• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

The question is about the deficit in the field of London-wide public health. Would you agree that the current concerns about the Asian flu ' the bird flu ' is an issue for London-wide public health, and that you made a good start back in March by reserving antiviral drugs and talking about the production of a strategy? Would you agree that it is now overdue for the production of a strategy to prevent any problems with this threat?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Do you not think you have gone too far with the £3 Tube fare for one stop, which is actually more expensive than using a black cab? Is that not going to encourage people not to use the Tube?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Mine is not converted yet. Is this in your announcement?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

The people using cash are those who are not the regular users; they are people who suddenly have to visit a sick relative, or go to a hospital or dentist. The poor people are now going to be really hammered. What are you going to do about that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

However, then there are the elderly people needing to get to special appointments and hospitals; can you clarify whether these Freedom Pass holders are allowed to obtain Oyster cards for travel before 9.30 in the morning?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

However, you are predicting that this vision is not going to happen. You are predicting, actually, that people are going to continue to use cash and the Travelcard version because that is where you are going to get your extra revenue. You cannot have your cake and eat it. What are you actually going to do? Go to a restaurant in Crystal Palace instead?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

This is about the Oyster Pre Pay and the Oyster Travelcard. As we know, only 5%, if that, of Oyster card holders use Pre Pay. I had always used my Oyster card, and it does not say on it whether it is Pre Pay or Travelcard. I think there is an education issue there. If you are saying that you are not expecting a reduction of revenue, does that not mean that this is going to hammer the 95% of Travelcard Oyster payers?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

I am afraid I think you would have a slightly oinky nose. Finally, what would you say to all those Londoners who did take the trouble to answer your consultation who say that their views were not only ignored, given that you are proceeding despite the fact that you only got 24%, but they now seem to be struck out of your records altogether?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Is it not funny that they have given you an even bigger thumbs down on the second consultation than they did to the first? I do not think that seems to be meeting your direction at all.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

I am not going to argue about the rights and wrongs of MORI. I am simply suggesting that you had already spent millions of pounds of Londoners' money on the official consultation, which you do appear to be airbrushing out of history and leaving this MORI poll as the only record of your consultation. I think people will believe this is a blatant attempt at concealing the extent of public hostility to the policy that you are adopting, by simply trying to write it out of history. What happened to your promises of this being the most open, accountable and...