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

Given that this person was a member of the European Social Forum (ESF) organising committee ' the organisation which had generated enormous controversy ' do you think it wise to go through a single tender process when awarding a contract to someone who had been connected with such a controversial event?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Okay, well, I want to ask you about your job as emperor of this grant empire. Do you think you are likely to remember a specific grant?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can you not give me a global figure? Is it 100? Is it 1,000? Is it 10,000?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I am pleased to hear you say this, because, of course, he is the policy adviser on grants to organisations of this kind. Can I draw your attention, please, to their website. When you agreed, with the assistance of your adviser, to give these people an additional grant, they were putting on their website the following statement: `Act now. Blink' ' which is what they call their website ' `is urging its readers to support Ken Livingstone by lobbying the Standards Board for England.' Would you not say that was porkbarrelling of the worst kind? You give them money, so...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

How could we pursue manufacturers of cars and have them taking some responsibilities? It is always clear to me what types of cars they are, and maybe that is the way to go in the long term, rather than trying to expect the public sector always to pick up the burden on this front.

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

That active support will be very welcome, because everybody ' including Home Office ministers ' praise the scheme, and yet the Home Office seems hell-bent on ending the funding, at considerable cost. Is this not actually a kind of microcosm example of the bizarre funding arrangements we have? A £6-£7 million a year scheme is bringing into the licensing authority £20-£30 million, is saving the Fire Brigade £4-£5 million, is saving the MPS considerable amounts ' unquantified, but it is estimated up to half of untaxed vehicles are involved in criminal activities - so there is a huge benefit to...

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

That will come as a relief to London council tax and fare payers. What is the mechanism that you have in place to prevent people from outside London applying and using these passes?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Good morning. The bad news is that if you try the website first, and if you happen to live in Sutton and you go to the Post Office to apply for your free travel, you will almost certainly find that you will not be able to get your Oyster Card, if you are 14 or 15, because there is a shortage. Therefore, you will not be able to get a free pass with your Oyster Card. They say that they order the cards, but do not get near as many as they need, and we are told that they receive...

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

Finally, Mr Mayor, we attempted to apply for a ticket using the form on the website yesterday, and we were told by TfL that it is not accepting the form on the website, and you should go to the Post Office to get a form. Is this not a hopeless shambles?

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

You say that your work with the MPS on this is being finalised. When is a procedure going to be in place to deal with that situation?