• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I am out of time, but I can have your assurance that it will be very, very high on your agenda to push forward?

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

I welcome this being brought up at this meeting and it is a shame that we do not spend longer on a subject like this, and come prepared to, if you like, stand up and put our own experiences and our cases. It is something that I think we should do rather than be looking at what others can do. Let us see what we as an Assembly can do. It is not just about sitting as an observer at your new board. It is the board I want to come to. It is now going to come into existence...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Thank you, I welcome that answer. The Home Office, who have not actually looked at this as far as I can since about the year 2000, then estimated that migrants contributed £2.5 billion more in taxes than they took in benefits, so there is a very strong case to be made. Would you agree to a meeting, if other Members felt that was appropriate, to look at what we can do jointly together? I do not want to look back at the local election results particularly, but I certainly want to look forward to the Assembly election and to see...

• 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?