• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I hate to agree with the Liberal Democrats this close to local elections, but Dee is absolutely right. The fact is, I would like you to promise us that you will go back to the Commissioner and say that we are going to persist on this and, perhaps, raise it even more firmly, because I think that is a ludicrous response from the MPS, and my nonsense detector is going off very loudly.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Thank you for that response. I just want to make it clear that freedom of speech does have its limits and with it comes responsibilities, and some of those limits include things like obscenities and what have you. What strikes me as the issue here is that Members of Parliament did not see fit to extend the laws that we have, rightly so, on race hate to religious hatred. I dare say that it would have been useful to have had that message from Parliament given so that the jury up in Yorkshire would have seen fit to have decided...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Jennette Arnold (AM): The point of order is can we get the full written answer from Peter Hendy to this important question that Nicky raised and that we will not see a full answer for because it will not be featured in the written answer section? I think it is disgraceful that we can just have from you, Chair, a cut off from the Commissioner when TfL holds such a key responsibility in this area. So can we have the full answer in writing?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Can you tell us how you are setting about reducing emissions through efficiency measures, through refurbishment, and are you going to set up a revolving loan fund so that you can reinvest the revenue savings from energy and carbon cut into further investment?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Do you mind if I just come in because a mitigating fund is not the same as a revolving loan fund?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

If my colleague, Roger Evans, was here, he would be saying the same, because we have both spoken to Ian Brown and we are aware of Ian's support. It is just how we can maintain that momentum. I totally understand what you are saying about there being other priorities, and of course I am arguing for other lines as well. If I write you a letter can you put your commitment to this important link in writing to the campaigners for the Hall Farm Curve? That would give them more assurance.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Good morning, Peter. My question is about the Rail 2025 section around radial improvements, particularly in relation to the Chingford to Stratford rail link, and the piece we, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, call `The Missing Link', which you will know is generally referred to as the Hall Farm Curve. In the Rail 2025 document, it is quite clear there, on page 75, that radial improvement is top of the list. It says: `And that increasing the number of tracks ' and diverting Chingford trains to Stratford via Lea Bridge' which would then speak to our hope of...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So you welcome us beating a path to your door with local schemes that need funding?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

And local schemes?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

You have several tram projects, including the West London Tram. Surely they are dependant on getting some capital permission, otherwise you have to elongate the design and consultation period, which is really going to be very excessive in expenditure is it not?