• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can I also ask about the low-emission zone? That is going to the TfL board this month. I am just wondering when, if it is approved at that board meeting, consultation will take place.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Mr Mayor, can I refer back to the London Borough of Bromley. Will you accept that perhaps the way to deal with this situation is not to take out an expensive and high-profile court case, which will just drive individuals into entrenched positions, but to adopt a much more persuasive and educated approach? I think that my dear friend, Joan Wykes, who is such a devoted, doughty champion of the people of Bromley, will love nothing more than being attacked continually and publicly by you. Several other good friends and colleagues in Bromley will also enjoy the experience. The more...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

You call it a `subsidy.- I think I might want to call it a grant, but we always get some funding from central Government towards policing in London, and particularly the special payment for national and counter-terrorism and so on. Nevertheless, you have no specific commitment or indication that there will be a commitment towards the funding of the roll out of the Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

If I told you that the information given to the budget and overtime review group of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) is in conflict with what you have just said today, how would you react?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Yes, London will welcome the roll out of PCSOs to the wards in the neighbourhoods which currently do not have them. Indeed, there is a certain tension between wards which have PCSOs and those that do not. Based on historical costs, to roll out the next 368 wards, I believe it is, it will cost £120 million. Is this going to be the first call on your precept?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Probably all of us with experience of Safer Neighbourhood Teams would accept that the single most important component of them is the sergeant, and they succeed or fail largely on the personal qualities of the sergeant in the Safer Neighbourhood Team. Have you discussed with the Commissioner how confident he is that in the accelerated roll out, they will be able to recruit and train the right sort of sergeant, if I can use that expression? There are some very good sergeants who are very good, but just not personally suited to leading a Safer Neighbourhood Team. Can we be...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

One other thing: I wonder if you have been able to establish this with Sir Ian (Blair). Do we understand that no police officers currently on frontline duties will be moved into the Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can I draw us back, Chair and Mayor, to the rather less philosophical world of the Safer Neighbourhood Teams, and just point out, Mr Mayor, you allowed yourself to be led by the Conservative group into talking only about the roll out of PCSOs. We are actually talking about the roll out of Safer Neighbourhood Teams, and the standard Safer Neighbourhood Team includes two PCs, not one, as Bob Neill was saying. Any variation is and ought to be a matter for the Borough Commander. Did I understand you, though, to say in your answers to Richard Barnes not only...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Have your plans for a low-emission zone been affected by the current fuel shortages?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I absolutely welcome that things are moving. What I do not understand is what has changed now, compared to last year and the year before and all the feasibility studies. Have you just given up on the Government, then?