• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

You may be interested to know that the Budget Committee of the Assembly carried out some focus group polling on various aspects of your Budget and your policies. This was an issue that the groups were concerned about. Some of our respondents said they worried that your scheme would increase the amount of truancy that went on during the day. Do you have the power to remove cards from people you catch playing truant on the buses during the day?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Therefore you are saying that if someone is being prosecuted you have to get the agreement of the person who is being prosecuted before you can let TfL know what the details are?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

One of the concerns that has been raised is whether there is the capacity on London's bus network to implement this policy without it affecting other users. I have been copied into a letter from a Headmaster from one school in London who states he feels this is a problem with the bus services going past his school. He says: `It might be that the Mayor and his confederates fail to make the connection between their generous initiative and the potential need for more buses'. Is that a fair criticism?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

The report to the latest TfL Surface Advisory Panel states, in the words of the Managing Director of Surface Transport, that the withdrawal sanctions for under-16 passes are being reviewed to ensure clarity and police support. What does he mean by that?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

You are seeing blues under the bed everywhere. It is pathetic.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

You have no idea. You are Chair of this organisation and you have no idea. This is your flagship policy and you have no idea.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I take it that rant means you do not have a proper answer to my question or to the headmaster or my constituents?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Oh dear, I am coming in on the same issue. Can I say I think that hundreds of thousands of families have benefited from this. It is incredibly welcome across London and I am very grateful to TfL who have been very responsive in aligning local bus timetables to the closing hours of schools, which has helped the problem. However, over the years I have been watching my bus casework change ' actually diminish. To begin with, five years ago the pressure was about not enough buses, unreliability and inaccessibility. Then there was a phase when a lot of complaints...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Oh, for God's sake! Are you totally paranoid?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

hould London fare-payers be subsidising people from outside London to have these passes? Yes or no?