it' and then they have dismissed it. According to my information, the...

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

His explanation is lack of resource because all the resources are being taken away to do Safer Neighbourhood Policing and they are not able to respond to the crimes.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I do congratulate them. If I take, for example, the Borough of Haringey, whilst crime is down overall, and especially the amount of murders have halved in the last year, street crime has gone up. What can be done about that?

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

I have indeed, yes.

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

They sad fact is they did not.

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

One of the problems is the potential under-reporting of crime. Just to quote an example that happened some two days ago in my constituency, where a young man leaving school was set upon by seven yobbos, beaten up and robbed. He reported the fact to the police. This was in broad daylight at 3.45 in the afternoon. By 10 o'clock that night the police had still not responded to that crime and to that young man who needed hospital treatment following the attack. That has led to the view of a lot of people that there is no point in...

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

During the recent elections I came across an old lady who had encountered burglars in her house, she had phoned the police and they had told her to get out and leave the house. She duly did and the burglars fortunately left as well without attacking her. That had happened, once again, in broad daylight and still by 10 o'clock that night no police response had taken place.

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

Given the same statistics point to the fact that more than 800,000 crimes in London went unpunished and undetected and not cleared up, are you happy with those sorts of statistics?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

You are no stranger to it yourself, of course.